conduct that causes bodily or mental injury, or apprehension to such injury, to a person or an animal, without legitimate purpose
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
a criminal offense; deliberate publication of defamatory lies which the publisher knows to be false
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
unsolicited annoying, alarming or abusive conduct or words which are threatening
a statute which purports or attempts to set out all prohibited or criminal offences, and their various punishments