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Business Law Vocab - 2
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The introduction of a neutral third party in resolving a dispute; not a binding decision. Voluntary settlement.
Mediation
Contributory Negligence
embezzlement
Holding
2. A defendant breaches his duty of due care by failing to behave the way a reasonable person would under similar circumstances
fourth amendment
embezzlement
regulation of interstate commerce
breach of duty
3. A plaintiff may generally recover even if he/she is partially negligible
Substantial effect rule
licensee
Henry DeBracton
Comparative Fault
4. Faking car accidents and injury in order to gain a settlement
sixth amendment
RICO
Insurance Fraud
Comparative Fault
5. A tithing of 10 men put together to hold each other accountable. Anglo-saxon method of keeping the peace.
Concurring Opinion
Collective Responsibility
element 2 of a negligence lawsuit
Patriot Act
6. 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
Writ of Certiorari
sixth amendment
Step three in filing a civil law suit
How Federal Law has jurisdiction in a lawsuit
7. Type of defense; when the government induces the defendant to break the law.
The percentage vote to pass a bill
What section of the Constitution grants congress it's powers?
Where the bill goes after conference committee
entrapment
8. States who is suing who. Identifies parties.
Litigation
Concurring Opinion
Style of a Case
Legal Issue Presented
9. An act of a senate member to delay the close of debate or force a decision to be made.
Federal District Court
fourth requirement of a contract
Filibuster
attractive nuisance
10. A court will imply by conduct that there was an agreement between two parties
Current Chief Justice
implied contract
Rationale
Step three in filing a civil law suit
11. Type of intent to be proved; means the guilty act
rejection
Step two in filing a civil law suit
actus reus
Defamation
12. A letter that summarizes the negotiating progress
In the house of representatives - after a bill has left the first committee - it travels to...
Mediation
letters of intent
Comparative Fault
13. System of checks and balances within the federal government
first requirement of a contract
express contract
Separation of powers
assault
14. You have no duty to assist someone in peril unless you created the danger
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15. They set time limits for debate - decide how fast the law should be deliberated and when the bill goes to the floor for debate.
French social commentator and political thinker who created the Separation of Powers theory
second requirement of a contract
Negligence and strict liability
The job of the Rules Committee
16. Nine.
Number of Justices in the Supreme Court?
RICO
Arbitration
John Locke
17. Lack of opinion - malice as to public figures - negligence to private individuals
crime burden of proof
To prove injury the defamation must show...
Intermediate scrutiny
In a lawsuit attorneys have a burden of proof that shows liability by
18. Type of defamation tort; spoken defamation
forseeable harm
fourth amendment
element 2 of a negligence lawsuit
slander
19. A violation of a duty imposed by a civil law.
First African American Justice
intrusion
tort
fifth amendment
20. Injury
element 5 of a negligence lawsuit
licensee
embezzlement
negligent hiring
21. The floor/leadership - where it is debated upon with no time limit.
Physical and Mental examination
In the senate - after the bill leave committee it travels to...
revocation
attractive nuisance
22. Bottom Line answer
Holding
The percentage vote to pass a bill
revocation
Total circuits in the court of appeals
23. Consideration; the bargaining that leads to a deal
attractive nuisance
Collective Responsibility
second requirement of a contract
implied contract
24. Talking trash
promissory estoppel
Takings clause
conversion
Defamation
25. A person who is on your property with your permission; you owe them a higher duty of due care to warn of known dangers
licensee
Appellant
assault
What Freedom of speech includes
26. Judges who disagree with the majority holding; states their opposing opinion
implied contract
Style of a Case
Dissenting Opinion
Bill of Right
27. Any scheme that attempts to unlawfully obtain money or services illegally through the US postal service
insanity
Arson
Where the bill goes after conference committee
Mail Fraud
28. Business tort; intrusion in to someones private life; being a voyeur
Physical and Mental examination
slander
intrusion
element 4 of a negligence lawsuit
29. For the defendant to be liable - the type of harm must have been reasonably forseeable.
Veto
forseeable harm
misdemeanor
conversion
30. It must be voted on and approved by both houses and then approved by the president. then it is a law
How much of a majority is it to override a presidents veto
For a bill to pass...
Number of Justices in the Supreme Court?
intrusion
31. Business tort; using someones likeness or voice without their permission.
Patriot Act
Dicta
Commercial Exploitation
Res ipsa loquitor
32. If the plaintiff is even slightly negligent he/she recovers nothing
In the senate - after the bill leave committee it travels to...
intentional tort
Qualifications for defamation
Contributory Negligence
33. The obligation to decide current cases based on previous rulings.
Rationale
Filibuster
fourth requirement of a contract
precedent
34. Article I - Section 8
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35. If a company does not address an insubordinate employee - they become liable
Contributory Negligence
negligent retention
Appellant
Conference committee
36. Allows the FBI to surveillance citizens with out a search warrant from a judge
After the bill is released from committees in the two houses - it goes...
Filibuster
Res ipsa loquitor
Patriot Act
37. Type of defense; the defendant is incapable of forming mens rea
To prove injury the defamation must show...
operation of law
insanity
Supremacy clause
38. Business tort; defendant improperly breached contract and causes injury to plaintiff
Tortious interference with a contract
sixth amendment
Takings clause
To prove injury the defamation must show...
39. Trial.
What is not protected under the first amendment
Step four in filing a civil law suit
Negligence and strict liability
First Woman Justice
40. John Roberts
Current Chief Justice
misdemeanor
Malice
fifth amendment
41. Type of intentional tort; an act that makes a person fear imminent battery
Equal Protection Clause
assault
Insurance Fraud
felony
42. Unintentional tort - breach of a duty of care
Request of production of documents and things
false imprisonment
Negligence
Ethics
43. Section of the fourteenth amendment where courts must provide equal protection to all cases based on scrutiny
actus reus
Equal Protection Clause
Fraud
What Freedom of speech includes
44. Thurgood Marshall
First African American Justice
you cannot revoke an offer...
When a bill is introduced to the house of representatives it must have a...
What section of the Constitution grants congress it's powers?
45. Proposed statutes - submitted to Congress or a legislature
Bill
John Locke
coercion
actus reus
46. There was a breach of due care
Interrogatories
quasi contract
element 2 of a negligence lawsuit
How Federal Law has jurisdiction in a lawsuit
47. Malicious use of fire or explosives to damage or destroy real estate or property
Arson
What section of the Constitution grants congress it's powers?
rejection
Step four in filing a civil law suit
48. A party may ask the court to order an examination to find out if physical or mental damage is relevant
eighth amendment
Physical and Mental examination
Res ipsa loquitor
Interrogatories
49. A document filed by the losing party requesting the federal court to appeal a case.
fifth amendment
Writ of Certiorari
Medicare fraud
Procedural due process
50. Type of intent to be proved; means a guilty state of mind
Physical and Mental examination
Pocket Veto
element 3 of a negligence lawsuit
mens rea