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Paralegal 101

Subject : law
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. A temporary transfer of personal property to someone other than the owner for a specified purpose.






2. Not susceptible to a precise definition; a belief based on specific facts that a crime has been or is about to be committed; more than a reasonable suspicion.






3. Occurs when the police restrain a person's freedom and charge the person with a crime.






4. A term used to describe two cases that are almost identical - with similar facts and legal issues.






5. A court's prior permission for the police to search and seize.






6. An intentional tort that covers a variety of situations - including disclosure - intrusion - appropriation - and false light.






7. Ownership by two or more persons who have equal rights in the use of the property. When a joint tenant dies - that person's share passes to the other joint tenant(s).






8. A defense requiring proof that the defendant would not have committed the crime but for police trickery.






9. Violation of a statute as proof of negligence






10. A court order requiring a person to appear to testify at a trial or deposition.






11. Evidence that suggests the defendant's guilt.






12. The papers that begin a lawsuit-generally - the complaint and the answer.






13. Determined by whether the evidence leads one to logically conclude that an asserted fact is either more or less probable.






14. How subsequent cases have affected the case you are Shepardizing. It is sometimes indicated by a one-letter abbreviation before the Shepard's citation.






15. Cases that involve similar facts and rules of law.






16. To perform.






17. An authoritative secondary source - written by a group of legal scholars - summarizing the existing common law - as well as suggesting what the law should be.






18. Body of law that has evolved from judicial decisions in cases that do not involve constitutional - statutory - or administrative regulation interpretation.






19. Ownership by two or more people. Ownership shares do not have to be equal - but each has an undivided interest in the property. When a tenant in common dies - that person's share passes either by will or by intestate statute.






20. A nonlawyer who provides legal services directly to the public without being under the supervision of an attorney. Absent a statute allowing this activity - it constitutes the unauthorized practice of law.






21. A pamphlet inserted into the back of a book containing information new since the volume was published.






22. All property that is not real property.






23. In a case brief - the general legal principle in existence before the case began.






24. A claim that based on the law and the facts is sufficient to support a lawsuit. If the plaintiff does not state a valid cause of action in the complaint - the court will dismiss it.






25. A set charge for a specific service - such as drafting a simple will.






26. Generally accepted legal principles.






27. Being informed of some act done or about to be done.






28. A decision is reversed when an appellate court overturns or negates the decision of a lower court.






29. Broad questions that put few limits on the freedom of the respondent.






30. A motion brought before the beginning of a trial either to eliminate the necessity for a trial or to limit the information that can be heard at the trial.






31. The process of organizing statutes by subject matter.






32. An intentional act that creates a reasonable apprehension of an immediate harmful or offensive physical contact.






33. Information about the law - such as that contained in encyclopedias and law review articles.






34. The power of a court to force a person to appear before it.






35. Defendant's reply to the complaint. It may contain statements of denial - admission - or lack of knowledge and affirmative defenses.






36. A computer program that allows the user to retrieve web documents that match the key words entered by the searcher.






37. Money is awarded to a plaintiff in payment for his or her actual losses.






38. A statement of the court's decision that contains many of the case's specific facts - thereby limiting its future applicability to a narrow range of cases.






39. A requirement that a party fulfill his or her contractual obligations.






40. A statute enacted to correct a defect in prior law or to provide a remedy where none existed.






41. A repeat offender; one who continues to commit more crimes.






42. A computer search that identifies every place in which the search term appears in the actual text of the document being searched.






43. When the product was not being used for its intended purpose or was being used in a dangerous manner; it is a defense to a products liability claim so long as the misuse was not foreseeable.






44. 'The thing speaks for itself'; the doctrine that suggest negligence can be presumed if an event happens that would not ordinarily happen unless someone was negligent.






45. Cases that involve different facts and/or rules of law.






46. A claim by a defendant against someone in addition to the persons the plaintiff has already sued.






47. A form of logical reasoning based on a major premise - a minor premise - and a conclusion.






48. The rule that in order to claim self-defense there must have been no possibility of retreat.






49. A reason for invalidating a statute where it covers both protected and criminal activity.






50. Questions that suggest the answer.