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Business Law Vocab - 2
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1. 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
Step one in filing a civil law suit
Minimal scrutiny
expiration
2. Forbidding a law to be passed
crime burden of proof
Bill of Right
Veto
slander
3. For the defendant to be liable - the type of harm must have been reasonably forseeable.
Number of Justices in the Supreme Court?
Who regulates commercial speech
Minimal scrutiny
forseeable harm
4. A person who volluntarily enters a situation that has an obvious danger cannot complain is he/she is injured
Assumption of the risk
In the house of representatives - after a bill has left the first committee - it travels to...
fifth amendment
Step two in filing a civil law suit
5. The documents that begin a lawsuit: consists of the complaint - answer and sometimes a reply
breach of duty
After the bill is released from committees in the two houses - it goes...
Pleadings
quasi contract
6. Type of intentional tort; an act that makes a person fear imminent battery
Negligence
sixth amendment
actus reus
assault
7. Guilty beyond a reasonable doubt
precedent
Step four in filing a civil law suit
crime burden of proof
element 5 of a negligence lawsuit
8. Reference code; label for looking the case up
Step one in filing a civil law suit
Citation
attractive nuisance
Defamation
9. Each side may ask the other side to produce relevant documents for inspection and copying.
Request of production of documents and things
Arson
letters of intent
The job of the Rules Committee
10. You have no duty to assist someone in peril unless you created the danger
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11. Section of the fourteenth amendment where courts must provide equal protection to all cases based on scrutiny
Depositions
Equal Protection Clause
mens rea
First Woman Justice
12. A less serious crime often punishable by less than one year in prison
Stare Decisis
misdemeanor
element 1 of a negligence lawsuit
licensee
13. Majority
Appellee
The percentage vote to pass a bill
assault
Filibuster
14. Defamation - obscenity - speech that creates danger
element 4 of a negligence lawsuit
Negligence per se
What is not protected under the first amendment
embezzlement
15. Trial.
Step four in filing a civil law suit
Depositions
Common Law
How much of a majority is it to override a presidents veto
16. The process of one party's lawyer to question the other party or a potential witness under oath.
Depositions
Shire Reeves
larceny
fifth amendment
17. 2/3 vote
Step four in filing a civil law suit
How much of a majority is it to override a presidents veto
Step three in filing a civil law suit
Arbitration
18. Article I - Section 8
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19. First 10 amendments of the constitution; Compromise between federalist and antifederalists; Protects natural rights of liberty and property
Bill of Right
When a bill is introduced to the house of representatives it must have a...
misdemeanor
Holding
20. Type of intent to be proved; means the guilty act
Insurance Fraud
third requirement of a contract
actus reus
Common Law
21. (1)misrepresentation (2)concealment with the intent to take advantage of someone; deception of a person for the purpose of obtaining money or property
Appellant
Fraud
Federal District Court
Number of judges on the panel in the Court of Appeals
22. Establishes the idea precendent
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23. Procedures for academic dismissal or dismissal from a government job
Commercial Exploitation
Mail box rule
Step three in filing a civil law suit
Procedural due process
24. Judges are obligated to follow precedent
Mail Fraud
Stare Decisis
larceny
Pleadings
25. The defendant (defamer) knew the statement was false or acted with reckless disregard to the truth
Malice
letters of intent
negligent retention
element 3 of a negligence lawsuit
26. Due process or the right to a hearing
Stare Decisis
felony
fifth amendment
misdemeanor
27. Requires a meeting of the minds
Step two in filing a civil law suit
agreement
Stare Decisis
Writ of Certiorari
28. Agreement (offer and acceptance)
First Woman Justice
first requirement of a contract
false imprisonment
Common Law
29. A document filed by the losing party requesting the federal court to appeal a case.
uniform commercial code
Administrative Law
What is not protected under the first amendment
Writ of Certiorari
30. When there is no contract - but the defendant makes a promise that will induce reliance. it would be unjust not to enforce the promise
What section of the Constitution grants congress it's powers?
promissory estoppel
mirror image rule
The last step of a bill in the House of representatives is...
31. The study of how people ought to act; does not always mean legal.
Medicare fraud
Writ of Certiorari
Ethics
Depositions
32. A tithing of 10 men put together to hold each other accountable. Anglo-saxon method of keeping the peace.
invitee
Collective Responsibility
mirror image rule
Style of a Case
33. Written questions that the opposing party must answer in writing under oath
Interrogatories
mirror image rule
implied contract
element 2 of a negligence lawsuit
34. Type of intentional tort; the intentional restraint of another without reasonable cause
Insurance Fraud
false imprisonment
battery
Style of a Case
35. During the option period of a contract
you cannot revoke an offer...
Negligence
How Federal Law has jurisdiction in a lawsuit
fifth amendment
36. Complaint and summons are served to defendant; answer is provided within 30 days
Substantial effect rule
Step one in filing a civil law suit
entrapment
Medicare fraud
37. Forseeable harm
breach of duty
element 4 of a negligence lawsuit
Administrative Law
first amendment
38. James Madison - 1789
assault
element 4 of a negligence lawsuit
Who regulates commercial speech
The primary drafter of the constitution
39. To the president.
Where the bill goes after conference committee
fourth amendment
Mail Fraud
In the house of representatives - after a bill has left the first committee - it travels to...
40. Action - print and other expression. Broader than the spoken word
John Locke
How much of a majority is it to override a presidents veto
What Freedom of speech includes
The job of the Rules Committee
41. Common law rule; acceptance must be made on the same terms as the offer
actus reus
mirror image rule
second requirement of a contract
Qualifications for defamation
42. Sandra Day Oconnor
First Woman Justice
element 2 of a negligence lawsuit
Where the bill goes after conference committee
Mail Fraud
43. Presiding officer (senator)
operation of law
assault
when a bill is introduced to the Sentate is must have...
agreement
44. Reasoning court gives for the holding
Administrative Law
revocation
element 1 of a negligence lawsuit
Rationale
45. If the plaintiff is even slightly negligent he/she recovers nothing
fourth requirement of a contract
Contributory Negligence
The last step of a bill in the House of representatives is...
Strict scrutiny
46. Injuries caused by neglect and oversight rather than deliberate conduct.
Request of production of documents and things
RICO
Defamation
Negligence and strict liability
47. Baron Montesquieu
first amendment
Year when 'On the Laws and Customs of England' was written
Filibuster
French social commentator and political thinker who created the Separation of Powers theory
48. A violation of a duty imposed by a civil law.
tort
Separation of powers
Fraud
trespass
49. Type of business crime; taking or using someones property
Incorporation clause
revocation
conversion(2)
Concurring Opinion
50. 1250
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