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Business Law Vocab - 2
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1. Action - print and other expression. Broader than the spoken word
What Freedom of speech includes
quasi contract
Collective Responsibility
RICO
2. Baron Montesquieu
French social commentator and political thinker who created the Separation of Powers theory
when a bill is introduced to the Sentate is must have...
Total circuits in the court of appeals
operation of law
3. Reference code; label for looking the case up
Pocket Veto
Citation
Negligence and strict liability
Total circuits in the court of appeals
4. For the defendant to be liable - the type of harm must have been reasonably forseeable.
forseeable harm
Federal District Court
Common Law
fifth amendment
5. Any scheme that attempts to unlawfully obtain money or services illegally through the US postal service
felony
agreement
Mail Fraud
implied contract
6. 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.
Collective Responsibility
Request of production of documents and things
mirror image rule
Conference committee
7. Business tort; using someones likeness or voice without their permission.
The percentage vote to pass a bill
Appellant
actus reus
Commercial Exploitation
8. It must be voted on and approved by both houses and then approved by the president. then it is a law
After the bill is released from committees in the two houses - it goes...
For a bill to pass...
Equal Protection Clause
sixth amendment
9. Judges who disagree with the majority holding; states their opposing opinion
Contributory Negligence
Res ipsa loquitor
Dissenting Opinion
forseeable harm
10. Items such as trampolines and swimming pools; defendant is liable if there is no protection
Pleadings
attractive nuisance
The percentage vote to pass a bill
quasi contract
11. Bottom Line answer
felony
How Federal Law has jurisdiction in a lawsuit
The primary drafter of the constitution
Holding
12. A company becomes liable if they do not perform a background check
licensee
Voir Dire
Fraud
negligent hiring
13. Judge made law
Common Law
felony
Arbitration
Incorporation clause
14. Laws involving economic and social regulation; laws that regard economic or social status are presumed valid and corporations and people can be classified
Litigation
Interrogatories
element 3 of a negligence lawsuit
Minimal scrutiny
15. A court will imply by conduct that there was an agreement between two parties
implied contract
What section of the Constitution grants congress it's powers?
attractive nuisance
Legal Issue Presented
16. If the proceedings of a business occur intrastate but will eventually effect proceedings interstate - this rule states that congress may interfere
Concurring Opinion
slander
Substantial effect rule
Henry DeBracton
17. Complaint and summons are served to defendant; answer is provided within 30 days
Common Law
Step one in filing a civil law suit
Year when 'On the Laws and Customs of England' was written
fifth amendment
18. The party opposing the appeal
eighth amendment
Collective Responsibility
RICO
Appellee
19. A subtype of rejection
strict liability
counter offer
trespass
Federalism
20. Legality; the subject matter must be legal
battery
third requirement of a contract
Style of a Case
mens rea
21. Three.
Number of judges on the panel in the Court of Appeals
Fraud
Two types of dispute resolution
Where the bill goes after conference committee
22. Injury
negligent retention
Defamation
first requirement of a contract
element 5 of a negligence lawsuit
23. When a law remains untouched on the presidents desk for over 10 days after congress's adjournment
Interrogatories
Pocket Veto
Year when 'On the Laws and Customs of England' was written
agreement
24. Type of defense; when the government induces the defendant to break the law.
Legal Issue Presented
entrapment
promissory estoppel
What section of the Constitution grants congress it's powers?
25. Capacity; the parties must be adults and mentally competent
mens rea
insanity
fourth requirement of a contract
Bystander's obligation means...
26. Talking trash
forseeable harm
Defamation
element 1 of a negligence lawsuit
insanity
27. Forseeable harm
trespass
element 4 of a negligence lawsuit
Substantial effect rule
precedent
28. A defendant engaging in an ultrahazardous activity is virtually always liable for any harm that results
strict liability
fourth requirement of a contract
attractive nuisance
After the bill is released from committees in the two houses - it goes...
29. Guilty beyond a reasonable doubt
crime burden of proof
Procedural due process
Federalism
Administrative Law
30. If a company does not address an insubordinate employee - they become liable
negligent retention
attractive nuisance
Comparative Fault
Negligence per se
31. Attorneys ask jurors a set of questions to determine bias
The job of the Rules Committee
Bill
attractive nuisance
Voir Dire
32. To the conference committee
Number of judges on the panel in the Court of Appeals
In a lawsuit attorneys have a burden of proof that shows liability by
After the bill is released from committees in the two houses - it goes...
Holding
33. (1)statement (2)falseness (3)communicated (4)injury
expiration
Bill of Right
Qualifications for defamation
Arbitration
34. Unintentional tort - breach of a duty of care
Comparative Fault
actus reus
sixth amendment
Negligence
35. 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
eighth amendment
attractive nuisance
How Federal Law has jurisdiction in a lawsuit
Bystander's obligation means...
36. Fraud using electronic communications of any kind;
Number of Justices in the Supreme Court?
Wire Fraud
third requirement of a contract
uniform commercial code
37. 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
rejection
Negligence per se
larceny
Style of a Case
38. Using false statements or bribes to obtain medicare payments from the federal or state government
element 2 of a negligence lawsuit
fourth amendment
conversion(2)
Medicare fraud
39. Type of defense; the defendant is incapable of forming mens rea
insanity
battery
Style of a Case
Fraud
40. When there is no contract - but the defendant makes a promise that will induce reliance. it would be unjust not to enforce the promise
Year when 'On the Laws and Customs of England' was written
promissory estoppel
Defamation
Tortious interference with a contract
41. Aka imminent domain; government cant take a persons land unless they prove it will be used for a public purpose and provide proper compensation.
Defamation
Takings clause
French social commentator and political thinker who created the Separation of Powers theory
element 1 of a negligence lawsuit
42. Article I - Section 8
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43. Type of tort; taking someone elses property without consent.
What section of the Constitution grants congress it's powers?
element 5 of a negligence lawsuit
French social commentator and political thinker who created the Separation of Powers theory
conversion
44. Type of intentional tort (and crime); injuring someone by deliberate deception
Fraud
Bill
Shire Reeves
Step three in filing a civil law suit
45. A contract put in writing laying out all of the terms
actus reus
express contract
quasi contract
Wire Fraud
46. Right to an attorney when facing a prison sentence
Commercial Exploitation
regulation of interstate commerce
Negligence and strict liability
sixth amendment
47. Binding; an offeror cannot withdraw
Mail box rule
Total circuits in the court of appeals
uniform commercial code
Qualifications for defamation
48. Common law rule; acceptance must be made on the same terms as the offer
battery
mirror image rule
Separation of powers
fifth amendment
49. The defendant (defamer) knew the statement was false or acted with reckless disregard to the truth
element 3 of a negligence lawsuit
Malice
To prove injury the defamation must show...
licensee
50. Each side may ask the other side to produce relevant documents for inspection and copying.
Request of production of documents and things
Citation
RICO
Significance of 'On the Laws and Customs of England'