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Business Law Test - 2
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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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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. The plaintiff needs to prove only that the tort happened and that the defendant was responsible.
Eminent Domain
Doctrine of strict liabilities
Nuisance (public)
Slander
2. Bill Of Rights protection against self-incarceration and just compensation
Bill of Rights - Amendment 5
what are the 6/7 statutes of frauds
Mechanics Lean
Life Estate
3. Tort defending against spoken defamation of persons.
Respondeat Superior
Life Estate
Joint Tenants with the Right of Survivor-ship(JTWTROS)
Slander
4. Spoken word - telling lies - publicizing - causing damage.
Covenant
Jurisdiction
what are the 4 types of slander
Bill of Rights - Amendment 14
5. 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.
Respondeat Superior
Eminent Domain
Life Estate
Fee Simple Absolute(FSA)
6. Allows officers to investigate people - less strict then probable cause; 4th amendment
Expressed Warranty
Reasonable suspicion
Doctrine of Transferred Intent
Covenant
7. 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
Slander
Reasonable suspicion
8. The physical part of the crime; the guilty act
Bill of Rights - Amendment 1
Covenant
Doctrine of Transferred Intent
Actus reas
9. Unwritten - unexpressed promise or guarantee that a court infers to exist and that accompanies a good/product. i.e. 'boomerang example'.
Implied Warranty
Doctrine Of Fusion
Life Estate
Court Of Equity
10. Go to jail for less than or equal to 1yr and/or be fined less than or equal to $1000.
Misdemeanor
Plea Bargaining
Adverse Possession
Title 7 of the Civil Rights Act of 1964(Employment Discrimination/Harassment)
11. An employer is responsible for the actions of employees performed within the course of their employment; 'let the master answer'
Strict Liability (tort)
Jurisdiction
Covenant
Respondeat Superior
12. An activity that substantially and unreasonably interferes with the used and enjoyment of land
1st Amendment Limitations
what are the 8 common law crimes
Tacking
Nuisance (private)
13. If one tenant passes away - the other claims full ownership of all property.
Joint Tenants with the Right of Survivor-ship(JTWTROS)
what are the 3 types of torts
Independent Contractor
1st Amendment Limitations
14. 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'
Statute of Frauds
Eminent Domain
Bill of Rights - Amendment 14
Interference with Contractual Relationships
15. Act of taking ownership of a property by openly - notoriously - and continuously living on a property in an uninterrupted environment for 7yrs.(Quite Title)
Life Estate
Adverse Possession
Estate Pur Autrie Vie
Statute of Frauds
16. Careless conduct. Tort that protects from unintentional but careless conduct; Determine whether 'reasonable person' would have done this. 4 factors
Negligence (tort)
Estate Pur Autrie Vie
Life Estate
Parole Evidence Rule
17. 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.
Adverse Possession
Doctrine Of Fusion
Tort
Strict Liability (tort)
18. Confrontation Clause - rights of the accused in criminal law be guaranteed a speedy public trail as well as the right to seek counsel
Double Jeopardy
Eminent Domain
Common Law Crimes
Bill of Rights - Amendment 6
19. Murder - rape - sodomy - manslaughter - larceny - arson - mayhem - burglary
Doctrine of Transferred Intent
Res Judicata
what are the 8 common law crimes
Implied Warranty
20. Immunity is granted by the court to where whatever the defendant says cannot be used against him as evidence. Also 'pleading the fifth'.
Covenant
Misdemeanor
Strict Liability (tort)
5th Amendment Immunity
21. Time - Place - and Manner
Covenant
Nuisance (private)
Estate Pur Autrie Vie
1st Amendment Limitations
22. 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.
Interference with Contractual Relationships
Plea Bargaining
Felony
Reasonable suspicion
23. 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.
Intentional (tort)
Expressed Warranty
Warranty Deed
what are the 2 types of ADR
24. Deed that claims the seller must defend the title of the property against any individuals claiming to seek the title of the property.
Title 7 of the Civil Rights Act of 1964(Employment Discrimination/Harassment)
Warranty Deed
In Rem
what are the 3 types of torts
25. Citizenship Rights
Title 7 of the Civil Rights Act of 1964(Employment Discrimination/Harassment)
What is Law
Bill of Rights - Amendment 14
Nuisance (private)
26. Civil law rule that prohibits the same dispute between two parties from being reopen by a court after final judgment has been entered and all appeals exhausted.
Easement
Eminent Domain
Res Judicata
Plea Bargaining
27. Method of settling criminal cases by pleading guilty to charges in an attempt to lessen charges/consequences. Can either plead guilty - lesser charge - or nolo contendere(no contest).
Tresspass to personal property
Actus reas
Plea Bargaining
Vicarious Liabilities
28. 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.
Slander
Independent Contractor
Nuisance (public)
Common Law Crimes
29. 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.
what are the 2 types of ADR
Estate Pur Autrie Vie
Doctrine of strict liabilities
Court Of Equity
30. Freedom of speech - religion - press - rights to assemble - and petition of government
Statute of Frauds
Bill of Rights - Amendment 14
Independent Contractor
Bill of Rights - Amendment 1
31. Criminal law rule that protects a defendant from being tried a second time for the same crime.
Double Jeopardy
Doctrine of strict liabilities
Tacking
Adverse Possession
32. 8 common law crimes form the basis of penil (criminal) code. Mrs m lamb
In Rem
Vicarious Liabilities
Common Law Crimes
In Personum
33. 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.
Bill of Rights - Amendment 1
Expressed Warranty
Quantum Meriut
Doctrine of Transferred Intent
34. Duty - breach of duty - proximate cause - damage.
Title 7 of the Civil Rights Act of 1964(Employment Discrimination/Harassment)
Tacking
Inchoate Crimes
what are the 4 factors of Negligence (tort)
35. Ownership where tenants own the undivided property. If passed away heir will take over the undivided ownership.
Tenants in Common
Plea Bargaining
Deposition
Adverse Possession
36. Life estate measured on someone elses natural life.
Quantum Meriut
Tort
Felony
Estate Pur Autrie Vie
37. Attempt to settle civil cases before trial. Required in the state of FL. Two types
Tenants in Common
Alternative Dispute Resolution(ADR)
Bill of Rights - Amendment 4
Joint Tenants with the Right of Survivor-ship(JTWTROS)
38. Each adverse possessor can tack there time to others when trying to obtain a quite title on a property.
Misdemeanor
Tacking
Tresspass to personal property
Bill of Rights - Amendment 8
39. The criminal intent that must be established; the guilty mind
Plea Bargaining
what are the 4 types of slander
Mens rea
Inchoate Crimes
40. Felony; Misdemeanor
what are the 2 Main Categories of Crime
Bill of Rights - Amendment 14
Misdemeanor
Quit-Claim
41. 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.
Respondeat Superior
Tresspass to land
Jurisdiction
what are the 2 types of ADR
42. 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'
Actus reas
Respondeat Superior
Tacking
Res Ispa Loquitur
43. A courts power over the person involved in the action. Personal and best type of jurisdiction.
what are the 2 types of ADR
Joint Tenants with the Right of Survivor-ship(JTWTROS)
In Personum
Life Estate
44. Unreasonable interference with a right held in common by the general public
Estate Pur Autrie Vie
Nuisance (public)
Common Law Crimes
Joint Tenants with the Right of Survivor-ship(JTWTROS)
45. Prohibits discrimination by covered employers on the basis or race - color - religion - sex or national origin.
Doctrine of Transferred Intent
Title 7 of the Civil Rights Act of 1964(Employment Discrimination/Harassment)
What is Law
Interference with Contractual Relationships
46. What they intend to do. Totality of circumstance measures the intent before - during - and after the act. What is examined by lawyer.
Jurisdiction
In Rem
Intentional (tort)
Res Judicata
47. Intentional; negligence - strict liability
what are the 3 types of torts
Doctrine Of Fusion
Plea Bargaining
what are the 8 common law crimes
48. 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
Quantum Meriut
Alternative Dispute Resolution(ADR)
Double Jeopardy
49. 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.
Negligence (tort)
what are the 2 types of ADR
Interference with Contractual Relationships
Nuisance (public)
50. Form of strict - secondary liabilities that arise under the common law doc. of agency(respondeat superior). If liability for the tort requires a state of mind - the directing officer must have that state of mind.
Court Of Equity
Vicarious Liabilities
Tresspass to personal property
Res Judicata