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Business Law Vocab - 2
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1. Type of defense; the practice of forcing another party to behave in an involuntary manner (whether through action or inaction) by use of threats or rewards
counter offer
coercion
Appellant
Filibuster
2. The legal doctrine whereby an act is considered negligent because it violates a statute (or regulation)
Negligence per se
Collective Responsibility
Medicare fraud
Concurring Opinion
3. No state can deny citizens due process. (14th amendment) this incorporates states to be ruled under the constitution
First African American Justice
Incorporation clause
element 4 of a negligence lawsuit
negligent hiring
4. Faking car accidents and injury in order to gain a settlement
regulation of interstate commerce
Insurance Fraud
Henry DeBracton
John Locke
5. Reasoning court gives for the holding
What section of the Constitution grants congress it's powers?
Mail box rule
intentional tort
Rationale
6. Consists of two members of the House of Representatives and two members of the senate; they try to compromise between two edited versions of a bill to make it equal.
Takings clause
Substantial effect rule
Voir Dire
Conference committee
7. Punishable by a prison sentence of one year or more
Supremacy clause
Step four in filing a civil law suit
Pleadings
felony
8. Legality; the subject matter must be legal
third requirement of a contract
letters of intent
attractive nuisance
regulation of interstate commerce
9. When a law remains untouched on the presidents desk for over 10 days after congress's adjournment
Pocket Veto
RICO
Defamation
strict liability
10. A company becomes liable if they do not perform a background check
Voir Dire
negligent hiring
Common Law
fourth amendment
11. Judges who disagree with the majority holding; states their opposing opinion
Rationale
French social commentator and political thinker who created the Separation of Powers theory
assault
Dissenting Opinion
12. Requires a meeting of the minds
agreement
Henry DeBracton
For a bill to pass...
Ethics
13. Trial.
first requirement of a contract
Step four in filing a civil law suit
Strict scrutiny
Federalism
14. Lack of opinion - malice as to public figures - negligence to private individuals
operation of law
you cannot revoke an offer...
To prove injury the defamation must show...
Fraud
15. Article I - Section 8
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16. They set time limits for debate - decide how fast the law should be deliberated and when the bill goes to the floor for debate.
operation of law
The job of the Rules Committee
Fraud
John Locke
17. Someone on the property by right of a public place. highest duty of due care is owed to avoid negligence
invitee
entrapment
Administrative Law
Wire Fraud
18. Binding; an offeror cannot withdraw
insanity
How much of a majority is it to override a presidents veto
fifth amendment
Mail box rule
19. A court will imply by conduct that there was an agreement between two parties
tort
Strict scrutiny
implied contract
fifth amendment
20. A subtype of rejection
counter offer
promissory estoppel
false imprisonment
RICO
21. Three.
Collective Responsibility
Number of judges on the panel in the Court of Appeals
implied contract
Where the bill goes after conference committee
22. Laws involving economic and social regulation; laws that regard economic or social status are presumed valid and corporations and people can be classified
felony
fourth requirement of a contract
Minimal scrutiny
Bill of Right
23. States who is suing who. Identifies parties.
Style of a Case
precedent
element 1 of a negligence lawsuit
Interrogatories
24. The opinion of Judges who agree with the holding - but for different reasons.
Ethics
Interrogatories
element 3 of a negligence lawsuit
Concurring Opinion
25. To a committee to be studied; and then debated and voted upon; this is where new amendments can be added.
misdemeanor
Year when 'On the Laws and Customs of England' was written
uniform commercial code
After a bill enters the house of rep or senate - it goes where...
26. A letter that summarizes the negotiating progress
letters of intent
actus reus
What Freedom of speech includes
Supremacy clause
27. When the bill is debated to the floor of the house.
Writ of Certiorari
Appellee
Bill
The last step of a bill in the House of representatives is...
28. If the proceedings of a business occur intrastate but will eventually effect proceedings interstate - this rule states that congress may interfere
How Federal Law has jurisdiction in a lawsuit
Substantial effect rule
Pocket Veto
Procedural due process
29. The party filing the appeal
To prove injury the defamation must show...
Mail box rule
Appellant
misdemeanor
30. The introduction of a neutral third party in resolving a dispute; not a binding decision. Voluntary settlement.
Mediation
entrapment
Rationale
Federal District Court
31. Allows the FBI to surveillance citizens with out a search warrant from a judge
Bill
second requirement of a contract
Patriot Act
element 3 of a negligence lawsuit
32. John Roberts
Current Chief Justice
express contract
Bill
Negligence per se
33. During the option period of a contract
Mediation
element 3 of a negligence lawsuit
you cannot revoke an offer...
tort
34. Freedom of speech.
Conference committee
first amendment
Negligence per se
Collective Responsibility
35. 2/3 vote
Voir Dire
How much of a majority is it to override a presidents veto
intrusion
First African American Justice
36. The study of how people ought to act; does not always mean legal.
Federalism
What is not protected under the first amendment
embezzlement
Ethics
37. Proposed statutes - submitted to Congress or a legislature
felony
Bill
Insurance Fraud
element 2 of a negligence lawsuit
38. Fraud using electronic communications of any kind;
RICO
Wire Fraud
fifth amendment
Interrogatories
39. The legal question that is posed in a case
Fraud
battery
Legal Issue Presented
Statute
40. Wrote 'On the Laws and Customs of England'
Two types of dispute resolution
Commercial Exploitation
Henry DeBracton
coercion
41. Aricle IV section 2 of the constitution that states that the constitution and the united States are the laws of the land. Federal government trumps state law
Depositions
sixth amendment
quasi contract
Supremacy clause
42. Section of the fourteenth amendment where courts must provide equal protection to all cases based on scrutiny
Stare Decisis
eighth amendment
Equal Protection Clause
Rationale
43. Due process or the right to a hearing
promissory estoppel
fifth amendment
Negligence
conversion
44. First 10 amendments of the constitution; Compromise between federalist and antifederalists; Protects natural rights of liberty and property
implied contract
negligent hiring
false imprisonment
Bill of Right
45. Termination by simply turning down the offer
Qualifications for defamation
Step four in filing a civil law suit
rejection
Defamation
46. Reference code; label for looking the case up
Holding
Citation
Separation of powers
How much of a majority is it to override a presidents veto
47. FCC (Federal Communications Commission)
How much of a majority is it to override a presidents veto
Current Chief Justice
In the senate - after the bill leave committee it travels to...
Who regulates commercial speech
48. (1)statement (2)falseness (3)communicated (4)injury
trespass
attractive nuisance
Qualifications for defamation
Mediation
49. Preponderance of the evidence
First African American Justice
slander
Fraud
In a lawsuit attorneys have a burden of proof that shows liability by
50. The defendant (defamer) knew the statement was false or acted with reckless disregard to the truth
negligent hiring
Appellant
assault
Malice