Legal Flashcards by Ainara Barreiro Escobar

Secretly recording or filming the conversations and activities of individuals or organizations

bugging

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Attacking someone in a public place to get money or valuables.

mugging

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Betraying your country (by passing state secrets to another country, for example)

treason

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Copying official documents

forgery

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Deliberately setting fire to a building.

arson

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Killing someone, but when it wasn’t your intention to do so

manslaughter

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Getting information from another country by spying.

treason

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Passing goods illegally from one country to another

smuggling

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Killing someone

murder

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Sending letters threatening to reveal compromising information unless you are paid off.

blackmail

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Sexually attacking a woman.

rape

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Stealing from a shop, office or bank

robbery

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Taking control of an aeroplane, or another vehicle of public transport

hijacking

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Taking someone, and then demanding money for their release

kidnapping

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To take fraudulently for one’s own use money or property placed in your care

fraud / embezzlement

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Stealing things from people’s houses

burglary

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Stealing a vehicle and driving it dangerously for fun

joyriding

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To take advantage of a riot or disaster to enter properties and steal things.

looting

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to do something illegal or something that is considered wrong:

commit

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ask

request

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to make a formal statement saying that someone is accused of a crime

charge sb with sth/doing sth

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bajo fianza

on bail

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detenido, preso

in custody
(placed in, taken into)

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tribunal

court

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defensa

defence

to make a statement of what you believe to be true, especially in support of something or someone or when someone has been accused in a law court

plead

testigo

witness call witnesses to give evidence

esperar a juicio

await trial

estar (mantenido) en prisión

be kept in prison

acusación (court case against sb)

prosecution

evidencias

evidence (uncountable)

veredicto

verdict the jury retires to consider the verdict

absolver (to decide officially in a law court that someone is not guilty of a particular crime)

acquit acquit sb be acquitted of sth

condenar- to decide officially in a law court that someone is guilty of a crime

convict sb of

culpable

guilty find sb guilty

veredicto, pena

sentence the judge passes sentence

multa

fine impose a fine

delincuente, criminal

offender

mandar a prisión

send sb to prison

crimen

crime

acusado

defendant accused

change, edit

interfere with

invalidar, anular

quash

but

notwithstanding

a punishment for doing something that is against a law

penalty

the power given to the police to search someone if they have a good reason to believe they are carrying drugs, a weapon, or stolen property, or an occasion when someone is searched

stop and search carry out "stop and search" checks

cooperar

liaise with

abogado

lawyer, solicitor, barrister

deal with, manage

cope

start suddenly, arise

break out

deadly

fatal

dark, cheerless

gloomy

strain, ill feeling

tension

give rise to, arouse, generate

spur

condition, situation

circumstance

member of an unofficial crime-fighting group

vigilante

stimulate, motivate

provoke

measure intended to prevent sb/sth from being harmed.

safeguards (n+v)

To make an incorrect or untrue statement with intent to deceive

to falsely state

Any article made or adapted for use for causing injury

offensive weapon

Any weapon which expels a projectile by the action of an explosive

firearm

to restrict / deprive of liberty (esp. of physical movement)

restrain

dishonestly receiving, retaining or disposing of stolen items

handle stolen goods

A woman’s surname before marriage

maiden name

amonestación -a formal warning given to a person suspected or accused of an offence

caution (v+n)

claim or assert something as true

allege make an allegation

violation of or failure to perform an obligation created by a promise or law

breach (v+n)

a challenge to a previous legal determination

appeal (v+n)

Operator

person who carries out a task

formal security to assure that a person will pay a debt (garantía)

pledge

in accordance with, following

pursuant to

immediately, straight away

forthwith

any time sb wants or needs sth

upon demand

state a fact or believe strongly

assert

due to, on account of, as a consequence of

by reason of

lawyer at higher levels of court

barrister

the most senior public prosecutor in England and Wales, head of the Crown Prosecution Service.

DPP Director of Public Prosecutions

volunteers who hear cases in courts in their community

magistrate

The party who initiates a lawsuit (also known as an action) before a court demandante

plaintiff

proceso, pleito, litigio

lawsuit

member of the legal profession qualified to deal with conveyancing, the drawing up of wills, and other legal matters.

Procurator / Fiscal

compensation daños y perjuicios

damages

take legal action against demandar

sue

individual or group in a legal dispute

party

cadena perpetua

Life imprisonment

ban on a person from going to certain areas

ASBO (anti-social behaviour order)