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Business Law Vocab - 2
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1. Sandra Day Oconnor
First Woman Justice
Assumption of the risk
licensee
assault
2. Capacity; the parties must be adults and mentally competent
In the house of representatives - after a bill has left the first committee - it travels to...
Significance of 'On the Laws and Customs of England'
Takings clause
fourth requirement of a contract
3. Forbidding a law to be passed
Significance of 'On the Laws and Customs of England'
Veto
forseeable harm
Year when 'On the Laws and Customs of England' was written
4. 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
Legal Issue Presented
Interrogatories
Malice
5. Complaint and summons are served to defendant; answer is provided within 30 days
letters of intent
To prove injury the defamation must show...
Step one in filing a civil law suit
Current Chief Justice
6. 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
larceny
lible
Mail Fraud
invitee
7. The study of how people ought to act; does not always mean legal.
express contract
when a bill is introduced to the Sentate is must have...
Ethics
first amendment
8. Guilty beyond a reasonable doubt
Procedural due process
letters of intent
crime burden of proof
misdemeanor
9. Three.
Number of judges on the panel in the Court of Appeals
second requirement of a contract
Res ipsa loquitor
regulation of interstate commerce
10. Bottom Line answer
trespass
Qualifications for defamation
Holding
For a bill to pass...
11. Right to an attorney when facing a prison sentence
Concurring Opinion
When a bill is introduced to the house of representatives it must have a...
sixth amendment
element 1 of a negligence lawsuit
12. If the proceedings of a business occur intrastate but will eventually effect proceedings interstate - this rule states that congress may interfere
operation of law
Substantial effect rule
element 4 of a negligence lawsuit
Negligence
13. Defamation - obscenity - speech that creates danger
Fraud
promissory estoppel
What is not protected under the first amendment
revocation
14. Judges who disagree with the majority holding; states their opposing opinion
misdemeanor
Insurance Fraud
Dicta
Dissenting Opinion
15. James Madison - 1789
quasi contract
The primary drafter of the constitution
First African American Justice
Number of Justices in the Supreme Court?
16. Type of business crime; the fraudulent conversion of property already in the defendants posession.
Bill
Step one in filing a civil law suit
embezzlement
Qualifications for defamation
17. Type of defense; the defendant is incapable of forming mens rea
insanity
After the bill is released from committees in the two houses - it goes...
mirror image rule
Appellee
18. Termination by simply turning down the offer
Physical and Mental examination
rejection
How Federal Law has jurisdiction in a lawsuit
Stare Decisis
19. Language added to a court's opinion that is beyond what is needed; extra words offered as guidance
Qualifications for defamation
Medicare fraud
Dicta
Federalism
20. Type of intent to be proved; means a guilty state of mind
Depositions
counter offer
Supremacy clause
mens rea
21. A party may ask the court to order an examination to find out if physical or mental damage is relevant
Physical and Mental examination
Medicare fraud
Common Law
element 1 of a negligence lawsuit
22. Due process or the right to a hearing
fifth amendment
Qualifications for defamation
Total circuits in the court of appeals
Litigation
23. The opinion of Judges who agree with the holding - but for different reasons.
Concurring Opinion
strict liability
attractive nuisance
Number of Justices in the Supreme Court?
24. A subtype of rejection
Medicare fraud
operation of law
misdemeanor
counter offer
25. Majority
licensee
The percentage vote to pass a bill
Mail Fraud
Where the bill goes after conference committee
26. 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
second requirement of a contract
Where the bill goes after conference committee
fifth amendment
27. Type of intentnional tort; intentionally entering land that belongs to someone else or remaining on land after being asked to leave
trespass
For a bill to pass...
mens rea
Equal Protection Clause
28. Judge made law
negligent retention
Common Law
Appellee
Insurance Fraud
29. Freedom of speech.
Dissenting Opinion
first amendment
Contributory Negligence
Statute
30. Forseeable harm
actus reus
Separation of powers
element 4 of a negligence lawsuit
element 2 of a negligence lawsuit
31. Agreement (offer and acceptance)
breach of duty
first requirement of a contract
when a bill is introduced to the Sentate is must have...
Step two in filing a civil law suit
32. A defendant breaches his duty of due care by failing to behave the way a reasonable person would under similar circumstances
Assumption of the risk
breach of duty
element 2 of a negligence lawsuit
conversion
33. Sponsor.
First African American Justice
Conference committee
express contract
When a bill is introduced to the house of representatives it must have a...
34. Collected taxes and helped keep the peace in tenth century England. Equivalent to a modern day Sheriff.
Legal Issue Presented
Shire Reeves
Mediation
Assumption of the risk
35. Termination when the offeror dies or the physical contract is destroyed
Number of judges on the panel in the Court of Appeals
operation of law
Separation of powers
Federal District Court
36. Nine.
promissory estoppel
licensee
first amendment
Number of Justices in the Supreme Court?
37. Injury
assault
When a bill is introduced to the house of representatives it must have a...
element 5 of a negligence lawsuit
forseeable harm
38. 2/3 vote
For a bill to pass...
regulation of interstate commerce
John Locke
How much of a majority is it to override a presidents veto
39. Article I - Section 8
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40. 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
Supremacy clause
Federal District Court
actus reus
For a bill to pass...
41. Reference code; label for looking the case up
Citation
Strict scrutiny
Step three in filing a civil law suit
slander
42. Lack of opinion - malice as to public figures - negligence to private individuals
The percentage vote to pass a bill
To prove injury the defamation must show...
element 3 of a negligence lawsuit
attractive nuisance
43. Type of defamation tort; written defamation
Commercial Exploitation
conversion
French social commentator and political thinker who created the Separation of Powers theory
lible
44. When there is no contract - but the defendant makes a promise that will induce reliance. it would be unjust not to enforce the promise
coercion
Who regulates commercial speech
promissory estoppel
insanity
45. When the bill is debated to the floor of the house.
The last step of a bill in the House of representatives is...
counter offer
French social commentator and political thinker who created the Separation of Powers theory
Pocket Veto
46. Business tort; defendant improperly breached contract and causes injury to plaintiff
Tortious interference with a contract
After the bill is released from committees in the two houses - it goes...
Statute
Step two in filing a civil law suit
47. Type of intent to be proved; means the guilty act
licensee
actus reus
Ethics
revocation
48. 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
conversion
Step four in filing a civil law suit
false imprisonment
49. Wrote 'On the Laws and Customs of England'
Supremacy clause
fifth amendment
conversion(2)
Henry DeBracton
50. Law made by federal agencies; rules and regulations
Contributory Negligence
Year when 'On the Laws and Customs of England' was written
Administrative Law
Appellee