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Business Law Vocab - 2
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1. There was a breach of due care
Dissenting Opinion
Wire Fraud
felony
element 2 of a negligence lawsuit
2. The defendant (defamer) knew the statement was false or acted with reckless disregard to the truth
tort
The job of the Rules Committee
Rationale
Malice
3. Any scheme that attempts to unlawfully obtain money or services illegally through the US postal service
When a bill is introduced to the house of representatives it must have a...
Mail Fraud
Strict scrutiny
uniform commercial code
4. Type of business crime; taking or using someones property
agreement
conversion(2)
Conference committee
element 2 of a negligence lawsuit
5. Each side may ask the other side to produce relevant documents for inspection and copying.
Concurring Opinion
How much of a majority is it to override a presidents veto
Request of production of documents and things
misdemeanor
6. Reference code; label for looking the case up
Citation
Wire Fraud
licensee
Negligence per se
7. A letter that summarizes the negotiating progress
felony
Substantial effect rule
element 2 of a negligence lawsuit
letters of intent
8. Arbitration and Mediation
licensee
Two types of dispute resolution
The percentage vote to pass a bill
negligent hiring
9. Defamation - obscenity - speech that creates danger
counter offer
Pocket Veto
What is not protected under the first amendment
French social commentator and political thinker who created the Separation of Powers theory
10. A company becomes liable if they do not perform a background check
Step one in filing a civil law suit
Fraud
Style of a Case
negligent hiring
11. States who is suing who. Identifies parties.
Shire Reeves
attractive nuisance
Pleadings
Style of a Case
12. When there is no contract - but the defendant makes a promise that will induce reliance. it would be unjust not to enforce the promise
Current Chief Justice
Tortious interference with a contract
promissory estoppel
strict liability
13. Injury
RICO
element 5 of a negligence lawsuit
you cannot revoke an offer...
Common Law
14. System of checks and balances within the federal government
Separation of powers
Request of production of documents and things
In the senate - after the bill leave committee it travels to...
second requirement of a contract
15. A federal statute that applies to the sale of goods (NOT real estate or services)
revocation
Supremacy clause
uniform commercial code
Statute
16. (1)statement (2)falseness (3)communicated (4)injury
First Woman Justice
Appellant
entrapment
Qualifications for defamation
17. Collected taxes and helped keep the peace in tenth century England. Equivalent to a modern day Sheriff.
Appellee
Administrative Law
Shire Reeves
The primary drafter of the constitution
18. Establishes the idea precendent
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19. A law passed by a legislative body
The last step of a bill in the House of representatives is...
Statute
Step three in filing a civil law suit
quasi contract
20. Type of defense; the defendant is incapable of forming mens rea
insanity
Wire Fraud
Administrative Law
Litigation
21. First 10 amendments of the constitution; Compromise between federalist and antifederalists; Protects natural rights of liberty and property
Bill of Right
Insurance Fraud
Common Law
Voir Dire
22. Presiding officer (senator)
when a bill is introduced to the Sentate is must have...
RICO
Number of Justices in the Supreme Court?
Fraud
23. It must be voted on and approved by both houses and then approved by the president. then it is a law
Significance of 'On the Laws and Customs of England'
Depositions
For a bill to pass...
sixth amendment
24. Capacity; the parties must be adults and mentally competent
negligent retention
Mail box rule
What Freedom of speech includes
fourth requirement of a contract
25. Type of tort; taking someone elses property without consent.
conversion
fifth amendment
fourth amendment
After the bill is released from committees in the two houses - it goes...
26. Termination when an offer specifies a time limit for acceptance and the period is binding.
you cannot revoke an offer...
expiration
conversion
entrapment
27. Type of intentnional tort; intentionally entering land that belongs to someone else or remaining on land after being asked to leave
conversion
Bill of Right
trespass
The job of the Rules Committee
28. Attorneys ask jurors a set of questions to determine bias
fifth amendment
conversion(2)
Voir Dire
Federalism
29. Thurgood Marshall
First African American Justice
when a bill is introduced to the Sentate is must have...
Appellant
Step four in filing a civil law suit
30. There is no intention to a contract but the plaintiff gives some benefit to the defendant who knows the plaintiff expects compensation. it would be unjust not to award the damages.
Arbitration
quasi contract
Substantial effect rule
intentional tort
31. Forseeable harm
operation of law
element 4 of a negligence lawsuit
Request of production of documents and things
larceny
32. The rules committee where it is put on a calendar.
element 5 of a negligence lawsuit
In the house of representatives - after a bill has left the first committee - it travels to...
Bill
crime burden of proof
33. Consists of two members of the House of Representatives and two members of the senate; they try to compromise between two edited versions of a bill to make it equal.
Conference committee
strict liability
invitee
element 4 of a negligence lawsuit
34. Due process or the right to a hearing
first requirement of a contract
operation of law
fifth amendment
sixth amendment
35. No unreasonable searches or seizures
fourth amendment
What Freedom of speech includes
Filibuster
Bill of Right
36. Section of the fourteenth amendment where courts must provide equal protection to all cases based on scrutiny
counter offer
you cannot revoke an offer...
Equal Protection Clause
The percentage vote to pass a bill
37. Type of intentional tort; the intentional touching of an individual in a way that is unwarranted or offensive
element 3 of a negligence lawsuit
battery
Step three in filing a civil law suit
Style of a Case
38. The party opposing the appeal
Takings clause
Minimal scrutiny
Voir Dire
Appellee
39. Consideration; the bargaining that leads to a deal
second requirement of a contract
Dissenting Opinion
element 3 of a negligence lawsuit
attractive nuisance
40. A plaintiff may generally recover even if he/she is partially negligible
Pocket Veto
Commercial Exploitation
Comparative Fault
Henry DeBracton
41. The documents that begin a lawsuit: consists of the complaint - answer and sometimes a reply
Mail box rule
Where the bill goes after conference committee
misdemeanor
Pleadings
42. 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
French social commentator and political thinker who created the Separation of Powers theory
Common Law
Qualifications for defamation
43. Unintentional tort - breach of a duty of care
Negligence
Significance of 'On the Laws and Customs of England'
insanity
Contributory Negligence
44. Type of defamation tort; written defamation
lible
Citation
The percentage vote to pass a bill
intrusion
45. Trial Court
Federal District Court
In the senate - after the bill leave committee it travels to...
intentional tort
Ethics
46. Termination by simply turning down the offer
What Freedom of speech includes
Step two in filing a civil law suit
John Locke
rejection
47. Written questions that the opposing party must answer in writing under oath
Who regulates commercial speech
Interrogatories
Intermediate scrutiny
revocation
48. Law made by federal agencies; rules and regulations
second requirement of a contract
Bill of Right
Administrative Law
crime burden of proof
49. A tithing of 10 men put together to hold each other accountable. Anglo-saxon method of keeping the peace.
element 4 of a negligence lawsuit
Statute
Collective Responsibility
Filibuster
50. If the plaintiff is even slightly negligent he/she recovers nothing
Substantial effect rule
Contributory Negligence
Minimal scrutiny
Pleadings