C 17 - The Law & the Courts

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Across

  1. The name of the legal system that assumes that law is an instrument of government rather than something that exists separate from it and should be based more on legislative statutes than case-law precedents. (two words) (8)
  2. In the U.S., the type of courts in which judges serve for fixed terms. (11)
  3. The name of the legal system that is based on the assumption that there exists a “natural law” that it is sometimes the task of judges to discover and apply in addition to statutes, constitutional provisions, and legal precedents. (two words) (8)
  4. A Middle-Eastern Arab country that uses Sharia as the basis of its legal system. (two words) (12)
  5. The rules and principles laid down by government to resolve conflicts. (3)
  6. The standard of proof required to prove guilt in criminal cases in the Anglo-Saxon case-law legal system. ( three words) (23)

Down

  1. The standard of proof in civil cases in Anglo-Saxon case law systems. (three words) (25)
  2. In the U.S., the type of courts in which judges serve for life (unless they retire or are impeached and convicted). (14)
  3. The type of courts that decide questions of law & evidence. (5)
  4. Islamic law based on the Qur'an (Koran) and used as part of the legal systems of Islamic states. (6)
  5. The name of a political and economic community with supranational and intergovernmental features; it is composed of twenty-seven member states primarily located in Europe. (two words) (14)
  6. The standard of proof in code-law criminal cases. (two words) (13)
  7. A Middle-Eastern Persian country that uses Sharia as the basis of its legal system. (4)
  8. The Latin phrase that translates "produce the body," that in case-law systems guarantees that criminal suspects can petition a judge to order police officials to show reasonable grounds to charge the suspect with a crime or let them go. (two words) (13)
  9. The type of courts that review questions of law (but not evidence). (9)


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