Abuse: offense when someone commits exercises physical or mental violence against persons with whom he lives.

Acquittal: instrument which puts an end to a lawsuit, a lawsuit or is declared not guilty a defendant.

Administrative law: court order that deals with all cases involving the administration.

Albacea: person designated by the deceased to enforce what is stated in the will.

Allegation: letter in which counsel provides the reasons for the innocence of his client.

Appeal: challenge or complaint to try to correct a judgment from the grounds. Resource that is presented before a court or authority to make a decision to change, judgment or decision issued by the same body.

Assault: crime in the act against the integrity of another person.

Attorney: representative to the justice of a third party. It is able to receive notices and perform actions on their behalf.

Auto: court decision that is issued in cases where there is no need for judgment.

Bail: one that is given to a detainee pending why he has been accused.

Challenge: action by which presents an action contrary to a decision issued by a judge.

Citation: notification that someone summons to appear in any judicial or administrative act.

Civil law: court order that deals with the private law, ie relationships with individuals and their property with others.

Claim: legal claim against someone who is issued in order to initiate a lawsuit.

Compensation: someone who receives compensation in exchange for the damage it has suffered.

Complaint: a public statement made against the law before judicial authorities or police. Formal letter to be submitted to a court with the assistance of counsel and the prosecutor. It began criminal proceedings against someone and who will be brought the prosecution.

Contempt: crime he committed when someone disobeys an insult or exercising authority as such.

Crime: action or omission that is conscious of making or negligently.

Criminal Law: established set of rules which relate to the State's ability to impose penalties on citizens who have committed crimes or misdemeanors.

Embargo: withholding or deprivation of the property of a person. This is done in order of a judicial or administrative authority.

Events of conciliation: meeting of the two sides of a case before a judge in order to avoid trial.

Expert: person with a certain knowledge that should declare a judgment on matters related to their specialty.

Expropriation: deprivation of the property of any well that usually carries out the administration in return for compensation or compensation.

Force majeure: cause that justifies the failure of something to be unexpected and not depend on the willingness of the person to whom it happens.

Forensic: medical specialist to make justice its responsibility to clarify or resolve medical aspects related to legal processes. They are officials from the Ministry of Justice.

Freedom provisional: granted to a defendant in a criminal case, while it is processed. They must place certain circumstances, in addition to the penalty for the offense is minor.

Genocide: murder of part or all of the population of a place for political, religious, cultural or ethnic backgrounds.

Homicide: crime that is committed to kill someone without treachery or ensañamiento.

Immunity parliamentary: privilege that have senators and deputies for which they may not be arrested in the cases indicate the law.

Improving a legacy: part added that someone receives an inheritance, in addition to be granted by law because of kinship.

Inheritance: property of a person moving from a legally owned by one or more other after the death of the owner.

Injuria: said or done in the disgrace that someone.

Instance: document to be filed with any public body in order to solicit something.

Judge referee: person appointed by the parties to decide on their dispute in accordance with the laws. Must be a lawyer but does not have to be on a formal court.

Judge: person with the power to prosecute and sentence in accordance with the rules and laws in place beforehand. They are formally appointed after approving an opposition.

Judgment: decision issued by a judge or court. Solution to everything raised in the lawsuit.

Lawyer: law degree making the defense and advising his client to justice.

Litigation: judicial process between two or more persons.

Missing: voluntary fact that the law punished with minor penalties.

Parole: which gets a prisoner for good behavior before the end of his sentence. The judge ruled occur when certain circumstances.

Parricide: murder of a close relative, ascending or descending own or by the spouse.

Penalty: a judge imposes punishment for someone who committed a felony or misdemeanor, based always on the Penal Code.

Powers: power that is about something or someone.

Probation: measure issued by a court or other body with authority to order someone to monitor.

Prosecutor: attorney representing the state and makes the accusation in court.

Raids on home: crime that involves entering a house or property of others without consent.

Ruling: judgment of a court in which conviction or absolve the accused.

Sheriff: official lower justice to be performed actions that are ordered by the court.

Testament: document by which a person determines who will be the owners of their property once they die.

Tutor: person in charge of caring for another, and with legal power over it.

Usucapion: acquisition of a property for having made use of it on a continuous basis for a certain time and under the circumstances and conditions specified by law.

Usufruct: law by which a person can use the property of another, but can not sell or deteriorarlos.

Witness: who must testify before the judge.