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Business Law Test - 2
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Life estate measured on someone elses natural life.
what are the 4 types of slander
Estate Pur Autrie Vie
Negligence (tort)
Vicarious Liabilities
2. In property law - an absolute ownership interest in an estate without restrictions. Highest and best form of property ownership.
Alternative Dispute Resolution(ADR)
Common Law Crimes
Fee Simple Absolute(FSA)
Jurisdiction
3. Court can file lean on persons property.
what are the 2 Main Categories of Crime
Expressed Warranty
Tenants in Common
In Rem
4. A promise in addition to an underlying sales agreement that goes beyond the terms of the sale agreement which the promisor assures the description - performance - or quality of the goods.
Covenant
Mechanics Lean
Tenants in Common
Expressed Warranty
5. Deed that passes whatever interest and control of a property to someone else without providing assurance of ownership.
Warranty Deed
1st Amendment Limitations
Quit-Claim
Nuisance (public)
6. Unreasonable interference with a right held in common by the general public
Nuisance (public)
Mechanics Lean
Deposition
what are the 2 Main Categories of Crime
7. Power of the government to condemn property for a public use without consent of the owner(condemnation).; With rights from 5th amendment comes the issue of 'just compensation'
Nuisance (private)
Actus reas
Felony
Eminent Domain
8. Ownership where tenants own the undivided property. If passed away heir will take over the undivided ownership.
Tenants in Common
1st Amendment Limitations
Estate Pur Autrie Vie
what are the 4 types of slander
9. 1.Contracts in consideration of marriage; 2. Contracts that cannot be performed within one year(statute of limitations); 3. Contracts for the transfer of an interest in land; 4. Contracts by the executor of a will to pay a debt of the estate with his
Tort
Mechanics Lean
what are the 6/7 statutes of frauds
Bill of Rights - Amendment 14
10. Unauthorized intrusion by a person or a thing on land belonging to another - regardless of whether it was a mistake. Not necessary to set foot on land to constitute trespassing.
Deposition
Covenant
Tresspass to land
Doctrine of strict liabilities
11. A tort which there is a valid contract - and the defendant knowingly and intentionally caused a breach of the contract - resulting in damages to the plaintiff.
Interference with Contractual Relationships
Expressed Warranty
Bill of Rights - Amendment 5
what are the 2 Main Categories of Crime
12. A civil wrong - other than breach of contract - in which the law provides a remedy. Breach of duty owed to another that causes harm; private wrong. Tort laws are the biggest body of civil law/private law.
Interference with Contractual Relationships
Bill of Rights - Amendment 4
Statute of Frauds
Tort
13. Go to prison for greater than or equal to 1yr and/or be fined greater than or equal to $1000; Possible loss of voting rights and carrying weapon; different degrees.
Slander
Mechanics Lean
1st Amendment Limitations
Felony
14. Any service on real estate that is not paid. Must file lean within 12 months of service provided.
Mechanics Lean
Res Judicata
Res Ispa Loquitur
Covenant
15. Spoken word - telling lies - publicizing - causing damage.
Strict Liability (tort)
what are the 4 types of slander
Independent Contractor
Tresspass to personal property
16. Unwritten - unexpressed promise or guarantee that a court infers to exist and that accompanies a good/product. i.e. 'boomerang example'.
Adverse Possession
Implied Warranty
Bill of Rights - Amendment 4
Tresspass to personal property
17. Breaks the doctrine of fusion apart; conspiracy - attempt - and solicitation. these crimes have no actus reas - just mens rea.
Inchoate Crimes
Tacking
Bill of Rights - Amendment 14
Warranty Deed
18. Bill Of Rights protection against self-incarceration and just compensation
Bill of Rights - Amendment 5
Adverse Possession
Quantum Meriut
Implied Warranty
19. The plaintiff needs to prove only that the tort happened and that the defendant was responsible.
Tresspass to land
In Rem
Common Law Crimes
Doctrine of strict liabilities
20. Power or authority over case. If court does not have jurisdiction - all work on case is invalid.
Quit-Claim
Tenants in Common
Jurisdiction
Slander
21. Criminal law rule that protects a defendant from being tried a second time for the same crime.
Vicarious Liabilities
Double Jeopardy
Adverse Possession
1st Amendment Limitations
22. Substantive common law that claims any agreement made by both parties prior to signing the contract that was not incorporated into the contract is barred upon signing by this rule in seeking to alter the terms of the contract.
Mens rea
Parole Evidence Rule
Doctrine of strict liabilities
Double Jeopardy
23. Tort defending against spoken defamation of persons.
5th Amendment Immunity
Slander
what are the 4 types of slander
Bill of Rights - Amendment 1
24. Only refers to conduct. Judge can order someone who is not doing something he/she is legally required to do to start doing it and vice-versa.
Expressed Warranty
Actus reas
Intentional (tort)
Court Of Equity
25. Felony; Misdemeanor
what are the 2 Main Categories of Crime
Common Law Crimes
Actus reas
Mechanics Lean
26. Allows officers to investigate people - less strict then probable cause; 4th amendment
Joint Tenants with the Right of Survivor-ship(JTWTROS)
Reasonable suspicion
Implied Warranty
Tort
27. Time - Place - and Manner
Reasonable suspicion
Covenant
1st Amendment Limitations
what are the 2 Main Categories of Crime
28. The physical part of the crime; the guilty act
what are the 2 types of ADR
Double Jeopardy
Actus reas
Slander
29. If one tenant passes away - the other claims full ownership of all property.
Joint Tenants with the Right of Survivor-ship(JTWTROS)
Nuisance (public)
In Rem
Parole Evidence Rule
30. What they intend to do. Totality of circumstance measures the intent before - during - and after the act. What is examined by lawyer.
Plea Bargaining
Covenant
Intentional (tort)
Reasonable suspicion
31. Each adverse possessor can tack there time to others when trying to obtain a quite title on a property.
Actus reas
Tacking
what are the 2 types of ADR
Warranty Deed
32. Murder - rape - sodomy - manslaughter - larceny - arson - mayhem - burglary
In Rem
what are the 3 types of torts
Strict Liability (tort)
what are the 8 common law crimes
33. A courts power over the person involved in the action. Personal and best type of jurisdiction.
Misdemeanor
In Personum
Bill of Rights - Amendment 6
Bill of Rights - Amendment 5
34. The government must prove mental intent and act on a crime; In defense of the accused - the act of fusing Actus Rea and Mens Rea before the court in which to prove evidence.
Doctrine Of Fusion
Tresspass to land
Deposition
Mens rea
35. You are entitled to be paid the reasonable value of your services and material in a contract action when you have completed the work and the buyer refuses to pay because of some 'minor' difference in what was contracted for.
Joint Tenants with the Right of Survivor-ship(JTWTROS)
what are the 2 Main Categories of Crime
Quantum Meriut
Bill of Rights - Amendment 14
36. Not held liable under respondeat superior. Cannot be held vicariously liable for the tortuous acts and damage of the contractor during the time which the contractor is working on private property.
Alternative Dispute Resolution(ADR)
Nuisance (public)
Independent Contractor
what are the 8 common law crimes
37. Common law - injured based on defendants negligence and therefore presumed to be at fault. i.e. lawnmower and dog; latin for 'the thing speaks for itself'
Res Ispa Loquitur
Tresspass to land
Bill of Rights - Amendment 8
Life Estate
38. FSA owner can grant ownership of property to someone for the measured on the duration of their natural life. Once dead the land goes back to FSA owner.
Life Estate
In Personum
Easement
what are the 4 factors of Negligence (tort)
39. Freedom of speech - religion - press - rights to assemble - and petition of government
Bill of Rights - Amendment 1
what are the 8 common law crimes
Inchoate Crimes
Quit-Claim
40. The criminal intent that must be established; the guilty mind
Mens rea
Tacking
what are the 4 types of slander
Tort
41. Act of taking ownership of a property by openly - notoriously - and continuously living on a property in an uninterrupted environment for 7yrs.(Quite Title)
Parole Evidence Rule
what are the 2 Main Categories of Crime
Adverse Possession
Title 7 of the Civil Rights Act of 1964(Employment Discrimination/Harassment)
42. The intent of the person committing the crime is transferred outcome of the act. Used in both criminal and tort law.
Tort
Doctrine of Transferred Intent
Eminent Domain
Common Law Crimes
43. Citizenship Rights
Slander
Bill of Rights - Amendment 14
5th Amendment Immunity
what are the 4 factors of Negligence (tort)
44. Intentional; negligence - strict liability
what are the 3 types of torts
Tresspass to personal property
Implied Warranty
Bill of Rights - Amendment 1
45. Immunity is granted by the court to where whatever the defendant says cannot be used against him as evidence. Also 'pleading the fifth'.
What is Law
Bill of Rights - Amendment 5
5th Amendment Immunity
Inchoate Crimes
46. Right against cruel and unusual punishment - includes excessive fines
Easement
Tort
Slander
Bill of Rights - Amendment 8
47. Arbitration - Mediation.
Statute of Frauds
what are the 2 types of ADR
Actus reas
1st Amendment Limitations
48. Go to jail for less than or equal to 1yr and/or be fined less than or equal to $1000.
Tresspass to land
Double Jeopardy
Misdemeanor
Tenants in Common
49. Right against unreasonable search and seizure(probable cause)
Bill of Rights - Amendment 4
Life Estate
Tort
Eminent Domain
50. Right to enter land owned by another and makes certain use of it or to take something from land. i.e. utility workers - firefighters.
Easement
Negligence (tort)
Plea Bargaining
Covenant