1. What is civil law?
Civil law is a legal system inspired by roman law, the primary feature of which is that laws are written into a collection, codified, and not determined, as in comon law, by judges.
2. What is criminal Law?
Prosecution for an act that has been classified as a crime.
3. What is a plaintiff?
The person who initiates a lawsuit by filing a complaint.
4. What is a defendant?
Any party who is required to answer the complaint, of a plaintiff or pursuer in a civil lawsuit before a court of law.
5. Who files a suit?
The prosecuter.
6. What is a prosecutor?
The person who files the suit.
7. Who is the plaintiff in a criminal law?
The plaintiff is the party who starts a lawsuit.
8. What is meant by procedure?
A procedure is a specified series of actions or operations which have to be executed in the same manner in order to always obtain the same result under the same circumstances.
9. What is a defendant?
Any party who is required to answer the complaint, of a plaintiff of pursuer in a civil lawsuit before a court of law.
10. What is a civil trial?
A civil trial is generally held to settle a dispute between private parties.
11. Who or what is a judge?
A lead official who presides over a court of law.
12. What is a jury?
A jury is a group of law-abiding members of a community brought together to give an impartial judgment.
13. What is meant by innocent?
Not guilty of what he/she is being accused of.
14. What is meant by preponderance of the evidence?
The greater weight of the evidence required in a civil lawsuit for the trier of fact.
15. What is meant by absolute proof?
proof that the suspect is 100% guilty.
16. What is meant by a majority?
The largest group of people.
17. What is a tort?
Tort law is a body of law that addresses, and provides remedies for, civil wrongs not arising out of contractual obligations.
Civil law is a legal system inspired by roman law, the primary feature of which is that laws are written into a collection, codified, and not determined, as in comon law, by judges.
2. What is criminal Law?
Prosecution for an act that has been classified as a crime.
3. What is a plaintiff?
The person who initiates a lawsuit by filing a complaint.
4. What is a defendant?
Any party who is required to answer the complaint, of a plaintiff or pursuer in a civil lawsuit before a court of law.
5. Who files a suit?
The prosecuter.
6. What is a prosecutor?
The person who files the suit.
7. Who is the plaintiff in a criminal law?
The plaintiff is the party who starts a lawsuit.
8. What is meant by procedure?
A procedure is a specified series of actions or operations which have to be executed in the same manner in order to always obtain the same result under the same circumstances.
9. What is a defendant?
Any party who is required to answer the complaint, of a plaintiff of pursuer in a civil lawsuit before a court of law.
10. What is a civil trial?
A civil trial is generally held to settle a dispute between private parties.
11. Who or what is a judge?
A lead official who presides over a court of law.
12. What is a jury?
A jury is a group of law-abiding members of a community brought together to give an impartial judgment.
13. What is meant by innocent?
Not guilty of what he/she is being accused of.
14. What is meant by preponderance of the evidence?
The greater weight of the evidence required in a civil lawsuit for the trier of fact.
15. What is meant by absolute proof?
proof that the suspect is 100% guilty.
16. What is meant by a majority?
The largest group of people.
17. What is a tort?
Tort law is a body of law that addresses, and provides remedies for, civil wrongs not arising out of contractual obligations.