_ Court Interpreter Written Exam - Legal Glossary (E-G)
Questions with CORRECT Answers (Grade A+)
Question 1:
ELEMENTS OF A Specific factors that define a crime which the prosecution
CRIME reasonable doubt in order to obtain a conviction.
Answer:
must prove beyond a
Question 2:
EMBEZZLE
Answer:
To willfully take or convert to one's own use, another's money or property, which
the wrongdoer initially acquired lawfully, because of some office, employment, or
some position of trust.
Question 3:
EMINENT DO- The power of the government
MAIN condemnation.
Answer:
to take private property for public use through
Question 4:
EN BANC
Answer:
All the judges of a court sitting together. Appellate courts can consist of a dozen or
more judges, but often they hear cases in panels of three judges. If a case is heard
or reheard by the full court, it is heard en banc.
Question 5:
ENHANCE
Answer:
To make greater in value, to increase.
,Question 6:
ENJOINING
Answer:
An order by the court telling a person to stop performing a specific act.
Question 7:
ENTER A GUILTY
PLEA
Answer:
The formal statement before the court that the accused admits committing the
criminal act.
Question 8:
ENTRAPMENT
Answer:
A defense to criminal charges alleging that agents of the government induced a
person to commit a crime he or she otherwise would not have committed.
Question 9:
EQUAL PROTEC-
TION
Answer:
The guarantee in the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution that all
persons be treated equally by the law.
Question 10:
EQUITABLE AC- An action which may be brought for the purpose of restraining
TION infliction of wrongs or injuries, and the prevention of threatened
Answer:
the threatened
illegal action.
Question 11:
, EQUITY
Answer:
Generally, justice or fairness. Historically, equity refers to a separate body of law
developed in England in reaction to the inability of the common-law courts, in their
strict adherence to rigid writs and forms of action, to consider or provide a remedy
for every injury. The king therefore established the court of chancery to do justice
The principle of this system of law is that equity will find a way to achieve a lawful
result when legal procedure is inadequate. Equity and law courts are now merged
in most jurisdictions.
Question 12:
ESCHEAT (ES-
CHET)
Answer:
The process by which a deceased person's property goes to the state if no heir can
be found.
Question 13:
ESCROW
Answer:
Money or a written instrument such as a deed that, by agreement between two
parties, is held by a neutral third party (held in escrow) until all conditions of the
agreement are met.
Question 14:
ESTATE
Answer:
An estate consists of personal property (car, household items, and other tangible
items), real property, and intangible property, such as stock certificates and bank
accounts, owned in the individual name of a person at the time of the person's
death. It does not include life insurance proceeds (unless the estate was made the
beneficiary) or other assets that pass outside the estate (like joint tenancy assets).
Question 15:
ESTATE TAX
Questions with CORRECT Answers (Grade A+)
Question 1:
ELEMENTS OF A Specific factors that define a crime which the prosecution
CRIME reasonable doubt in order to obtain a conviction.
Answer:
must prove beyond a
Question 2:
EMBEZZLE
Answer:
To willfully take or convert to one's own use, another's money or property, which
the wrongdoer initially acquired lawfully, because of some office, employment, or
some position of trust.
Question 3:
EMINENT DO- The power of the government
MAIN condemnation.
Answer:
to take private property for public use through
Question 4:
EN BANC
Answer:
All the judges of a court sitting together. Appellate courts can consist of a dozen or
more judges, but often they hear cases in panels of three judges. If a case is heard
or reheard by the full court, it is heard en banc.
Question 5:
ENHANCE
Answer:
To make greater in value, to increase.
,Question 6:
ENJOINING
Answer:
An order by the court telling a person to stop performing a specific act.
Question 7:
ENTER A GUILTY
PLEA
Answer:
The formal statement before the court that the accused admits committing the
criminal act.
Question 8:
ENTRAPMENT
Answer:
A defense to criminal charges alleging that agents of the government induced a
person to commit a crime he or she otherwise would not have committed.
Question 9:
EQUAL PROTEC-
TION
Answer:
The guarantee in the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution that all
persons be treated equally by the law.
Question 10:
EQUITABLE AC- An action which may be brought for the purpose of restraining
TION infliction of wrongs or injuries, and the prevention of threatened
Answer:
the threatened
illegal action.
Question 11:
, EQUITY
Answer:
Generally, justice or fairness. Historically, equity refers to a separate body of law
developed in England in reaction to the inability of the common-law courts, in their
strict adherence to rigid writs and forms of action, to consider or provide a remedy
for every injury. The king therefore established the court of chancery to do justice
The principle of this system of law is that equity will find a way to achieve a lawful
result when legal procedure is inadequate. Equity and law courts are now merged
in most jurisdictions.
Question 12:
ESCHEAT (ES-
CHET)
Answer:
The process by which a deceased person's property goes to the state if no heir can
be found.
Question 13:
ESCROW
Answer:
Money or a written instrument such as a deed that, by agreement between two
parties, is held by a neutral third party (held in escrow) until all conditions of the
agreement are met.
Question 14:
ESTATE
Answer:
An estate consists of personal property (car, household items, and other tangible
items), real property, and intangible property, such as stock certificates and bank
accounts, owned in the individual name of a person at the time of the person's
death. It does not include life insurance proceeds (unless the estate was made the
beneficiary) or other assets that pass outside the estate (like joint tenancy assets).
Question 15:
ESTATE TAX
