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Business Law Vocab - 2
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Termination when the offeror dies or the physical contract is destroyed
operation of law
Dissenting Opinion
Citation
Assumption of the risk
2. Lack of opinion - malice as to public figures - negligence to private individuals
Interrogatories
Comparative Fault
Fraud
To prove injury the defamation must show...
3. Requires a meeting of the minds
Mail box rule
attractive nuisance
trespass
agreement
4. Discovery phase: chance for the party to learn about its opponent.
Step two in filing a civil law suit
Number of Justices in the Supreme Court?
third requirement of a contract
How much of a majority is it to override a presidents veto
5. Type of defamation tort; spoken defamation
tort
slander
larceny
assault
6. Establishes the idea precendent
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7. No unreasonable searches or seizures
agreement
Bystander's obligation means...
Concurring Opinion
fourth amendment
8. Business tort; using someones likeness or voice without their permission.
Administrative Law
The percentage vote to pass a bill
First African American Justice
Commercial Exploitation
9. A plaintiff may generally recover even if he/she is partially negligible
Style of a Case
mens rea
Comparative Fault
Equal Protection Clause
10. The rules committee where it is put on a calendar.
Bill
In the house of representatives - after a bill has left the first committee - it travels to...
Federal District Court
negligent retention
11. Trial.
mirror image rule
counter offer
quasi contract
Step four in filing a civil law suit
12. The process of one party's lawyer to question the other party or a potential witness under oath.
Depositions
crime burden of proof
Assumption of the risk
Federal District Court
13. If the proceedings of a business occur intrastate but will eventually effect proceedings interstate - this rule states that congress may interfere
fifth amendment
Substantial effect rule
In a lawsuit attorneys have a burden of proof that shows liability by
Shire Reeves
14. Bottom Line answer
Total circuits in the court of appeals
The primary drafter of the constitution
Comparative Fault
Holding
15. Type of intent to be proved; means a guilty state of mind
mens rea
Litigation
In the house of representatives - after a bill has left the first committee - it travels to...
Number of Justices in the Supreme Court?
16. Judge made law; based on precedent - which leads to stare decisis
Tortious interference with a contract
Common Law
John Locke
Assumption of the risk
17. System of checks and balances within the federal government
Appellee
Negligence
Litigation
Separation of powers
18. You have no duty to assist someone in peril unless you created the danger
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19. The party filing the appeal
when a bill is introduced to the Sentate is must have...
Appellant
Style of a Case
Intermediate scrutiny
20. Forbidding a law to be passed
Wire Fraud
forseeable harm
Veto
slander
21. A less serious crime often punishable by less than one year in prison
Malice
misdemeanor
Shire Reeves
crime burden of proof
22. Gender related; such laws must be substantially related to important government objectives. (gov't cant discriminate based on gender through the law making process)
Intermediate scrutiny
Fraud
embezzlement
After the bill is released from committees in the two houses - it goes...
23. A court will imply by conduct that there was an agreement between two parties
implied contract
Comparative Fault
letters of intent
Style of a Case
24. Thurgood Marshall
First African American Justice
precedent
letters of intent
intrusion
25. John Roberts
licensee
strict liability
Current Chief Justice
Separation of powers
26. Type of intentional tort (and crime); injuring someone by deliberate deception
Fraud
actus reus
Federal District Court
Assumption of the risk
27. Action - print and other expression. Broader than the spoken word
Medicare fraud
Appellant
What Freedom of speech includes
Veto
28. Complaint and summons are served to defendant; answer is provided within 30 days
Statute
In the house of representatives - after a bill has left the first committee - it travels to...
Step one in filing a civil law suit
counter offer
29. Nine.
revocation
agreement
Writ of Certiorari
Number of Justices in the Supreme Court?
30. 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
Significance of 'On the Laws and Customs of England'
How Federal Law has jurisdiction in a lawsuit
Pocket Veto
conversion
31. Capacity; the parties must be adults and mentally competent
fourth requirement of a contract
Procedural due process
Step three in filing a civil law suit
revocation
32. Allows the FBI to surveillance citizens with out a search warrant from a judge
negligent hiring
Incorporation clause
Mail Fraud
Patriot Act
33. Legality; the subject matter must be legal
third requirement of a contract
Mail box rule
Bill
actus reus
34. Someone on the property by right of a public place. highest duty of due care is owed to avoid negligence
invitee
Pocket Veto
Qualifications for defamation
expiration
35. The facts imply that the defendants negligence caused the act; 'the thing speaks for itself'
intrusion
Res ipsa loquitor
quasi contract
First African American Justice
36. Cruel and unusual punishment
The last step of a bill in the House of representatives is...
Federal District Court
Henry DeBracton
eighth amendment
37. A party may ask the court to order an examination to find out if physical or mental damage is relevant
Physical and Mental examination
letters of intent
Federal District Court
express contract
38. Section of the fourteenth amendment where courts must provide equal protection to all cases based on scrutiny
implied contract
Equal Protection Clause
conversion
In the house of representatives - after a bill has left the first committee - it travels to...
39. Due process or the right to a hearing
Res ipsa loquitor
Interrogatories
assault
fifth amendment
40. Agreement (offer and acceptance)
Style of a Case
first requirement of a contract
false imprisonment
The job of the Rules Committee
41. Proposed statutes - submitted to Congress or a legislature
Pleadings
Qualifications for defamation
counter offer
Bill
42. A person who is on your property with your permission; you owe them a higher duty of due care to warn of known dangers
Holding
promissory estoppel
Common Law
licensee
43. Right to an attorney when facing a prison sentence
sixth amendment
Step one in filing a civil law suit
Procedural due process
fifth amendment
44. Type of defamation tort; written defamation
intrusion
attractive nuisance
lible
The last step of a bill in the House of representatives is...
45. A law passed by a legislative body
Interrogatories
The percentage vote to pass a bill
Statute
element 5 of a negligence lawsuit
46. When the bill is debated to the floor of the house.
battery
Conference committee
The last step of a bill in the House of representatives is...
Stare Decisis
47. Faking car accidents and injury in order to gain a settlement
Mail Fraud
embezzlement
Procedural due process
Insurance Fraud
48. Type of intentional tort; an act that makes a person fear imminent battery
Step one in filing a civil law suit
assault
Stare Decisis
expiration
49. Judges who disagree with the majority holding; states their opposing opinion
Dissenting Opinion
Conference committee
Insurance Fraud
mirror image rule
50. Type of tort; taking someone elses property without consent.
conversion
breach of duty
Contributory Negligence
revocation