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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. Evidence that does not add any new information but that confirms facts that already have been established.






2. An online legal database containing court decisions and statutes from the entire country - as well as secondary authority; a competitor to Westlaw.






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






4. A person who initiates a lawsuit.






5. Specific questions that usually demand very short or yes-no answers.






6. In deductive reasoning - the statement of a broad proposition that forms the starting point; in law - the statement of a legal rule that you can find in a statute or court opinion.






7. Governmental publication of court opinions.






8. Intangible assets - such as trade secrets - copyrights - patents - and trade or service marks.






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






10. Federal and state rules that regulate how criminal proceedings are conducted.






11. An actual incident or condition; not a legal consequence.






12. Law that deals with harm to society as a whole.






13. A summary of one legal point in a court opinion; written by the editors at West.






14. Law that deals with harm to an individual.






15. A trial ended by the judge because of a major problem - such as a prejudicial statement by one of the attorneys.






16. A form in which statutes are published; they are printed individually at the time they are first enacted.






17. A tangible object or a right or ownership interest.






18. An agreement supported by consideration.






19. Questions relating to the interpretation or application of the law.






20. A calendering system that records key dates and important deadlines.






21. A statute establishing and setting out the powers of an administrative agency.






22. The power of a court to hear a case.






23. A system of government in which the authority to govern is split between a single - nationwide central government and several regional governments that control specific geographical areas.






24. Also known as real estate; land and items growing on or permanently attached to that land.






25. When a judge formally recognizes something as being a fact without requiring the attorneys prove it through the introduction of other evidence.






26. An ADR mechanism whereby a neutral third party assists the parties in reaching a mutually agreeable - voluntary compromise.






27. Information about what happened procedurally to the litigation after the case cited. Include this information in a citation.






28. A test that provides that the defendant is not guilty due to insanity if - at the time of the killing - the defendant suffered from a defect or disease of the mind and could not understand whether the act was right or wrong.

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29. The theory holding manufacturers and sellers liable for defective products when the defects make the products unreasonably dangerous.






30. The justified use of force to protect oneself or others.






31. A compilation of federal or state statutes in which the statutes are organized by subject matter rather than by year of enactment.






32. When only one court has the power to hear a case.






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






34. A compilation of federal administrative regulations arranged by agency.






35. '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.






36. The authority of a court to hear a case when it is initiated - as opposed to appellate jurisdiction.






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






38. Rules of conduct promulgated and enforced by the government.






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






40. A canon of construction meaning 'of the same class.:






41. Monetary compensation - including compensatory - punitive - and nominal damages.






42. In a complaint - one cause of action.






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






44. A transfer of real property rights that occurs after someone other than the owner has had actual - open - adverse - and exclusive use of the property for a statutorily determined number of years.






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






46. Bad act.






47. An issue that the court has never faced before.






48. A process whereby the prosecutor and the defendant's attorney agree for the defendant to plead guilty in exchange for the prosecutor's promise to charge him or her with a lesser offense - drop some additional charges - or request a lesser sentence.






49. An opinion that disagrees with the majority's decision and its reasoning.






50. The pleading that begins a lawsuit.