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Business Law Vocab - 2
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Lack of opinion - malice as to public figures - negligence to private individuals
negligent retention
Step three in filing a civil law suit
negligent hiring
To prove injury the defamation must show...
2. Any scheme that attempts to unlawfully obtain money or services illegally through the US postal service
Mail Fraud
eighth amendment
negligent retention
Minimal scrutiny
3. There was a breach of due care
element 2 of a negligence lawsuit
Negligence per se
uniform commercial code
In the house of representatives - after a bill has left the first committee - it travels to...
4. Injuries caused by neglect and oversight rather than deliberate conduct.
Medicare fraud
French social commentator and political thinker who created the Separation of Powers theory
Negligence and strict liability
Insurance Fraud
5. Business tort; defendant improperly breached contract and causes injury to plaintiff
Incorporation clause
Tortious interference with a contract
Contributory Negligence
Insurance Fraud
6. A violation of a duty imposed by a civil law.
Supremacy clause
tort
negligent retention
fifth amendment
7. Procedures for academic dismissal or dismissal from a government job
Year when 'On the Laws and Customs of England' was written
Procedural due process
agreement
Minimal scrutiny
8. Wrote 'On the Laws and Customs of England'
Henry DeBracton
Qualifications for defamation
RICO
Dicta
9. 1250
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10. There is an established duty of due care
Filibuster
element 1 of a negligence lawsuit
entrapment
Procedural due process
11. 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
Concurring Opinion
Conference committee
coercion
letters of intent
12. Action - print and other expression. Broader than the spoken word
element 4 of a negligence lawsuit
The job of the Rules Committee
negligent retention
What Freedom of speech includes
13. Using two or more racketeering acts to accomplish any of the following goals: (1) investing or acquiring legitimate businesses with criminal money (2)maintaining or acquiring businesses through criminal activity
intentional tort
RICO
forseeable harm
Incorporation clause
14. Majority
Supremacy clause
lible
Fraud
The percentage vote to pass a bill
15. Cruel and unusual punishment
eighth amendment
mens rea
After the bill is released from committees in the two houses - it goes...
breach of duty
16. When the bill is debated to the floor of the house.
Interrogatories
The last step of a bill in the House of representatives is...
Bystander's obligation means...
Mail Fraud
17. 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
How Federal Law has jurisdiction in a lawsuit
Pocket Veto
Malice
uniform commercial code
18. Refers to lawsuits; the process of filing claims to courts
Litigation
First Woman Justice
Dicta
entrapment
19. Proposed statutes - submitted to Congress or a legislature
Step one in filing a civil law suit
Bill
Separation of powers
Appellant
20. The rules committee where it is put on a calendar.
Substantial effect rule
coercion
invitee
In the house of representatives - after a bill has left the first committee - it travels to...
21. Type of intentional tort; the intentional restraint of another without reasonable cause
misdemeanor
How Federal Law has jurisdiction in a lawsuit
larceny
false imprisonment
22. Binding; an offeror cannot withdraw
Year when 'On the Laws and Customs of England' was written
Mail box rule
express contract
Dicta
23. Life - Liberty - Property
implied contract
Appellant
John Locke
The percentage vote to pass a bill
24. A person who volluntarily enters a situation that has an obvious danger cannot complain is he/she is injured
Assumption of the risk
Incorporation clause
forseeable harm
Wire Fraud
25. Forseeable harm
Where the bill goes after conference committee
Appellee
element 4 of a negligence lawsuit
To prove injury the defamation must show...
26. A court will imply by conduct that there was an agreement between two parties
Wire Fraud
rejection
Fraud
implied contract
27. Capacity; the parties must be adults and mentally competent
fourth requirement of a contract
To prove injury the defamation must show...
expiration
Mediation
28. Complaint and summons are served to defendant; answer is provided within 30 days
Appellant
Step one in filing a civil law suit
Holding
fourth requirement of a contract
29. Trial.
What is not protected under the first amendment
precedent
Step four in filing a civil law suit
Commercial Exploitation
30. Establishes the idea precendent
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31. An offered can be terminated anytime before the offer has been accepted.
trespass
revocation
John Locke
Style of a Case
32. The party opposing the appeal
conversion(2)
element 2 of a negligence lawsuit
Appellee
Incorporation clause
33. Guilty beyond a reasonable doubt
larceny
when a bill is introduced to the Sentate is must have...
expiration
crime burden of proof
34. Type of intentional tort; an act that makes a person fear imminent battery
The primary drafter of the constitution
How much of a majority is it to override a presidents veto
assault
The job of the Rules Committee
35. To the president.
Appellee
Where the bill goes after conference committee
Style of a Case
conversion
36. Baron Montesquieu
Two types of dispute resolution
Patriot Act
French social commentator and political thinker who created the Separation of Powers theory
Where the bill goes after conference committee
37. During the option period of a contract
Pleadings
How Federal Law has jurisdiction in a lawsuit
you cannot revoke an offer...
breach of duty
38. Talking trash
operation of law
The primary drafter of the constitution
Defamation
Style of a Case
39. No unreasonable searches or seizures
First African American Justice
Strict scrutiny
fourth amendment
Wire Fraud
40. No self incrimination / due process (miranda warnings)
Arbitration
Year when 'On the Laws and Customs of England' was written
fifth amendment
fourth amendment
41. 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
Pocket Veto
larceny
Who regulates commercial speech
first amendment
42. Discovery phase: chance for the party to learn about its opponent.
precedent
eighth amendment
Mediation
Step two in filing a civil law suit
43. A federal statute that applies to the sale of goods (NOT real estate or services)
first requirement of a contract
uniform commercial code
embezzlement
John Locke
44. Type of defense; when the government induces the defendant to break the law.
intentional tort
mens rea
entrapment
fourth requirement of a contract
45. A power granted to congress stating that congress may regulate trade between countries - other states and indian tribes
regulation of interstate commerce
Step four in filing a civil law suit
Minimal scrutiny
invitee
46. Type of defamation tort; written defamation
expiration
Legal Issue Presented
lible
fourth amendment
47. System of checks and balances within the federal government
Litigation
Separation of powers
Takings clause
Equal Protection Clause
48. Type of tort; taking someone elses property without consent.
Federalism
negligent retention
conversion
intrusion
49. Gender related; such laws must be substantially related to important government objectives. (gov't cant discriminate based on gender through the law making process)
Assumption of the risk
forseeable harm
counter offer
Intermediate scrutiny
50. The introduction of a neutral third party in resolving a dispute; not a binding decision. Voluntary settlement.
Mediation
Litigation
forseeable harm
entrapment