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Business Law Vocab - 2
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A party may ask the court to order an examination to find out if physical or mental damage is relevant
Voir Dire
Wire Fraud
After the bill is released from committees in the two houses - it goes...
Physical and Mental examination
2. A contract put in writing laying out all of the terms
express contract
Holding
larceny
Dissenting Opinion
3. Laws involving economic and social regulation; laws that regard economic or social status are presumed valid and corporations and people can be classified
Minimal scrutiny
Mediation
false imprisonment
Statute
4. Thurgood Marshall
slander
Number of Justices in the Supreme Court?
you cannot revoke an offer...
First African American Justice
5. Termination when an offer specifies a time limit for acceptance and the period is binding.
Tortious interference with a contract
second requirement of a contract
expiration
intrusion
6. Type of intentional tort; the intentional restraint of another without reasonable cause
false imprisonment
Negligence
Defamation
Separation of powers
7. Establishes the idea precendent
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8. Procedures for academic dismissal or dismissal from a government job
Medicare fraud
RICO
strict liability
Procedural due process
9. Judge made law
actus reus
Depositions
Common Law
Style of a Case
10. 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
For a bill to pass...
Stare Decisis
Step one in filing a civil law suit
coercion
11. Type of business crime; the trespassing taking of personal property with intent to steal it. defendant never had the right to have said property in posession
breach of duty
Supremacy clause
larceny
Fraud
12. The legal question that is posed in a case
The percentage vote to pass a bill
Common Law
The last step of a bill in the House of representatives is...
Legal Issue Presented
13. If the plaintiff is even slightly negligent he/she recovers nothing
insanity
Tortious interference with a contract
Rationale
Contributory Negligence
14. Refers to lawsuits; the process of filing claims to courts
Litigation
mens rea
element 3 of a negligence lawsuit
Equal Protection Clause
15. No self incrimination / due process (miranda warnings)
fifth amendment
Common Law
conversion
Takings clause
16. Defamation - obscenity - speech that creates danger
What is not protected under the first amendment
Separation of powers
Concurring Opinion
Rationale
17. Bottom Line answer
The last step of a bill in the House of representatives is...
Two types of dispute resolution
Holding
uniform commercial code
18. System of checks and balances within the federal government
breach of duty
Step two in filing a civil law suit
Collective Responsibility
Separation of powers
19. During the option period of a contract
Fraud
strict liability
you cannot revoke an offer...
entrapment
20. Attorneys ask jurors a set of questions to determine bias
Total circuits in the court of appeals
Voir Dire
Defamation
fourth amendment
21. Pretrial motions; motions for a summary judgement; asks the court to resolve a lawsuit before it goes to trial
Step three in filing a civil law suit
Dissenting Opinion
tort
Depositions
22. Discovery phase: chance for the party to learn about its opponent.
Takings clause
Separation of powers
Writ of Certiorari
Step two in filing a civil law suit
23. John Roberts
Henry DeBracton
Qualifications for defamation
Stare Decisis
Current Chief Justice
24. A defendant breaches his duty of due care by failing to behave the way a reasonable person would under similar circumstances
invitee
breach of duty
tort
After the bill is released from committees in the two houses - it goes...
25. Termination by simply turning down the offer
In the house of representatives - after a bill has left the first committee - it travels to...
Bill of Right
rejection
Patriot Act
26. No unreasonable searches or seizures
fourth amendment
What Freedom of speech includes
Statute
Mail Fraud
27. Judge made law; based on precedent - which leads to stare decisis
first requirement of a contract
expiration
Patriot Act
Common Law
28. They set time limits for debate - decide how fast the law should be deliberated and when the bill goes to the floor for debate.
mens rea
element 2 of a negligence lawsuit
Citation
The job of the Rules Committee
29. The documents that begin a lawsuit: consists of the complaint - answer and sometimes a reply
negligent hiring
Pleadings
Number of judges on the panel in the Court of Appeals
slander
30. The obligation to decide current cases based on previous rulings.
mens rea
To prove injury the defamation must show...
precedent
Collective Responsibility
31. Three.
Two types of dispute resolution
Contributory Negligence
Federal District Court
Number of judges on the panel in the Court of Appeals
32. Talking trash
Litigation
Defamation
second requirement of a contract
Insurance Fraud
33. Article I - Section 8
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34. Requires a meeting of the minds
first requirement of a contract
Dicta
agreement
strict liability
35. Nine.
First Woman Justice
Number of Justices in the Supreme Court?
Bill
Step two in filing a civil law suit
36. Section of the fourteenth amendment where courts must provide equal protection to all cases based on scrutiny
Where the bill goes after conference committee
element 4 of a negligence lawsuit
Equal Protection Clause
What Freedom of speech includes
37. Using two or more racketeering acts to accomplish any of the following goals: (1) investing or acquiring legitimate businesses with criminal money (2)maintaining or acquiring businesses through criminal activity
Current Chief Justice
when a bill is introduced to the Sentate is must have...
RICO
Medicare fraud
38. Gender related; such laws must be substantially related to important government objectives. (gov't cant discriminate based on gender through the law making process)
Intermediate scrutiny
mirror image rule
Physical and Mental examination
Statute
39. 1250
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40. Judges who disagree with the majority holding; states their opposing opinion
Dissenting Opinion
eighth amendment
second requirement of a contract
first requirement of a contract
41. A court will imply by conduct that there was an agreement between two parties
implied contract
Number of judges on the panel in the Court of Appeals
Number of Justices in the Supreme Court?
When a bill is introduced to the house of representatives it must have a...
42. A letter that summarizes the negotiating progress
letters of intent
express contract
After a bill enters the house of rep or senate - it goes where...
Request of production of documents and things
43. A plaintiff may generally recover even if he/she is partially negligible
Citation
Comparative Fault
Pleadings
you cannot revoke an offer...
44. There is no intention to a contract but the plaintiff gives some benefit to the defendant who knows the plaintiff expects compensation. it would be unjust not to award the damages.
rejection
Citation
quasi contract
The job of the Rules Committee
45. Reasoning court gives for the holding
invitee
Rationale
For a bill to pass...
Negligence
46. The introduction of a neutral third party in resolving a dispute; issues a binding decision.
Litigation
coercion
Arbitration
express contract
47. United States is a party; the case is about a federal statute; the suit is between citizens of two different states and the the amt is over 75 -000
Pocket Veto
Where the bill goes after conference committee
fourth requirement of a contract
How Federal Law has jurisdiction in a lawsuit
48. A person who volluntarily enters a situation that has an obvious danger cannot complain is he/she is injured
false imprisonment
Step two in filing a civil law suit
Assumption of the risk
Step four in filing a civil law suit
49. Language added to a court's opinion that is beyond what is needed; extra words offered as guidance
trespass
Dicta
second requirement of a contract
Incorporation clause
50. Race - ethincity and fundamental rights; Any government action that intentionally discriminates against racial or ethnic minorities or interferes with a fundamental right is presumed invalid.
French social commentator and political thinker who created the Separation of Powers theory
actus reus
Strict scrutiny
First Woman Justice