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Business Law Test
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. A warrant authorizing law enforcement officials to search for objects or people involved in the commission of a crime and to produce them in court
Strict product liability
Appellee
Equal protection clause
Search warrant
2. (civil law) a law established by following earlier judicial decisions
Case law
Petitioner
Closing argument
When constitutional lawz apply
3. A school of legal thought that views the law as a tool for promoting justice in society.
Sociological school
Police powers
Appellant
diversity of citizenship
4. A common law writ issued by a superior court to one of inferior jurisdiction demanding the record of a particular case
First Amendment
Independent regulatory agencies
Writ of certiorari
Seventh Amendment
5. The question of whether an issue lies within the authority and jurisdiction of the arbitrator. A matter may be declared non-arbitrable either because certain steps - timetables and procedures have not been followed prior to submitting it to arbitrati
Checks and balances
Probable cause
Punitive damages
Arbitrability
6. To confirm priestly authority upon
ordinaces
Online dispute resolution
Natural law
Commerce clause
7. Logical formula consisting of a major premise - a minor premise and a conclusion; deceptive or specious argument
Tenth Amendment
Syllogism
establishment clause
Award
8. Rules governing the admissibility of evidence in trial courts.
Stages in an A Typical Lawsuit
Appellee
Writ of execution
Rules of evidence
9. Law concerned with public wrongs against society
Criminal law
Filtering software
Cyberlaw
Commerce clause
10. A rule of evidence whereby the negligence of an alleged wrongdoer can be inferred from the fact that the accident happened
Justicable controversy
Sociological school
Res ipsa loquitur
Filtering software
11. A clause in a contract providing for arbitration of disputes arising under the contract
Arbitration clause
Rule of four
positive law
Bankruptcy courts
12. Set of books containing published court decisions
Counterclaim
Public Policy
Reporters
Alternative dispute resolution
13. The body of conventional - or written - law of a particular society at a particular point in time.
positive law
Counterclaim
Corporate social responsibility
Small Claims courts
14. Judges must abide by precedents in thier jurisdictions.
Justicable controversy
Case Precedents and the doctrine of stare decisis
due proccess clause
Reporters
15. A final judgment for one side in a lawsuit without trial when a judge finds based on pleadings - affidavits - and depositions that there is no genuine factual issue in the lawsuit
uniform laws
Sixth Amendment
Motion for judgement on the pleadings
First Amendment
16. Is the cause that immediately and directly results in a specific event. if a person can eleminate any one of the 4 elemants - the lawsuit will not be successful.
Proximate cause
Remedies of Law
uniform laws
Binding authority
17. A reference to or a quotation from an authority
citation
Administrative agency
Proximate cause
Bill of Rights
18. An ethical principle that holds that you should never take any action that infringes on others; agreed-upon rights
Trespass to land
Syllogism
Principle of rights
Seventh Amendment
19. The moral principle that behavior should be determined by duty - A concept developed by the philosopher Immanuel Kant as an ethical guideline for behavior. In deciding whether an action is right or wrong a person should evaluate the action in terms o
Rejoinder
Trespass to personal property
law
Categorical imperative
20. State statute that permits a state to obtain personal jurisdiction over nonresident defendants
Res ipsa loquitur
Case law
Long arm statue
Torts(Wrongs)
21. An example that is used to justify similar occurrences at a later time
Justicable controversy
Precedent
Symbolic speech
Public Policy
22. (law) negligence allocated between the plaintiff and the defendant with a corresponding reduction in damages paid to the plaintiff
Award
Independent regulatory agencies
Remedies
Comparative negligence
23. Jury selection process of questioning prospective jurors - to ascertain their qualifications and determine any basis for challenge.
Civil Law
jurisprudence
voir dire
Principle of rights
24. 1. That the defendant owed a duty of care to the plaintiff. 2. The the defendant breached that duty. 3. That the defendant's breach caused the plaintiff's injury. 4. That the defendants breach caused the plaintiff's injury and that injury was forseea
Negligence
Burden of proof
Punitive damages
positive law
25. A computer program that is designed to block access to certain Web sites based on their content. The software blocks the retrieval of a site whose URL or key words are on a list within the program.
Federal question
Probable cause
Small Claims courts
Filtering software
26. Discussion with a view to reaching agreement; talking about a conflict where both parties give and take to reach a resolution - without attorneys.
Cyber torts
Federal form of government
Negotiation
Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
27. A motion asserting that the trial was so fundamentally flawed (because of error - newly discovered evidence - prejudice - or another reason) that a new trial is necessary to prevent a miscarriage of justice.
Motion for a new trial
Slander of title
Closing argument
Rule of four
28. Federal regulatory agencies that are independent - thus not fully under the power of the president. Ex. Federal Trade Commission - Securities and Exchange Commission.
Fifth Amendment
due proccess clause
Independent regulatory agencies
Probate courts
29. The act of delivering a writ or summons upon someone
citation
Res ipsa loquitur
Motion for judgement as a matter of law
Service of process
30. A wrongful act that the actor had no right to do
Service of process
Constitutional Law
Civil Law
Malpractice
31. An amendment to the Constitution of the United States guaranteeing the right of free expression
Civil Law
Counterclaim
First Amendment
Filtering software
32. (law) a pleading by the defendant in reply to a plaintiff's surrejoinder
Affirmative defense
law
Rebuttal
ordinaces
33. An economically injurious falsehood made about another's product or property; a general term for torts that are more specifically referred to as slander of quality or slander of title.
Good samaritan statues
Disparagement of property
Case law
Legal reasoning
34. Jurisdiction based upon claims against a person - in contrast to jurisdiction over the person's property
in personam jurisdiction
Relevant evidence
Probable cause
Rules of evidence
35. The body of rules and regulations and orders and decisions created by administrative agencies of government
Ninth Amendment
Administrative law
Affirmative defense
Hearsay
36. Precedents are determined under stare decisis. Courts of law and courts or equity have been combined.
Service of process
Question of fact
importance of common law
Equal protection clause
37. The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution - nor prohibited by it to the states - are reserved to the states respectively - or to the people.
Tenth Amendment
Long arm statue
Rejoinder
Trespass to land
38. Use deductive reasoning to identify relevant legal rules - applying those rules to to the facts of the case and drawing a conclusion.
Stare Decisis and legal Reasoning
Slander of title
Respondent
Answer
39. Authority shared by both federal and state courts
Direct examination
Concurrent Jurisdiction
Relevant evidence
Cases on point
40. Negate the claim of negligence(assumption of risk - superceding intervening clause)
Independent regulatory agencies
Arbitrability
Absolute bar
Courts of law
41. The idea that the goal of society should be the greatest happiness for the greatest number of its citizens
tilitarinism
Good samaritan statues
Cases on point
Legal and Equitable Remedies
42. (law) behavior by the plaintiff that contributes to the harm resulting from the defendant's negligence
breaches
Stages in an A Typical Lawsuit
abnormally dangerous
Contributory negligence
43. (civil law) the first pleading of the plaintiff setting out the facts on which the claim for relief is based
Complaint
Pleadings
Good samaritan statues
Common law
44. A school of legal thought centered on the assumption that there is no law higher then the laws created by the government. Laws must be obeyed - even if they are unjust - to prevent anarchy.
Equitable maxims
Statues of limitation
Origins Of Common Law
positivist school
45. An order to appear in person at a given place and time
Remedies
Respondent Superior
Summons
Appellant
46. In order to bring a lawsuit before a court a party must have a sufficient 'stake' in a matter to justify seeking relief through the court system
State and Federal Court Systems
Standing to sue
Res ipsa loquitur
Writ of certiorari
47. The clause in the Constitution (Article I - Section 8 - Clause 1) that gives Congress the power to regulate all business activities that cross state lines or affect more than one state or other nations.
Commerce clause
Ninth Amendment
positive law
Civil Law
48. Clause in the Constitution (Article IV - Section 1) requiring each state to recognize the civil judgments rendered by the courts of the other states and to accept their public records and acts as valid
Full faith and credit clause
Constitutional Law
Trade libel
Respondent
49. An argument made after the plaintiff and defendant have rested their cases. Closing arguments are made prior to the jury charges.
Closing argument
Disparagement of property
When constitutional lawz apply
Sixth Amendment
50. Enforcable rules governing relationships among individuals and between individuals and thier society.
law
Bankruptcy courts
Statues of limitation
Damages