Civil Litigation

Failure to take a required step in a lawsuit.

• Judgment

• Discovery

• Default

• Motion

A person who brings a lawsuit against another person is called _________________.

The formal and informal exchange of information between two sides in a lawsuit. Two types are interrogatories and depositions.

• Motion

• Discovery

• Judgment

• Writ of Execution

The process of deciding a case, which occurs if the dispute is not resolved by pleadings, pretrial motions, or settlement. Usually takes place in open court, and may be followed by a judgment, an appeal, and so on. 

• Civil Litigation

• Civil Procedure

• Trial

• Criminal Law

Forms of ADR (Alternative dispute resolution).

• Negotiation

• Settlement

• Mediation

• Arbitration

• All the above

The rules of carrying on a civil lawsuit or a criminal case as opposed to substantive law.

• Substantive Law

• Criminal Law

• Civil Law

• Procedural Law

Laws dealing with private disputes between parties.

• Civil Laws

• Civil Procedure

• Substantive Law

• Procedural Law

The procedure by which a person accused of a crime is brought to trial and given punishment.

• Criminal Procedure

• Civil Law

• Criminal Law

• Procedural Law

Having to do with the law of crimes and illegal conduct.

• Civil Law

• Criminal Procedure

• Criminal Law

• Substantive Law

The first main paper filed in civil lawsuit.

• Complaint

• Petition

• Answer

• Default

A request that a judge make a ruling or take some other action, granted or denied by a judge is called ____________.

The  person who helps settle a dispute is called _______________.

The basic law of rights and duties as opposed to procedural law.

• Criminal Law

• Substantive Law

• Procedural Law

• Civil Law

The circuit court has ______jurisdiction in cases appealed from the lower district courts

• Appellate

• Original

The first pleading by the defendant in a lawsuit is called a _____________.

An out-of-court process in which a neutral party, known as an ____________, hears both sides of the dispute and then makes a decision.

The process of resolving private disputes through the court system.

• Civil Litigation

• Civil Procedure

• Civil Law

• Procedural Law

Rules that are adopted by individual courts and applies in all court systems are called local rules of court. 

• True

• False

A judge's order requiring that something be done outside the courtroom or authorizing it to be done.

• Writ of execution

• ADR

• Motion

• Judgment

Persuassive authority is called ____________________.

Books containg samples forms for legal professionals to follow in preparing pleadings and other documents. This is it called _______________.

A written request to a court asking that it take a particular action is called a ________________.

Books that contain the actual law is called _____________.

The law and rules that govern how noncriminal lawsuits are handled by the individuals involved and by the court.

• Civil Law

• Civil Procedure

• Procedural Law

• Substantive Law