Chapter 5: law, illegality
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16 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 litigation | a lawsuit, or the act of carrying on a suit in a law court |
| commute | to change a heavy, severe punishment or obligation to a lighter one |
| surveillance | a close watch or observation |
| extradite | to get from or deliver to authorities of another state or country a person wanted in connection to a crime |
| gendarme | an armed or military policeman |
| posse | a group of men armed with legal authority |
| turnkey | a jailer, or a person in charge of the keys of a prison |
| alibi | a claim that the accused was elsewhere at the time of a crime |
| illicit | improper, or forbidden by law or custom |
| poach | to trespass, or to hunt or catch illegally |
| abscond | to steal off or run away secretly |
| purloin | to steal |
| extort | to get something from a prison by threats, violence or illegal force |
| rapine | pillage, plunder, or the seizing and carrying off of other people's property by force |
| brigand | a bandit or robber, usually a member of a band |
| regicide | the murder of a king; or one who kills a king |
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