Law Vocabulary Chapter 4 (Ryan Cordingley, 2-2)

Question 1

Abrogate

Answer 1

repeal or do away with (a law, right, or formal agreement).

Question 2

Ameliorate

Answer 2

make (something bad or unsatisfactory) better.

Question 3

Capital offense

Answer 3

any legal charge that is punishable by the death penalty

Question 4

Derogate

Answer 4

The partial repeal of a law, in other words not to fully change it but just taking off some restrictions

Question 5

Dissemination

Answer 5

to spread information

Question 6

Entrench

Answer 6

establish something so intensely that it is very hard to change

Question 7

Extradition

Answer 7

The transfer of an accused from one state or country to another state or country that seeks to place the accused on trial.

Question 8

Franchise

Answer 8

A special privilege to do certain things that is conferred by government on an individual or a corporation and which does not belong to citizens generally of common right

Question 9

Freedom

Answer 9

It is the ability to live and act without fear of intervention by the govenrment

Question 10

Inalienable rights

Answer 10

That which is inalienable cannot be bought, sold, or transferred from one individual to another.

Question 11

Interveners

Answer 11

n law, intervention is a procedure to allow a nonparty, called intervenor (also spelled intervener) to join ongoing litigation,

Question 12

Invoke

Answer 12

to put a law into use/action

Question 13

Not withstanding clause

Answer 13

section 33 of the Canadian charter of rights and freedoms. which states:Section 33.

(1) Parliament or the legislature of a province may expressly declare in an Act of Parliament or of the legislature, as the case may be, that the Act or a provision thereof shall operate notwithstanding a provision included in section 2 or sections 7 to 15.
(2) An Act or a provision of an Act in respect of which a declaration made under this section is in effect shall have such operation as it would have but for the provision of this Charter referred to in the declaration.
(3) A declaration made under subsection (1) shall cease to have effect five years after it comes into force or on such earlier date as may be specified in the declaration.
(4) Parliament or the legislature of a province may re-enact a declaration made under subsection (1).
(5) Subsection (3) applies in respect of a re-enactment made under subsection (4).

Question 14

Override

Answer 14

to prevail over

Question 15

Right

Answer 15

Rights are legal, social, or ethical principles of freedom or entitlement; that is, rights are the fundamental normative rules about what is allowed of people or owed to people, according to some legal system, social convention, or ethical theory.