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Business Law Vocab - 2
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1. Language added to a court's opinion that is beyond what is needed; extra words offered as guidance
Tortious interference with a contract
Shire Reeves
agreement
Dicta
2. Life - Liberty - Property
John Locke
Interrogatories
felony
When a bill is introduced to the house of representatives it must have a...
3. Unintentional tort - breach of a duty of care
Negligence
Rationale
Administrative Law
Stare Decisis
4. Three.
Number of judges on the panel in the Court of Appeals
second requirement of a contract
Current Chief Justice
misdemeanor
5. For the defendant to be liable - the type of harm must have been reasonably forseeable.
forseeable harm
First Woman Justice
RICO
Conference committee
6. A federal statute that applies to the sale of goods (NOT real estate or services)
element 3 of a negligence lawsuit
mens rea
uniform commercial code
Two types of dispute resolution
7. If the plaintiff is even slightly negligent he/she recovers nothing
Contributory Negligence
Separation of powers
counter offer
Defamation
8. It must be voted on and approved by both houses and then approved by the president. then it is a law
For a bill to pass...
Mail Fraud
Bill of Right
Appellee
9. The party opposing the appeal
Appellee
The percentage vote to pass a bill
After a bill enters the house of rep or senate - it goes where...
Tortious interference with a contract
10. Action - print and other expression. Broader than the spoken word
first amendment
Appellant
What Freedom of speech includes
intentional tort
11. Common law rule; acceptance must be made on the same terms as the offer
first requirement of a contract
operation of law
crime burden of proof
mirror image rule
12. A company becomes liable if they do not perform a background check
Comparative Fault
Malice
negligent hiring
Supremacy clause
13. Thurgood Marshall
Fraud
How Federal Law has jurisdiction in a lawsuit
First African American Justice
conversion(2)
14. Type of business crime; the fraudulent conversion of property already in the defendants posession.
embezzlement
expiration
Res ipsa loquitor
Step one in filing a civil law suit
15. Type of intentional tort; the intentional restraint of another without reasonable cause
In a lawsuit attorneys have a burden of proof that shows liability by
Bill
false imprisonment
Holding
16. Trial Court
Insurance Fraud
Supremacy clause
Equal Protection Clause
Federal District Court
17. Judge made law; based on precedent - which leads to stare decisis
operation of law
Common Law
precedent
What Freedom of speech includes
18. 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.
expiration
Strict scrutiny
Concurring Opinion
Collective Responsibility
19. Malicious use of fire or explosives to damage or destroy real estate or property
Who regulates commercial speech
Arson
Total circuits in the court of appeals
Insurance Fraud
20. Termination when an offer specifies a time limit for acceptance and the period is binding.
Mediation
Total circuits in the court of appeals
expiration
Pleadings
21. The party filing the appeal
Fraud
Appellant
attractive nuisance
sixth amendment
22. Baron Montesquieu
French social commentator and political thinker who created the Separation of Powers theory
invitee
The last step of a bill in the House of representatives is...
Current Chief Justice
23. A law passed by a legislative body
First Woman Justice
mirror image rule
Intermediate scrutiny
Statute
24. An act of a senate member to delay the close of debate or force a decision to be made.
crime burden of proof
The last step of a bill in the House of representatives is...
What section of the Constitution grants congress it's powers?
Filibuster
25. The study of how people ought to act; does not always mean legal.
In a lawsuit attorneys have a burden of proof that shows liability by
To prove injury the defamation must show...
Ethics
Insurance Fraud
26. 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
fifth amendment
Request of production of documents and things
Year when 'On the Laws and Customs of England' was written
27. Section of the fourteenth amendment where courts must provide equal protection to all cases based on scrutiny
Equal Protection Clause
slander
Mediation
licensee
28. James Madison - 1789
Intermediate scrutiny
element 3 of a negligence lawsuit
The primary drafter of the constitution
Collective Responsibility
29. 1250
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30. Forseeable harm
First African American Justice
Tortious interference with a contract
element 4 of a negligence lawsuit
intentional tort
31. Talking trash
Negligence and strict liability
mens rea
Commercial Exploitation
Defamation
32. The legal doctrine whereby an act is considered negligent because it violates a statute (or regulation)
second requirement of a contract
Negligence per se
Intermediate scrutiny
Comparative Fault
33. Lack of opinion - malice as to public figures - negligence to private individuals
To prove injury the defamation must show...
eighth amendment
Res ipsa loquitor
Number of judges on the panel in the Court of Appeals
34. A person who is on your property with your permission; you owe them a higher duty of due care to warn of known dangers
Assumption of the risk
Medicare fraud
rejection
licensee
35. A power granted to congress stating that congress may regulate trade between countries - other states and indian tribes
In the senate - after the bill leave committee it travels to...
What section of the Constitution grants congress it's powers?
regulation of interstate commerce
Negligence and strict liability
36. Injuries caused by neglect and oversight rather than deliberate conduct.
negligent retention
Negligence and strict liability
For a bill to pass...
precedent
37. Collected taxes and helped keep the peace in tenth century England. Equivalent to a modern day Sheriff.
Administrative Law
promissory estoppel
fourth requirement of a contract
Shire Reeves
38. Article I - Section 8
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39. Type of defense; when the government induces the defendant to break the law.
entrapment
Veto
Takings clause
misdemeanor
40. To the president.
intentional tort
Number of judges on the panel in the Court of Appeals
lible
Where the bill goes after conference committee
41. Capacity; the parties must be adults and mentally competent
Number of Justices in the Supreme Court?
uniform commercial code
Statute
fourth requirement of a contract
42. The process of one party's lawyer to question the other party or a potential witness under oath.
Malice
Depositions
you cannot revoke an offer...
Filibuster
43. The sharing of powers between levels of government
Federalism
Medicare fraud
rejection
Veto
44. Complaint and summons are served to defendant; answer is provided within 30 days
licensee
entrapment
Step one in filing a civil law suit
fifth amendment
45. A document filed by the losing party requesting the federal court to appeal a case.
Writ of Certiorari
coercion
element 3 of a negligence lawsuit
Mediation
46. Type of defamation tort; written defamation
Federal District Court
Conference committee
mens rea
lible
47. Type of intentional tort (and crime); injuring someone by deliberate deception
Strict scrutiny
Fraud
intentional tort
Bill of Right
48. 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
element 5 of a negligence lawsuit
Supremacy clause
implied contract
first requirement of a contract
49. To the conference committee
lible
How Federal Law has jurisdiction in a lawsuit
After the bill is released from committees in the two houses - it goes...
rejection
50. No unreasonable searches or seizures
expiration
Style of a Case
fourth amendment
element 4 of a negligence lawsuit