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Business Law Vocab - 2
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Injuries caused by neglect and oversight rather than deliberate conduct.
fourth amendment
Negligence and strict liability
Procedural due process
Bystander's obligation means...
2. No state can deny citizens due process. (14th amendment) this incorporates states to be ruled under the constitution
What Freedom of speech includes
The primary drafter of the constitution
Physical and Mental examination
Incorporation clause
3. Judges are obligated to follow precedent
Intermediate scrutiny
Request of production of documents and things
Stare Decisis
Medicare fraud
4. Bottom Line answer
Arbitration
The percentage vote to pass a bill
fifth amendment
Holding
5. Type of defamation tort; written defamation
misdemeanor
lible
first amendment
RICO
6. Legality; the subject matter must be legal
fifth amendment
Style of a Case
third requirement of a contract
What section of the Constitution grants congress it's powers?
7. When the bill is debated to the floor of the house.
Legal Issue Presented
Appellee
The last step of a bill in the House of representatives is...
first amendment
8. Forbidding a law to be passed
when a bill is introduced to the Sentate is must have...
Veto
Procedural due process
misdemeanor
9. Type of business crime; the fraudulent conversion of property already in the defendants posession.
lible
Strict scrutiny
embezzlement
sixth amendment
10. Type of intent to be proved; means the guilty act
coercion
strict liability
actus reus
French social commentator and political thinker who created the Separation of Powers theory
11. Sandra Day Oconnor
you cannot revoke an offer...
assault
conversion
First Woman Justice
12. Business tort; defendant improperly breached contract and causes injury to plaintiff
Where the bill goes after conference committee
Veto
element 4 of a negligence lawsuit
Tortious interference with a contract
13. 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.
Dicta
eighth amendment
Malice
quasi contract
14. A federal statute that applies to the sale of goods (NOT real estate or services)
uniform commercial code
Holding
For a bill to pass...
third requirement of a contract
15. To the conference committee
Comparative Fault
Strict scrutiny
Takings clause
After the bill is released from committees in the two houses - it goes...
16. To a committee to be studied; and then debated and voted upon; this is where new amendments can be added.
After a bill enters the house of rep or senate - it goes where...
fifth amendment
To prove injury the defamation must show...
Physical and Mental examination
17. Collected taxes and helped keep the peace in tenth century England. Equivalent to a modern day Sheriff.
Bystander's obligation means...
Negligence and strict liability
Shire Reeves
larceny
18. Establishes the idea precendent
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19. Majority
Res ipsa loquitor
Mail box rule
The percentage vote to pass a bill
intrusion
20. An act of a senate member to delay the close of debate or force a decision to be made.
crime burden of proof
strict liability
Filibuster
express contract
21. A company becomes liable if they do not perform a background check
negligent hiring
assault
Shire Reeves
fifth amendment
22. Trial.
What is not protected under the first amendment
Step four in filing a civil law suit
Separation of powers
Collective Responsibility
23. Guilty beyond a reasonable doubt
crime burden of proof
actus reus
Request of production of documents and things
negligent retention
24. During the option period of a contract
Bill
Filibuster
you cannot revoke an offer...
fourth requirement of a contract
25. 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
Dicta
How Federal Law has jurisdiction in a lawsuit
Tortious interference with a contract
For a bill to pass...
26. 1250
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27. There was a breach of due care
For a bill to pass...
element 2 of a negligence lawsuit
Physical and Mental examination
licensee
28. Termination when an offer specifies a time limit for acceptance and the period is binding.
Mail Fraud
Tortious interference with a contract
expiration
first requirement of a contract
29. The documents that begin a lawsuit: consists of the complaint - answer and sometimes a reply
Year when 'On the Laws and Customs of England' was written
Substantial effect rule
Federal District Court
Pleadings
30. A tithing of 10 men put together to hold each other accountable. Anglo-saxon method of keeping the peace.
tort
Arson
Collective Responsibility
Shire Reeves
31. 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.
Henry DeBracton
element 2 of a negligence lawsuit
Conference committee
Equal Protection Clause
32. Nine.
Stare Decisis
Patriot Act
Number of Justices in the Supreme Court?
Common Law
33. Wrote 'On the Laws and Customs of England'
Voir Dire
Henry DeBracton
Fraud
element 5 of a negligence lawsuit
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
Filibuster
Rationale
Mediation
RICO
35. The rules committee where it is put on a calendar.
In the house of representatives - after a bill has left the first committee - it travels to...
Two types of dispute resolution
Filibuster
assault
36. Freedom of speech.
In the house of representatives - after a bill has left the first committee - it travels to...
Statute
first amendment
Concurring Opinion
37. Items such as trampolines and swimming pools; defendant is liable if there is no protection
attractive nuisance
entrapment
Fraud
Legal Issue Presented
38. Unintentional tort - breach of a duty of care
Henry DeBracton
Negligence
sixth amendment
Common Law
39. Agreement (offer and acceptance)
second requirement of a contract
Physical and Mental examination
Style of a Case
first requirement of a contract
40. The opinion of Judges who agree with the holding - but for different reasons.
Physical and Mental examination
element 2 of a negligence lawsuit
Rationale
Concurring Opinion
41. The floor/leadership - where it is debated upon with no time limit.
Comparative Fault
When a bill is introduced to the house of representatives it must have a...
In the senate - after the bill leave committee it travels to...
Filibuster
42. Preponderance of the evidence
tort
In a lawsuit attorneys have a burden of proof that shows liability by
To prove injury the defamation must show...
operation of law
43. FCC (Federal Communications Commission)
Step one in filing a civil law suit
Who regulates commercial speech
Separation of powers
conversion(2)
44. The party filing the appeal
Bystander's obligation means...
After a bill enters the house of rep or senate - it goes where...
Concurring Opinion
Appellant
45. Due process or the right to a hearing
negligent retention
conversion
Conference committee
fifth amendment
46. 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...
Separation of powers
sixth amendment
actus reus
47. Judge made law
element 2 of a negligence lawsuit
uniform commercial code
Commercial Exploitation
Common Law
48. The facts imply that the defendants negligence caused the act; 'the thing speaks for itself'
Two types of dispute resolution
The primary drafter of the constitution
tort
Res ipsa loquitor
49. Law made by federal agencies; rules and regulations
Veto
Administrative Law
Assumption of the risk
Writ of Certiorari
50. Discovery phase: chance for the party to learn about its opponent.
promissory estoppel
What is not protected under the first amendment
forseeable harm
Step two in filing a civil law suit