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Home » Legal

Actions: Legal Trial

Parent Term

  • Legal

Sibling Terms

  • Arraign
  • Arrest
  • Bailing out
  • Bonding
  • Calling police
  • Charge/accuse
  • Claim
  • Confession
  • Counsel
  • Defending
  • Deliberating
  • Discharging jury
  • Dismissing a case
  • Divorce
  • Exhumation order
  • Handcuffing
  • Hearing
  • Locking up
  • Marriage
  • Obstructing justice / law enforcement officer
  • Pardon
  • Pronouncing sentence
  • Recess
  • Record keeping
  • Release of prisoner
  • Remarriage
  • Standing guard
  • Summation
  • Testifying
  • Warrant
  • Will

Tagged Events

Intruder in the Dust, 57 (Event)
Environment: Place›Jail
Actions: Legal›Counsel | Legal›Trial | Violent›Lynch mob
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Requiem for a Nun, 121 (Event)
Environment: Public›Courtroom
Actions: Emotional›Apathy | Legal›Testifying | Legal›Trial | Mental›Remembering | Physical›Waiting | Verbal›Self-justifying
Cultural Issues: Law›Trial
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister | Familial›Father-daughter
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intertextual | Recurring Episodes›Temple testifying
Requiem for a Nun, 36 (Event)
Environment: Public›Courthouse
Actions: Legal›Trial | Verbal›Announcing
Cultural Issues: Law›Legal authority
The Town, 177 (Event)
Environment: Public›Courtroom
Actions: Legal›Pronouncing sentence | Legal›Trial | Verbal›Denial
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Bootlegging | Class›Snopesism
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses