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Business Law Vocab - 2
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. System of checks and balances within the federal government
Separation of powers
Legal Issue Presented
mirror image rule
Appellee
2. First 10 amendments of the constitution; Compromise between federalist and antifederalists; Protects natural rights of liberty and property
Year when 'On the Laws and Customs of England' was written
Bill of Right
Writ of Certiorari
Henry DeBracton
3. Legality; the subject matter must be legal
third requirement of a contract
agreement
intentional tort
insanity
4. Judges are obligated to follow precedent
Stare Decisis
fourth requirement of a contract
Depositions
precedent
5. Pretrial motions; motions for a summary judgement; asks the court to resolve a lawsuit before it goes to trial
invitee
Step three in filing a civil law suit
fifth amendment
Step four in filing a civil law suit
6. A tithing of 10 men put together to hold each other accountable. Anglo-saxon method of keeping the peace.
Separation of powers
crime burden of proof
Collective Responsibility
Insurance Fraud
7. A company becomes liable if they do not perform a background check
negligent hiring
Bill of Right
mens rea
counter offer
8. To a committee to be studied; and then debated and voted upon; this is where new amendments can be added.
fourth requirement of a contract
After a bill enters the house of rep or senate - it goes where...
Negligence
After the bill is released from committees in the two houses - it goes...
9. Common law rule; acceptance must be made on the same terms as the offer
element 4 of a negligence lawsuit
you cannot revoke an offer...
element 1 of a negligence lawsuit
mirror image rule
10. 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.
Number of judges on the panel in the Court of Appeals
Minimal scrutiny
For a bill to pass...
Strict scrutiny
11. Refers to lawsuits; the process of filing claims to courts
invitee
Litigation
Common Law
fourth requirement of a contract
12. A party may ask the court to order an examination to find out if physical or mental damage is relevant
When a bill is introduced to the house of representatives it must have a...
Physical and Mental examination
The primary drafter of the constitution
Equal Protection Clause
13. During the option period of a contract
you cannot revoke an offer...
Where the bill goes after conference committee
when a bill is introduced to the Sentate is must have...
Contributory Negligence
14. Using false statements or bribes to obtain medicare payments from the federal or state government
fifth amendment
element 2 of a negligence lawsuit
Medicare fraud
Federal District Court
15. Baron Montesquieu
Fraud
breach of duty
French social commentator and political thinker who created the Separation of Powers theory
revocation
16. Type of defamation tort; written defamation
lible
promissory estoppel
licensee
Bill of Right
17. Injury
strict liability
Insurance Fraud
conversion(2)
element 5 of a negligence lawsuit
18. Any scheme that attempts to unlawfully obtain money or services illegally through the US postal service
Mail Fraud
Voir Dire
After a bill enters the house of rep or senate - it goes where...
negligent hiring
19. The obligation to decide current cases based on previous rulings.
What is not protected under the first amendment
John Locke
precedent
The percentage vote to pass a bill
20. Three.
John Locke
precedent
Number of judges on the panel in the Court of Appeals
Physical and Mental examination
21. Cruel and unusual punishment
eighth amendment
In a lawsuit attorneys have a burden of proof that shows liability by
Stare Decisis
Year when 'On the Laws and Customs of England' was written
22. Written questions that the opposing party must answer in writing under oath
In the house of representatives - after a bill has left the first committee - it travels to...
Negligence per se
Interrogatories
negligent retention
23. Reference code; label for looking the case up
The job of the Rules Committee
Citation
Litigation
Arson
24. Type of intentional tort; the intentional restraint of another without reasonable cause
sixth amendment
Intermediate scrutiny
false imprisonment
Negligence
25. A letter that summarizes the negotiating progress
When a bill is introduced to the house of representatives it must have a...
lible
letters of intent
Litigation
26. If a company does not address an insubordinate employee - they become liable
Administrative Law
negligent retention
Separation of powers
counter offer
27. Sandra Day Oconnor
First Woman Justice
Step one in filing a civil law suit
John Locke
Henry DeBracton
28. 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
Holding
intrusion
larceny
Federal District Court
29. The opinion of Judges who agree with the holding - but for different reasons.
Concurring Opinion
Legal Issue Presented
John Locke
intrusion
30. Items such as trampolines and swimming pools; defendant is liable if there is no protection
First African American Justice
attractive nuisance
promissory estoppel
slander
31. Action - print and other expression. Broader than the spoken word
What Freedom of speech includes
Pleadings
Common Law
quasi contract
32. A subtype of rejection
expiration
counter offer
Federalism
element 1 of a negligence lawsuit
33. A person who volluntarily enters a situation that has an obvious danger cannot complain is he/she is injured
element 2 of a negligence lawsuit
operation of law
lible
Assumption of the risk
34. Lack of opinion - malice as to public figures - negligence to private individuals
To prove injury the defamation must show...
element 3 of a negligence lawsuit
What section of the Constitution grants congress it's powers?
Collective Responsibility
35. Presiding officer (senator)
Assumption of the risk
Interrogatories
when a bill is introduced to the Sentate is must have...
fifth amendment
36. 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
you cannot revoke an offer...
Assumption of the risk
Negligence and strict liability
37. Talking trash
Defamation
Physical and Mental examination
element 3 of a negligence lawsuit
counter offer
38. 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.
Conference committee
express contract
Depositions
Voir Dire
39. A violation of a duty imposed by a civil law.
crime burden of proof
tort
you cannot revoke an offer...
Separation of powers
40. Trial Court
Mail box rule
entrapment
Federal District Court
Res ipsa loquitor
41. If the plaintiff is even slightly negligent he/she recovers nothing
Insurance Fraud
Style of a Case
Wire Fraud
Contributory Negligence
42. For the defendant to be liable - the type of harm must have been reasonably forseeable.
RICO
forseeable harm
In the senate - after the bill leave committee it travels to...
Procedural due process
43. Type of tort; taking someone elses property without consent.
Common Law
conversion
revocation
Writ of Certiorari
44. The sharing of powers between levels of government
Federalism
fourth requirement of a contract
Litigation
After the bill is released from committees in the two houses - it goes...
45. Article I - Section 8
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46. When a law remains untouched on the presidents desk for over 10 days after congress's adjournment
Pocket Veto
Arson
element 4 of a negligence lawsuit
letters of intent
47. To the conference committee
element 3 of a negligence lawsuit
After the bill is released from committees in the two houses - it goes...
How Federal Law has jurisdiction in a lawsuit
Writ of Certiorari
48. Type of intentional tort (and crime); injuring someone by deliberate deception
false imprisonment
Fraud
lible
Total circuits in the court of appeals
49. 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
regulation of interstate commerce
Supremacy clause
Negligence per se
slander
50. Defamation - obscenity - speech that creates danger
element 3 of a negligence lawsuit
What is not protected under the first amendment
Stare Decisis
Arbitration