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Business Law Vocab - 2
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1. An offered can be terminated anytime before the offer has been accepted.
Stare Decisis
The percentage vote to pass a bill
Pocket Veto
revocation
2. Due process or the right to a hearing
Medicare fraud
fifth amendment
Number of Justices in the Supreme Court?
Contributory Negligence
3. Judges who disagree with the majority holding; states their opposing opinion
Wire Fraud
Dissenting Opinion
trespass
intrusion
4. Judges are obligated to follow precedent
Stare Decisis
First African American Justice
insanity
embezzlement
5. 2/3 vote
In a lawsuit attorneys have a burden of proof that shows liability by
Equal Protection Clause
How much of a majority is it to override a presidents veto
invitee
6. 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.
Strict scrutiny
larceny
conversion
Filibuster
7. If the proceedings of a business occur intrastate but will eventually effect proceedings interstate - this rule states that congress may interfere
fourth requirement of a contract
Substantial effect rule
operation of law
Collective Responsibility
8. Establishes the idea precendent
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9. System of checks and balances within the federal government
Separation of powers
Style of a Case
French social commentator and political thinker who created the Separation of Powers theory
mirror image rule
10. There was a breach of due care
element 2 of a negligence lawsuit
Voir Dire
Arson
Interrogatories
11. Talking trash
First Woman Justice
Defamation
negligent hiring
First African American Justice
12. The legal doctrine whereby an act is considered negligent because it violates a statute (or regulation)
Request of production of documents and things
sixth amendment
Negligence per se
First African American Justice
13. Lack of opinion - malice as to public figures - negligence to private individuals
Malice
mirror image rule
To prove injury the defamation must show...
Veto
14. A less serious crime often punishable by less than one year in prison
fourth amendment
Res ipsa loquitor
In a lawsuit attorneys have a burden of proof that shows liability by
misdemeanor
15. Termination when the offeror dies or the physical contract is destroyed
operation of law
first amendment
eighth amendment
Dissenting Opinion
16. The introduction of a neutral third party in resolving a dispute; not a binding decision. Voluntary settlement.
Mediation
fourth requirement of a contract
Federal District Court
expiration
17. Article I - Section 8
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18. Type of intentional tort; the intentional touching of an individual in a way that is unwarranted or offensive
In the house of representatives - after a bill has left the first committee - it travels to...
battery
intrusion
Common Law
19. 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
Step two in filing a civil law suit
agreement
mens rea
20. Legality; the subject matter must be legal
Physical and Mental examination
third requirement of a contract
first requirement of a contract
Writ of Certiorari
21. Binding; an offeror cannot withdraw
Mail box rule
fifth amendment
Veto
licensee
22. Business tort; intrusion in to someones private life; being a voyeur
When a bill is introduced to the house of representatives it must have a...
tort
Commercial Exploitation
intrusion
23. Requires a meeting of the minds
lible
negligent hiring
After a bill enters the house of rep or senate - it goes where...
agreement
24. States who is suing who. Identifies parties.
Appellee
Style of a Case
agreement
Commercial Exploitation
25. John Roberts
Collective Responsibility
Stare Decisis
Step four in filing a civil law suit
Current Chief Justice
26. Type of business crime; taking or using someones property
letters of intent
Defamation
conversion(2)
Insurance Fraud
27. Type of business crime; the fraudulent conversion of property already in the defendants posession.
mirror image rule
embezzlement
How Federal Law has jurisdiction in a lawsuit
forseeable harm
28. Arbitration and Mediation
element 2 of a negligence lawsuit
Current Chief Justice
Two types of dispute resolution
Number of judges on the panel in the Court of Appeals
29. Forbidding a law to be passed
Veto
Filibuster
agreement
mirror image rule
30. The obligation to decide current cases based on previous rulings.
precedent
Incorporation clause
Physical and Mental examination
rejection
31. Written questions that the opposing party must answer in writing under oath
Arbitration
Interrogatories
Procedural due process
Federal District Court
32. Sponsor.
mens rea
When a bill is introduced to the house of representatives it must have a...
Negligence
Supremacy clause
33. Aka imminent domain; government cant take a persons land unless they prove it will be used for a public purpose and provide proper compensation.
Takings clause
Negligence and strict liability
Litigation
Request of production of documents and things
34. A plaintiff may generally recover even if he/she is partially negligible
entrapment
Minimal scrutiny
Bystander's obligation means...
Comparative Fault
35. 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
promissory estoppel
How Federal Law has jurisdiction in a lawsuit
Concurring Opinion
Bill of Right
36. Sandra Day Oconnor
John Locke
fifth amendment
Separation of powers
First Woman Justice
37. Three.
Number of judges on the panel in the Court of Appeals
Supremacy clause
you cannot revoke an offer...
Minimal scrutiny
38. 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
slander
larceny
negligent hiring
fifth amendment
39. Type of intentional tort; the intentional restraint of another without reasonable cause
Defamation
third requirement of a contract
element 1 of a negligence lawsuit
false imprisonment
40. 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
coercion
entrapment
conversion(2)
Current Chief Justice
41. Action - print and other expression. Broader than the spoken word
Bill
forseeable harm
What Freedom of speech includes
fifth amendment
42. The documents that begin a lawsuit: consists of the complaint - answer and sometimes a reply
When a bill is introduced to the house of representatives it must have a...
first amendment
Equal Protection Clause
Pleadings
43. Type of defamation tort; spoken defamation
Appellant
slander
Physical and Mental examination
Fraud
44. A violation of a duty imposed by a civil law.
Statute
tort
battery
Where the bill goes after conference committee
45. There is an established duty of due care
lible
conversion(2)
How much of a majority is it to override a presidents veto
element 1 of a negligence lawsuit
46. When the bill is debated to the floor of the house.
assault
Substantial effect rule
Ethics
The last step of a bill in the House of representatives is...
47. A document filed by the losing party requesting the federal court to appeal a case.
Separation of powers
What section of the Constitution grants congress it's powers?
conversion
Writ of Certiorari
48. Freedom of speech.
first amendment
Interrogatories
Step one in filing a civil law suit
Statute
49. Life - Liberty - Property
Number of Justices in the Supreme Court?
conversion(2)
John Locke
fourth requirement of a contract
50. (1)misrepresentation (2)concealment with the intent to take advantage of someone; deception of a person for the purpose of obtaining money or property
Fraud
forseeable harm
Year when 'On the Laws and Customs of England' was written
Filibuster