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Business Law Vocab - 2
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1. Three.
Number of judges on the panel in the Court of Appeals
Step one in filing a civil law suit
First African American Justice
false imprisonment
2. Business tort; defendant improperly breached contract and causes injury to plaintiff
Tortious interference with a contract
Assumption of the risk
slander
conversion
3. Type of intent to be proved; means the guilty act
Two types of dispute resolution
Fraud
actus reus
Assumption of the risk
4. Type of business crime; taking or using someones property
Step two in filing a civil law suit
expiration
conversion(2)
John Locke
5. The rules committee where it is put on a calendar.
Separation of powers
licensee
In the house of representatives - after a bill has left the first committee - it travels to...
Conference committee
6. Article I - Section 8
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7. Attorneys ask jurors a set of questions to determine bias
licensee
Voir Dire
Common Law
revocation
8. Type of intentional tort; an act that makes a person fear imminent battery
assault
Contributory Negligence
Arbitration
Strict scrutiny
9. Law made by federal agencies; rules and regulations
Conference committee
Administrative Law
element 4 of a negligence lawsuit
attractive nuisance
10. Due process or the right to a hearing
Equal Protection Clause
fifth amendment
For a bill to pass...
In a lawsuit attorneys have a burden of proof that shows liability by
11. Thurgood Marshall
Strict scrutiny
Takings clause
First African American Justice
Number of judges on the panel in the Court of Appeals
12. Type of defense; the defendant is incapable of forming mens rea
How Federal Law has jurisdiction in a lawsuit
Writ of Certiorari
Ethics
insanity
13. Type of tort; taking someone elses property without consent.
Style of a Case
tort
conversion
Arson
14. Termination when an offer specifies a time limit for acceptance and the period is binding.
Negligence and strict liability
Tortious interference with a contract
First Woman Justice
expiration
15. 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
What is not protected under the first amendment
Writ of Certiorari
Henry DeBracton
16. The study of how people ought to act; does not always mean legal.
Appellee
Ethics
Qualifications for defamation
breach of duty
17. Collected taxes and helped keep the peace in tenth century England. Equivalent to a modern day Sheriff.
Shire Reeves
First Woman Justice
Insurance Fraud
Contributory Negligence
18. Wrote 'On the Laws and Customs of England'
Henry DeBracton
misdemeanor
felony
element 2 of a negligence lawsuit
19. Right to an attorney when facing a prison sentence
breach of duty
Mail box rule
sixth amendment
Bill of Right
20. Items such as trampolines and swimming pools; defendant is liable if there is no protection
lible
attractive nuisance
sixth amendment
Bystander's obligation means...
21. 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
Pleadings
regulation of interstate commerce
intentional tort
22. Someone on the property by right of a public place. highest duty of due care is owed to avoid negligence
Stare Decisis
invitee
Dissenting Opinion
express contract
23. They set time limits for debate - decide how fast the law should be deliberated and when the bill goes to the floor for debate.
The job of the Rules Committee
second requirement of a contract
Federal District Court
Number of judges on the panel in the Court of Appeals
24. Type of defamation tort; spoken defamation
trespass
fourth amendment
Henry DeBracton
slander
25. Establishes the idea precendent
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26. Procedures for academic dismissal or dismissal from a government job
Year when 'On the Laws and Customs of England' was written
Bill of Right
Procedural due process
What is not protected under the first amendment
27. The legal doctrine whereby an act is considered negligent because it violates a statute (or regulation)
Negligence per se
lible
For a bill to pass...
In the senate - after the bill leave committee it travels to...
28. Binding; an offeror cannot withdraw
Pocket Veto
Equal Protection Clause
Pleadings
Mail box rule
29. For the defendant to be liable - the type of harm must have been reasonably forseeable.
forseeable harm
How much of a majority is it to override a presidents veto
sixth amendment
operation of law
30. The introduction of a neutral third party in resolving a dispute; not a binding decision. Voluntary settlement.
actus reus
element 1 of a negligence lawsuit
Mediation
Negligence per se
31. The sharing of powers between levels of government
Mail Fraud
Res ipsa loquitor
Federalism
entrapment
32. Life - Liberty - Property
Common Law
actus reus
John Locke
Year when 'On the Laws and Customs of England' was written
33. John Roberts
eighth amendment
First African American Justice
Current Chief Justice
intentional tort
34. 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
agreement
French social commentator and political thinker who created the Separation of Powers theory
element 4 of a negligence lawsuit
RICO
35. Allows the FBI to surveillance citizens with out a search warrant from a judge
coercion
Patriot Act
Pleadings
sixth amendment
36. Nine.
Medicare fraud
Appellee
Number of Justices in the Supreme Court?
insanity
37. A company becomes liable if they do not perform a background check
Mail box rule
In the house of representatives - after a bill has left the first committee - it travels to...
negligent hiring
Appellee
38. Type of intent to be proved; means a guilty state of mind
trespass
mens rea
Administrative Law
Negligence
39. The documents that begin a lawsuit: consists of the complaint - answer and sometimes a reply
Legal Issue Presented
Minimal scrutiny
Pleadings
trespass
40. 1250
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41. A court will imply by conduct that there was an agreement between two parties
operation of law
express contract
implied contract
regulation of interstate commerce
42. Bottom Line answer
Holding
revocation
Comparative Fault
Negligence per se
43. During the option period of a contract
fourth amendment
conversion
Negligence
you cannot revoke an offer...
44. Preponderance of the evidence
In a lawsuit attorneys have a burden of proof that shows liability by
uniform commercial code
licensee
Statute
45. FCC (Federal Communications Commission)
Fraud
Stare Decisis
Who regulates commercial speech
misdemeanor
46. Laws involving economic and social regulation; laws that regard economic or social status are presumed valid and corporations and people can be classified
Bill
false imprisonment
Minimal scrutiny
first requirement of a contract
47. Legality; the subject matter must be legal
For a bill to pass...
third requirement of a contract
coercion
First Woman Justice
48. Reference code; label for looking the case up
Citation
element 4 of a negligence lawsuit
actus reus
Common Law
49. A power granted to congress stating that congress may regulate trade between countries - other states and indian tribes
For a bill to pass...
First African American Justice
Step one in filing a civil law suit
regulation of interstate commerce
50. Capacity; the parties must be adults and mentally competent
fourth requirement of a contract
Supremacy clause
To prove injury the defamation must show...
Intermediate scrutiny