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You don't actually need to "press" a criminal charge to file a civil lawsuit for the parallel tort. If you've got the evidence, you've got the evidence.
Tort is such a silly word for a legal term.
As if the rest of them aren't?
Law is a profession where people dress up in funny clothes (even powdered wigs, in some places!) and say pseudo-Latin at each other. The words aren't magical incantations, but they're close enough that sovcits think they are.
It is profoundly silly.
Uh, pretty sure it's not pseudo-Latin, it's just Latin. A lot of those terms date back to legal proceedings in ancient Rome.
Pretty sure we butcher the pronunciation, though. The Latin 'Caesar' was pronounced more like the German word 'Kaiser' than the modern 'Caesar salad,' for example.
Yeah, but calling it pseudo- is funnier.
Only if you pronounce it "sway-doe", rhymes with Play-Doh
Pronounce the p
I'm pretty sure attempted poisoning is one of those where the state presses charges on your behalf no matter what.
thanks Matt Lock.