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Business Law Vocab - 2
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Majority
The percentage vote to pass a bill
Wire Fraud
What is not protected under the first amendment
Medicare fraud
2. Business tort; intrusion in to someones private life; being a voyeur
intrusion
operation of law
negligent retention
eighth amendment
3. Attorneys ask jurors a set of questions to determine bias
breach of duty
Voir Dire
Rationale
counter offer
4. You have no duty to assist someone in peril unless you created the danger
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5. An offered can be terminated anytime before the offer has been accepted.
insanity
Contributory Negligence
Mail box rule
revocation
6. Cruel and unusual punishment
In the senate - after the bill leave committee it travels to...
eighth amendment
Collective Responsibility
tort
7. Forbidding a law to be passed
licensee
Physical and Mental examination
Assumption of the risk
Veto
8. Type of defense; when the government induces the defendant to break the law.
intrusion
Number of Justices in the Supreme Court?
Legal Issue Presented
entrapment
9. 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
implied contract
element 5 of a negligence lawsuit
Dicta
10. 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...
crime burden of proof
breach of duty
operation of law
11. A company becomes liable if they do not perform a background check
breach of duty
negligent hiring
Fraud
mirror image rule
12. A tithing of 10 men put together to hold each other accountable. Anglo-saxon method of keeping the peace.
Commercial Exploitation
express contract
Collective Responsibility
Minimal scrutiny
13. Items such as trampolines and swimming pools; defendant is liable if there is no protection
lible
embezzlement
attractive nuisance
counter offer
14. The process of one party's lawyer to question the other party or a potential witness under oath.
agreement
Contributory Negligence
Depositions
crime burden of proof
15. No self incrimination / due process (miranda warnings)
conversion(2)
Minimal scrutiny
Commercial Exploitation
fifth amendment
16. The floor/leadership - where it is debated upon with no time limit.
In the senate - after the bill leave committee it travels to...
attractive nuisance
Common Law
Bill
17. Article I - Section 8
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18. A plaintiff may generally recover even if he/she is partially negligible
felony
Comparative Fault
Takings clause
Shire Reeves
19. Presiding officer (senator)
For a bill to pass...
Tortious interference with a contract
when a bill is introduced to the Sentate is must have...
Physical and Mental examination
20. Punishable by a prison sentence of one year or more
felony
Medicare fraud
lible
coercion
21. The documents that begin a lawsuit: consists of the complaint - answer and sometimes a reply
Request of production of documents and things
Pleadings
Incorporation clause
Concurring Opinion
22. The obligation to decide current cases based on previous rulings.
Tortious interference with a contract
Malice
What section of the Constitution grants congress it's powers?
precedent
23. Termination when an offer specifies a time limit for acceptance and the period is binding.
Medicare fraud
precedent
Request of production of documents and things
expiration
24. When a law remains untouched on the presidents desk for over 10 days after congress's adjournment
Pocket Veto
second requirement of a contract
Wire Fraud
Common Law
25. Allows the FBI to surveillance citizens with out a search warrant from a judge
In the senate - after the bill leave committee it travels to...
Patriot Act
In a lawsuit attorneys have a burden of proof that shows liability by
Bystander's obligation means...
26. Type of intentional tort; an act that makes a person fear imminent battery
assault
Veto
Interrogatories
fifth amendment
27. A law passed by a legislative body
Fraud
crime burden of proof
Statute
uniform commercial code
28. Gender related; such laws must be substantially related to important government objectives. (gov't cant discriminate based on gender through the law making process)
regulation of interstate commerce
Holding
After a bill enters the house of rep or senate - it goes where...
Intermediate scrutiny
29. Sandra Day Oconnor
fifth amendment
Federalism
First Woman Justice
element 1 of a negligence lawsuit
30. Discovery phase: chance for the party to learn about its opponent.
Appellee
Common Law
Step two in filing a civil law suit
Voir Dire
31. Procedures for academic dismissal or dismissal from a government job
fourth requirement of a contract
Procedural due process
Rationale
Common Law
32. Defamation - obscenity - speech that creates danger
What is not protected under the first amendment
implied contract
Fraud
Shire Reeves
33. Each side may ask the other side to produce relevant documents for inspection and copying.
Request of production of documents and things
Who regulates commercial speech
third requirement of a contract
licensee
34. (1)statement (2)falseness (3)communicated (4)injury
In the house of representatives - after a bill has left the first committee - it travels to...
element 5 of a negligence lawsuit
Qualifications for defamation
mirror image rule
35. Collected taxes and helped keep the peace in tenth century England. Equivalent to a modern day Sheriff.
precedent
first requirement of a contract
Shire Reeves
fifth amendment
36. Type of intentnional tort; intentionally entering land that belongs to someone else or remaining on land after being asked to leave
Contributory Negligence
Supremacy clause
trespass
To prove injury the defamation must show...
37. The introduction of a neutral third party in resolving a dispute; not a binding decision. Voluntary settlement.
Substantial effect rule
Minimal scrutiny
Mediation
entrapment
38. Type of intentional tort (and crime); injuring someone by deliberate deception
Fraud
Statute
sixth amendment
The job of the Rules Committee
39. The legal question that is posed in a case
false imprisonment
Legal Issue Presented
Depositions
Fraud
40. If the plaintiff is even slightly negligent he/she recovers nothing
Contributory Negligence
precedent
negligent retention
Concurring Opinion
41. A defendant engaging in an ultrahazardous activity is virtually always liable for any harm that results
Substantial effect rule
felony
strict liability
The job of the Rules Committee
42. Type of defamation tort; written defamation
forseeable harm
Fraud
Ethics
lible
43. 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
The last step of a bill in the House of representatives is...
Physical and Mental examination
Style of a Case
coercion
44. Right to an attorney when facing a prison sentence
sixth amendment
Dissenting Opinion
Step three in filing a civil law suit
Intermediate scrutiny
45. Type of intent to be proved; means a guilty state of mind
operation of law
fourth amendment
Step four in filing a civil law suit
mens rea
46. A defendant breaches his duty of due care by failing to behave the way a reasonable person would under similar circumstances
negligent hiring
breach of duty
attractive nuisance
Conference committee
47. Type of business crime; the fraudulent conversion of property already in the defendants posession.
Rationale
Veto
Depositions
embezzlement
48. Refers to lawsuits; the process of filing claims to courts
Bystander's obligation means...
Litigation
Negligence per se
The job of the Rules Committee
49. Life - Liberty - Property
third requirement of a contract
Mediation
assault
John Locke
50. There is an established duty of due care
Procedural due process
In the house of representatives - after a bill has left the first committee - it travels to...
Substantial effect rule
element 1 of a negligence lawsuit