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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 major provider of arbitration services
laches
Checks and balances
American Arbitration Association
in personam jurisdiction
2. Law concerned with private wrongs against individuals
Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
Civil Law
Fifth Amendment
importance of common law
3. An informal term used to refer to all laws governing electronic communications and transactions - particularly those conducted via the Internet.
Legal realism
Question of fact
Natural law
Cyberlaw
4. Three remedies known as land - items of value - or money
Remedies of Law
Filtering software
Free exercise clause
First Amendment
5. The rules governing the manner in which civil cases are brough in and progress through the federal courts
Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
Federal form of government
Rebuttal
Proximate cause
6. To confirm priestly authority upon
Award
ordinaces
Summons
Criminal law
7. (law) a pleading by the defendant in reply to a plaintiff's surrejoinder
Summary jury trials
State and Federal Court Systems
Criminal law
Rebuttal
8. Federal regulatory agencies that are independent - thus not fully under the power of the president. Ex. Federal Trade Commission - Securities and Exchange Commission.
jurisprudence
Opinions
Common law
Independent regulatory agencies
9. Set of books containing published court decisions
Reporters
Precedent
Alleges
Brief
10. A judgment entered in favor of the plaintiff when the defendant defaults (fails to appear in court)
Disparagement of property
Default judgement
Civil Law
Respondent Superior
11. (civil law) the first pleading of the plaintiff setting out the facts on which the claim for relief is based
Arbitration
Complaint
Probate courts
Bankruptcy courts
12. In a lawsuit - an issue involving the application or interpretation of a law. Only a judge - not a jury - can rule on questions of law.
Pretrial motions
Question of law
Alleges
Motion
13. Everyone in the commercial chain will be liable for the defect. (manafacturer - distrubutor - retailer) *end user is not in the commercial chain.
Strict product liability
Statutory Law
Syllogism
Commerce clause
14. 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.
Venue
Proximate cause
Strict product liability
jurisprudence
15. 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
Standing to sue
in personam jurisdiction
Motion for a new trial
Statues of limitation
16. Formal chancery courts - grant unique remedies. These remedies include specific performance - injunction and rescission.
Courts of equity
American Arbitration Association
Writ of certiorari
Early neutral case evaluation
17. Adj. from the Latin 'against or about a thing -' referring to a lawsuit or other legal action directed toward property - rather than toward a particular person. Thus - if title to property is the issue - the action is 'in rem.' The term is important
Bankruptcy courts
Small Claims courts
Absolute bar
In rem jurisdiction
18. (law) the initial questioning of a witness by the party that called the witness
Areas of Law that may affect business decision making
Legal and Equitable Remedies
In rem jurisdiction
Direct examination
19. Jury selection process of questioning prospective jurors - to ascertain their qualifications and determine any basis for challenge.
Strict liability
Strict product liability
Fifth Amendment
voir dire
20. Need a set of laws so that commerce is possible; can't have different laws in every state for business. Uniform Commercial Code. Uniform Partnernship Act. Most states adopt them but not in the exact same form
uniform laws
Answer
Full faith and credit clause
Cyber torts
21. Law that involves the interpretation and application of the U.S. Constitution and state constitutions
Second Amendment
Constitutional Law
Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
Appellee
22. Someone who petitions a court for redress of a grievance or recovery of a right
Criminal law
Petitioner
Standing to sue
Respondent Superior
23. The course of action the government takes in response to an issue or problem as deemed by widely held belief.
due proccess clause
Seventh Amendment
Public Policy
Small Claims courts
24. Questioning of a witness during a trial or during the taking of a deposition - by the party opposed to the one who produced the witness.
Motion for judgement on the pleadings
Jurisdiction
Cross-examination
Sociological school
25. An argument made after the plaintiff and defendant have rested their cases. Closing arguments are made prior to the jury charges.
Closing argument
Negotiation
Rule of four
Petitioner
26. Discussion with a view to reaching agreement; talking about a conflict where both parties give and take to reach a resolution - without attorneys.
Stages in an A Typical Lawsuit
Opinions
Legal reasoning
Negotiation
27. A court will award money or other relief to a party injured by a breach of contract
Motion for judgement on the pleadings
Third Amendment
Remedies
Trespass to personal property
28. The party who appeals a decision of a lower court
Appellant
Res ipsa loquitur
Arbitrability
Direct examination
29. Is strict liability hold a claim if the product or service in question is...
abnormally dangerous
Relevant evidence
Alleges
Statutory Law
30. The power to speak the law.
voir dire
Jurisdiction
Arbitrability
Commerce clause
31. A form of alternative dispute resolution in which a neutral third party evaluates the strengths and weakness of the disputing parties' positions; the evaluator's opinion forms the basis for negotiating a settlement.
Public Policy
laches
Early neutral case evaluation
Proximate cause
32. Highest official of a monarch. Granted new an unique remedies.
Good samaritan statues
Standing to sue
Chancellor
Criminal law
33. 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
Common law
voir dire
Full faith and credit clause
Natural law
34. State courts that handle only matters relating to the transfer of a person's assets and obligations after that person's death - including issues relating to custody and guardianship of children
Ninth Amendment
importance of common law
Probate courts
Defenses to negligence
35. Handle only bankruptcy proceedings - which are governed by federal bankruptcy law
Slander of title
Bankruptcy courts
Administrative law
Probable cause
36. A basis for federal court jurisdiction over a lawsuit between (1) citizens of different states (2) a foreign country and citizens of a state of of different states - or (3) citizens of a state and citizens or subjects of a foreign country. The amount
law
Counterclaim
diversity of citizenship
Arbitrability
37. An act or omission without which an event would not have occurred.
Motion for judgement on the pleadings
Syllogism
Causation in fact
citation
38. Enforcable rules governing relationships among individuals and between individuals and thier society.
Origins Of Common Law
Public Policy
Cases on point
law
39. Statements made by the plaintiff and the defendant in a lawsuit that detail the facts - charges - and defenses involved in the litigation. The complaint and answer are part of the pleadings.
Pleadings
Analogy
Writ of certiorari
Respondent Superior
40. Relieve you of some liability when reasonable care is used
Good samaritan statues
Standing to sue
establishment clause
Direct examination
41. 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.
Ethical reasoning
ordinaces
Chancellor
Filtering software
42. Part of the 14th Amendment which guarentees that no state deny basic rights to its people
Second Amendment
tilitarinism
First Amendment
due proccess clause
43. An order to appear in person at a given place and time
Award
Jurisdiction
Summons
Trespass to personal property
44. The body of conventional - or written - law of a particular society at a particular point in time.
positive law
Motion for a new trial
Criminal law
Precedent
45. Statutes adopted in many states that impose strict liability upon tavern owners for injuries to third parties caused by their intoxicated patrons
Disparagement of property
voir dire
Full faith and credit clause
dram shop acts
46. 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
Principle of rights
Mini-trial
Fourth Amendment
Sixth Amendment
47. (law) a pleading made by a defendant in response to the plaintiff's replication
Rule of four
Probable cause
Rejoinder
Criminal law
48. A sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury
Small Claims courts
abnormally dangerous
Damages
Common law
49. 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
Administrative agency
Analogy
Federal form of government
Justicable controversy
50. 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.
Disparagement of property
Statutory Law
Cyberlaw
Motion for judgement on the pleadings