Criminal Code
a statute which purports or attempts to set out all prohibited or criminal
offences, and their various punishments
Criminal Conversation
criminal conversation: synonymous with
adultery
Criminal Harassment
unsolicited annoying, alarming or abusive conduct or words which are threatening
Criminal Law
body of law that deals with conduct considered so harmful to society as a whole
that it is prohibited by statute, prosecuted and punished by the government
Criminal Libel
a criminal offense; deliberate publication of defamatory lies which the
publisher knows to be false
Criminal Negligence
reckless disregard for the lives or safety of
other persons
Cross Examination
in trials, each party calls witnesses; ask questions of the other party's
witness(es) allowing considerably more latitude then when you question your own
witnesses (called an 'examination-in-chief
Cruelty
conduct that causes bodily or mental injury, or apprehension to such injury, to
a person or an animal, without legitimate purpose
Crumbling Skull Rule
a legal theory, companion to the thin skull rule, which limits a tort
defendant's exposure to a plaintiff's injuries to the plaintiff's condition at
the time of the tort
Cuius Est Solum Ejus Est Usque Ad Caelum
Latin, "who owns the land, owns down to the center of the earth and up to the
heavens"