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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. Excessive bail shall not be required - nor excessive fines imposed - nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
Eighth Amendment
Courts of equity
First Amendment
Legal and Equitable Remedies
2. An order to appear in person at a given place and time
Summons
Bill of Rights
Motion
Federal form of government
3. Use deductive reasoning to identify relevant legal rules - applying those rules to to the facts of the case and drawing a conclusion.
Corporate social responsibility
ordinaces
Stare Decisis and legal Reasoning
Motion for judgement on the pleadings
4. (law) a pleading made by a defendant in response to the plaintiff's replication
Rejoinder
Answer
Privileges and and immunities clause
Proximate cause
5. Specific length of time an individual can sue for injury resulting from negligence
Statues of limitation
Respondent
Appellant
Summary jury trials
6. 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.
Legal and Equitable Remedies
Motion for judgement as a matter of law
citation
Commerce clause
7. The government may not house soldiers in private homes without consent of the owner
Reporters
Third Amendment
Res ipsa loquitur
Remedies of Law
8. Authority shared by both federal and state courts
Concurrent Jurisdiction
First Amendment
Malpractice
Motion for judgement as a matter of law
9. The constitutional amendment designed to protect individuals accused of crimes. It includes the right to counsel - the right to confront witnesses - and the right to a speedy and public trial.
Award
Sixth Amendment
Third Amendment
Symbolic speech
10. Law that involves the interpretation and application of the U.S. Constitution and state constitutions
in personam jurisdiction
Constitutional Law
Long arm statue
Commerce clause
11. Private proceeding in which each party to a dispute argues its position before the other side - and vice versa. A neutral third party may be present and act as an adviser if the parties fail to reach an agreement
Mini-trial
When constitutional lawz apply
positivist school
Petitioner
12. Nonverbal communication - such as burning a flag or wearing an armband. The Supreme Court has accorded some symbolic speech protection under the first amendment.
Brief
Long arm statue
uniform laws
Symbolic speech
13. Is strict liability hold a claim if the product or service in question is...
Business Ethics
Exclusive Jurisdiction
abnormally dangerous
Slander of title
14. An amendment to the Constitution of the United States guaranteeing the right of free expression
Natural law
First Amendment
State Jurisdiction
Slander of quality
15. A wrongful act that the actor had no right to do
Binding authority
Courts of law
Malpractice
Analogy
16. Courts that handle cases that involve less than $5000
Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
When constitutional lawz apply
Corporate social responsibility
Small Claims courts
17. The course of action the government takes in response to an issue or problem as deemed by widely held belief.
Arbitration clause
Alternative dispute resolution
Public Policy
Historical school
18. Contracts - Sales - Negotiable instruments - creditos rights - intellectual property - e-commerce - product liability - torts - agency - business organizations - professional liability - courts and court procedures.
Areas of Law that may affect business decision making
Natural law
State and Federal Court Systems
ordinaces
19. A major provider of arbitration services
Legal realism
Appellant
American Arbitration Association
Courts of law
20. The location where something takes place - esp. a trial
Common law
Venue
Categorical imperative
Statutory Law
21. 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
Answer
Arbitrability
breaches
Concurrent Jurisdiction
22. 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.
Origins Of Common Law
Trespass to land
Cases on point
Disparagement of property
23. Economic model that compares the marginal costs and marginal benefits of a decision
Cost-benefit analysis
Motion for a directed verdict
Police powers
Appellee
24. Motion to dismiss - motion for judgment on the pleadings - motion of summary judgement(amont others - motion to strike - motion to make more definite and certain - motion for judgement on the pleadings - motion to compel discovery - motion for summar
Writ of execution
Pretrial motions
citation
Reporters
25. The preponderance of evidence which means more likely then not.
Absolute bar
Standing to sue
Burden of proof
breaches
26. Torts committed via the internet
Cyber torts
Mini-trial
Common law
State Jurisdiction
27. The enumeration in the Constitution - of certain rights - shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
Disparagement of property
Corporate social responsibility
Appellee
Ninth Amendment
28. The party against whom legal action is taken; the party against whom a writ of certiorari is sought.
Equitable maxims
Respondent
Filtering software
Proximate cause
29. The power to speak the law.
Rules of evidence
Alleges
Jurisdiction
citation
30. An amendment to the Constitution of the United States that imposes restrictions on the government's prosecution of persons accused of crimes
Statues of limitation
positivist school
Fifth Amendment
Natural law
31. 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.
Filtering software
Trespass to personal property
Federal form of government
Equitable maxims
32. 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
Res ipsa loquitur
Question of law
Motion for judgement on the pleadings
Historical school
33. Based on the idea that law is just one of many institutions in society and that it is shaped by social forces and needs
First Amendment
Courts of law
Summary jury trials
Legal realism
34. Claims
Pleadings
Alleges
Origins Of Common Law
Statutory Law
35. No State can draw unreasonable distinctions between its own residents and those persons who happen to live in other States
in personam jurisdiction
Standing to sue
Privileges and and immunities clause
State level appeal eligibility
36. A nonbinding process in which attorneys for both sides present synopses of their cases to a jury - which renders an advisory opinion on the basis of these presentations
Police powers
Damages
Summary jury trials
Torts(Wrongs)
37. Someone who petitions a court for redress of a grievance or recovery of a right
Opening statements
Res ipsa loquitur
Petitioner
Arbitration
38. Previously decided cases that are as similar as possible to the one under consideration
Remedies
Cases on point
Pretrial motions
Counterclaim
39. A motion made by a party - during trial - claiming the opposing party has insufficient evidence to reasonably support its case
in personam jurisdiction
Motion for judgement as a matter of law
Rules of evidence
Business Ethics
40. A routine court order that attempts to enforce the judgment that has been granted to a plaintiff by authorizing a sheriff to carry it out
Writ of execution
Motion for judgement as a matter of law
Alleges
Damages
41. Highest official of a monarch. Granted new an unique remedies.
Summary jury trials
Venue
Opinions
Chancellor
42. Set of books containing published court decisions
Reporters
Principle of rights
positivist school
Opinions
43. The reasoning process used by judges in deciding what law applies to a given dispute and then applying that law to the specific facts or circumstances of the case
Probate courts
Eighth Amendment
Legal reasoning
Service of process
44. 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
Torts(Wrongs)
Trade libel
Analogy
Full faith and credit clause
45. A system of government in which the states form a union and the sovereign power is divided between the central government and the member states
Federal form of government
Strict liability
Pretrial motions
Reporters
46. Any testimony given in court about a statement made by someone else who was not under oath at the time of the statement
Hearsay
First Amendment
Negligence
Fifth Amendment
47. The unlawful taking or harming of another's personal property; interference with another's right to the exclusive possession of his or her personal property.
Historical school
diversity of citizenship
Public Policy
Trespass to personal property
48. Requirement that a case can only be heard by the Supreme Court if four justices vote to hear the case
Brief
Rule of four
Standing to sue
Negotiation
49. The idea that the goal of society should be the greatest happiness for the greatest number of its citizens
tilitarinism
Historical school
State level appeal eligibility
First Amendment
50. If the injured party can be made whole by receiving something of economic value - the remedy is a legal remedy [damages] - if a remedy at law is inadequate - a litigant may seek a remedy in equity - which involves notions of fair dealing and justice
Slander of title
Legal and Equitable Remedies
ordinaces
Stare Decisis and legal Reasoning