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Paralegal 101
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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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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. A defendant's personal promise to appear in court.
Legal technician
Verification
Pretrial motion
Personal recognizance bond
2. A court order that a person who is not a party to the litigation appear at a trial or deposition and bring requested documents.
Unofficial reporter
Pocket part
Plaintiff
Subpoena duces tecum
3. A court order requiring a party to perform a specific act or to cease doing a specific act.
Writ of habeas corpus
Recidivist
Notice pleading
Injunction
4. A set of standardized jury instructions.
Stop and frisk
Pattern jury instructions
Appellate courts
Invasion of Privacy
5. Questions relating to the interpretation or application of the law.
Holding
Hearsay
Charging the jury
Questions of law
6. The tenant's right to be free from interference from the landlord with respect to how the property is used.
Motion in limine
Quiet enjoyment
Joint tenancy
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7. Summary of one legal point in a court opinion; written by the editors at West.
Evidence
Professional Corporation (PC)
Property law
Headnote
8. The first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution.
Full-text searches
Holding
Double jeopardy
Bill of Rights
9. The process of signaling that you are really listening - accomplished by using verbal and nonverbal clues - paraphrasing - and reflecting the client's feelings.
Statute of limitations
Codification of the common law
Active Listening
Harmless error
10. A defendant's plea meaning that the defendant neither admits nor denies the charges.
Analogous cases
Nolo contendere
Internet
Agent
11. Not factually true - but accepted by the courts as being legally true.
Judgment notwithstanding the verdict (judgment N.O.V.)
Challenge for cause
Nominal damages
Constructive
12. A computerized database that contains the full text of documents - such as court opinions or depositions.
Transition
Full-text database
Statute
Harmless error
13. Law that regulates how the legal system operates.
Statutory element
Statute of limitations
Procedural law
Invasion of Privacy
14. A test that provides that the defendant is not guity due to insanity if - at the time of the killing the defendant could not control his or her actions.
Warrant
Original jurisdiction
Dictum
Irresistible impulse test
15. A reason for invalidating a statute where a reasonable person could not determine a statute's meaning.
Void for vagueness
Writ of certiorari
Consideration
Contributory negligence
16. Rules and regulations created by administrative agencies.
Disbarment
Pleadings
Treatment
Administrative law
17. An examination of a prospective juror to see if he or she is fit to serve as a juror on a specific case.
Circumstantial evidence
Voir dire
Judgment notwithstanding the verdict (judgment N.O.V.)
Enabling act
18. Bad intent.
Separation of powers
Mens rea
Major premise
Double jeopardy
19. A method for measuring the relative negligence of the plaintiff and the defendant - with a commensurate sharing of the compensation for the injuries.
Legal Reasoning
Intentional tort
Comparative negligence
M'Naghten test
20. A person appointed by the court to manage the affairs or property of a person who is incompetent due to age or some other reason.
Enabling act
Guardian
Quiet enjoyment
Partnership
21. Body of law that has evolved from judicial decisions in cases that do not involve constitutional - statutory - or administrative regulation interpretation.
Certified
Primary authority
Judgment
Common law
22. A national voluntary organization of lawyers.
Laws
American Bar Association (ABA) www.abanet.org
Judicial notice
Personal jurisdiction
23. Monetary compensation - including compensatory - punitive - and nominal damages.
Exigent circumstances
Arraignment
Damages
Intentional tort
24. Money is awarded to a plaintiff in payment for his or her actual losses.
Judicial restraint
Judgment notwithstanding the verdict (judgment N.O.V.)
Compensatory damages
Notice pleading
25. The power of the federal courts to hear matters of state law if the opposing parties are from different states and the amounts in controversy exceeds $75 -000.00
Contingency Fee
Diversity jurisdiction
Civil law
Actus rea
26. The power of a court to hear a case.
Retreat exception
Corroborative evidence
Lay a foundation
Jurisdiction
27. Law dealing with ownership.
Double jeopardy
Property law
Jurisdiction
Recidivist
28. A national association of paralegal managers.
Preponderance of the evidence
Punitive damages
International Paralegal Management Association (IPMA) www.paralegal management.org
Alternative dispute resolution (ADR)
29. A statutory citation is a formalized method for referring to a statute's chapter (or title) and section numbers.
Exigent circumstances
Interrogatories
Judicial restraint
Citation
30. A computerized database that contains key information about the content of documents - such as medical records.
Judicial restraint
Leading question
Ethical wall or screen or cone of silence
Structured database
31. Information about what happened procedurally to the litigation after the case cited. Include this information in a citation. There is no entry for the topic Husband and Wife.
Overbreadth
Subsequent case history
American Association for Paralegal Education (AAfPE) www.aafpe.org
Issue
32. A requirement that a party fulfill his or her contractual obligations.
Cross-claim
Strict construction
Harmless error
Specific performance
33. Computer codes that - when clicked on with a mouse - connect the user to other web pages with related information
Hypertext links
Writ of certiorari
Issue of first impression
Dictum
34. A provision that purports to waive liability.
Caption
Exculpatory clause
Cross-examination
Successive conflict of interest
35. A term used to describe a case that is similar to another case.
Conflict of interest
Exculpatory clause
On point
Pinpoint cite
36. A group of people - usually 23 - whose function is to determine if probable cause exists to believe that a crime has been committed and that the defendant committed it.
Annotated statutes
Dissenting opinion
Grand jury
Reversible error
37. A right to use property owned by another for a limited purpose.
Statutes at large or session laws
Reverse
Appellee or respondent
Easement
38. Generally someone operating within the law - representing persons before administrtive agencies that permit this practice.
Lay advocate
Arrest
Mens rea
Retainer agreement
39. A decision is reversed when an appellate court overturns or negates the decision of a lower court.
Negligence per se
Indictment
Reverse
Caption
40. The requirement in a legal malpractice case that the plaintiff-client prove that but for the attorney's negligence - the client would have won.
Caption
Proving a case within a case
Principle
Easement
41. A document that lists statements regarding specific items for the other party to admit or deny.
Strict liability
Request for admissions
Stop and frisk
Overbreadth
42. The person who is being asked questions at a deposition.
U.S. Court of Appeals
Retreat exception
Deponent
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43. The new legal principle established by a court opinion.
Holding
Minor premise
Retreat exception
Certificated
44. Information about what happened procedurally to the litigation after the case cited. Include this information in a citation.
Procedural facts
Trial courts
Subsequent case history
Holding
45. A request that the court order that certain information not be mentioned in the presence of the jury.
Motion in limine
Concurrent jurisdiction
Substantive law
Contributory negligence
46. Consists of records - contracts - leases - wills - and other written instruments.
Reverse
Materiality
Documentary evidence
Syllabus
47. An opinion that disagrees with the majority's decision and its reasoning.
Loislaw
Expert witness
Dissenting opinion
Stop and frisk
48. Land and objects permanently attached to land.
Practice of law
Agent
Real property
Execute
49. Law that deals with harm to a person or a person's property.
Tort law
Clearly erroneous
Concurrent conflict of interest
Limited liability partnership (LLP)
50. A request that the court order a rehearing of a lawsuit because irregularities - such as errors of the court or jury misconduct - make it probable that an impartial trial do not occur.
Motion for a new trial
Evidence
Closed Questions
Mens rea