LOUISIANA POST EXAMS SCRIPT LATEST
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Hearsay - ✔✔Evidence based on REPORTS BY OTHERS rather than on a witness'
own knowledge; generally inadmissible in court.
✔✔Homicide - ✔✔The killing of one human being by another.
✔✔Impeach - ✔✔To discredit. To question the veracity of a WITNESS.
✔✔Indict - ✔✔To accuse of crime, in WRITING, by a grand jury. Also called TRUE BILL
of Indictment.
✔✔Infancy - ✔✔One is under the STATUTORY age of adulthood.
✔✔Informant - ✔✔One who DISCREETLY furnishes information to the police.
✔✔Injunction - ✔✔An order by a court PROHIBITING a defendant from committing an
act which is injurious to the plaintiff.
✔✔Judicial Notice - ✔✔The rule that a court will accept certain things as common
knowledge without PROOF.
, ✔✔Jurisdiction - ✔✔The power of a court to hear and determine a matter.
✔✔Jurisprudence - ✔✔The PHILOSOPHY of law. The science which deals with the
principles of positive law and legal relations made by the courts.
✔✔Jury - ✔✔A certain number of persons, selected according to law, and sworn to
inquire of certain matters of face, and declare the truth upon EVIDENCE laid before
them.
✔✔Kleptomania - ✔✔A compulsion to STEAL an object regardless of its value or use.
✔✔Latent - ✔✔Lying DORMANT and hidden.
✔✔Malice - ✔✔An evil intent to vex, annoy or injure another, INTENTIONAL evil.
✔✔Mali Fides - ✔✔In bad faith.
✔✔Mandamus - ✔✔A writ which issues out of a superior court, directed to any person,
corporation or inferior court, requiring them to do some particular thing.
✔✔Manslaughter - ✔✔The unlawful killing of another human being WITHOUT MALICE.
It may be either with the intent to kill, upon a sudden passion or heat of blood, or without
the intent to kill, done while committing some unlawful act without due regard for others.
✔✔Masochism - ✔✔A sexual perversion in which on person derives pleasure from
PHYSICAL PAIN inflicted by another.
✔✔Mens Rea - ✔✔Criminal; literally; a guilty mind.
✔✔Misdemeanor - ✔✔Any crime not a FELONY. Usually a crime punishable by a fine
or imprisonment in the count/parish or other local jail, rather than to the state prison.
✔✔Mittimus - ✔✔A writ, issued from a court, directing an officer to convey the person
named therein, to jail or other place of confinement.
✔✔Modus Operandi - ✔✔METHOD OF OPERATION by criminals.
✔✔Motive - ✔✔The REASON for doing a certain thing; the motivating influence.
✔✔Municipal Court - ✔✔Courts whos territorial authority is CONFINED to the city or
municipality.
✔✔Murder - ✔✔Generally the unlawful killing of a human being by another with MALICE
aforethought, either expressed or implied. Defined statutorily in most states.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Hearsay - ✔✔Evidence based on REPORTS BY OTHERS rather than on a witness'
own knowledge; generally inadmissible in court.
✔✔Homicide - ✔✔The killing of one human being by another.
✔✔Impeach - ✔✔To discredit. To question the veracity of a WITNESS.
✔✔Indict - ✔✔To accuse of crime, in WRITING, by a grand jury. Also called TRUE BILL
of Indictment.
✔✔Infancy - ✔✔One is under the STATUTORY age of adulthood.
✔✔Informant - ✔✔One who DISCREETLY furnishes information to the police.
✔✔Injunction - ✔✔An order by a court PROHIBITING a defendant from committing an
act which is injurious to the plaintiff.
✔✔Judicial Notice - ✔✔The rule that a court will accept certain things as common
knowledge without PROOF.
, ✔✔Jurisdiction - ✔✔The power of a court to hear and determine a matter.
✔✔Jurisprudence - ✔✔The PHILOSOPHY of law. The science which deals with the
principles of positive law and legal relations made by the courts.
✔✔Jury - ✔✔A certain number of persons, selected according to law, and sworn to
inquire of certain matters of face, and declare the truth upon EVIDENCE laid before
them.
✔✔Kleptomania - ✔✔A compulsion to STEAL an object regardless of its value or use.
✔✔Latent - ✔✔Lying DORMANT and hidden.
✔✔Malice - ✔✔An evil intent to vex, annoy or injure another, INTENTIONAL evil.
✔✔Mali Fides - ✔✔In bad faith.
✔✔Mandamus - ✔✔A writ which issues out of a superior court, directed to any person,
corporation or inferior court, requiring them to do some particular thing.
✔✔Manslaughter - ✔✔The unlawful killing of another human being WITHOUT MALICE.
It may be either with the intent to kill, upon a sudden passion or heat of blood, or without
the intent to kill, done while committing some unlawful act without due regard for others.
✔✔Masochism - ✔✔A sexual perversion in which on person derives pleasure from
PHYSICAL PAIN inflicted by another.
✔✔Mens Rea - ✔✔Criminal; literally; a guilty mind.
✔✔Misdemeanor - ✔✔Any crime not a FELONY. Usually a crime punishable by a fine
or imprisonment in the count/parish or other local jail, rather than to the state prison.
✔✔Mittimus - ✔✔A writ, issued from a court, directing an officer to convey the person
named therein, to jail or other place of confinement.
✔✔Modus Operandi - ✔✔METHOD OF OPERATION by criminals.
✔✔Motive - ✔✔The REASON for doing a certain thing; the motivating influence.
✔✔Municipal Court - ✔✔Courts whos territorial authority is CONFINED to the city or
municipality.
✔✔Murder - ✔✔Generally the unlawful killing of a human being by another with MALICE
aforethought, either expressed or implied. Defined statutorily in most states.
