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Business Law Test
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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. No State can draw unreasonable distinctions between its own residents and those persons who happen to live in other States
Third Amendment
fradulent Misrepresentation
Causation in fact
Privileges and and immunities clause
2. The idea that the goal of society should be the greatest happiness for the greatest number of its citizens
Analogy
Commerce clause
tilitarinism
Answer
3. A sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury
Compensatory damages
Stare Decisis and legal Reasoning
Petitioner
Damages
4. A controversey that is not hypotheical or academic but real and substansial; a requirement the must be satisfied before a court will hear a case
Appellant
Justicable controversy
Question of law
Defense
5. The courts that awarded compensation back in English Realm
Appellee
Alternative dispute resolution
Courts of law
Respondent Superior
6. Everyone in the commercial chain will be liable for the defect. (manafacturer - distrubutor - retailer) *end user is not in the commercial chain.
Exclusive Jurisdiction
Rule of four
Strict product liability
Full faith and credit clause
7. An argument made after the plaintiff and defendant have rested their cases. Closing arguments are made prior to the jury charges.
Malpractice
Litigation
Closing argument
Business invitees
8. A motion asserting that the trial was so fundamentally flawed (because of error - newly discovered evidence - prejudice - or another reason) that a new trial is necessary to prevent a miscarriage of justice.
Cost-benefit analysis
fradulent Misrepresentation
Motion for a new trial
Complaint
9. The party who appeals a decision of a lower court
Motion for a new trial
Ethical reasoning
Causation in fact
Appellant
10. An amendment to the Constitution of the United States guaranteeing the right of free expression
Legal and Equitable Remedies
First Amendment
Independent regulatory agencies
State Jurisdiction
11. An act or omission without which an event would not have occurred.
Natural law
Causation in fact
Negligence
Punitive damages
12. The act of delivering a writ or summons upon someone
Ninth Amendment
Reporters
American Arbitration Association
Service of process
13. Drawing a comparison in order to show a similarity in some respect
diversity of citizenship
Filtering software
Cross-examination
Analogy
14. Previously decided cases that are as similar as possible to the one under consideration
Cases on point
Defenses to negligence
Good samaritan statues
Jurisdiction
15. The First Amendment guarantee that citizens may freely engage in the religious activities of their choice
Free exercise clause
State and Federal Court Systems
Fourth Amendment
Police powers
16. Protects you from unreasonable search and seizure of your home and property
Award
Second Amendment
Fourth Amendment
Justicable controversy
17. A federal - state - or local government unit established to perform a specific function. Administrative agencies are created and authorized by legislative bodies to administer and enforce specific laws.
Concurrent Jurisdiction
Mini-trial
Malpractice
Administrative agency
18. Evidence tending to make a fact at issue in the case more or less probable than it would be without the evidence. Only relevant evidence is admissible in court.
Analogy
laches
Relevant evidence
Alternative dispute resolution
19. In a lawsuit - an issue involving the application or interpretation of a law. Only a judge - not a jury - can rule on questions of law.
Binding authority
Absolute bar
State Jurisdiction
Question of law
20. The First Amendment guarantee that the government will not create and support an official state church
establishment clause
Absolute bar
Ninth Amendment
Federal question
21. The location where something takes place - esp. a trial
due proccess clause
Disparagement of property
Jurisdiction
Venue
22. The body of rules and regulations and orders and decisions created by administrative agencies of government
Constitutional Law
Venue
positive law
Administrative law
23. Adj. from the Latin 'against or about a thing -' referring to a lawsuit or other legal action directed toward property - rather than toward a particular person. Thus - if title to property is the issue - the action is 'in rem.' The term is important
In rem jurisdiction
Venue
law
Direct examination
24. A final judgment for one side in a lawsuit without trial when a judge finds based on pleadings - affidavits - and depositions that there is no genuine factual issue in the lawsuit
Rules of evidence
Mini-trial
Motion for judgement on the pleadings
Answer
25. A warrant authorizing law enforcement officials to search for objects or people involved in the commission of a crime and to produce them in court
Police powers
Punitive damages
Search warrant
Fifth Amendment
26. Federal regulatory agencies that are independent - thus not fully under the power of the president. Ex. Federal Trade Commission - Securities and Exchange Commission.
in personam jurisdiction
Venue
Independent regulatory agencies
Seventh Amendment
27. Inherent powers of state governments to pass laws to protect the public health - safety - and welfare; the national government has no directly granted police powers but accomplishes the same goals through other delegated powers.
Strict liability
Case law
Default judgement
Police powers
28. A wrongful act that the actor had no right to do
Summary jury trials
Slander of quality
Malpractice
Common law
29. Wrongs
Legal and Equitable Remedies
Torts(Wrongs)
Appellant
American Arbitration Association
30. Doctrine under which a person cannot recover for injuries received from a dangerous activity to which she voluntarily exposed herself
Motion for judgement on the pleadings
ordinaces
Cost-benefit analysis
Assumption of risk
31. State statute that permits a state to obtain personal jurisdiction over nonresident defendants
Filtering software
Long arm statue
Pleadings
Trespass to land
32. Need a set of laws so that commerce is possible; can't have different laws in every state for business. Uniform Commercial Code. Uniform Partnernship Act. Most states adopt them but not in the exact same form
uniform laws
Online dispute resolution
Seventh Amendment
Arbitration clause
33. An ethical principle that holds that you should never take any action that infringes on others; agreed-upon rights
Principle of rights
Alleges
Motion
Direct examination
34. The preponderance of evidence which means more likely then not.
Motion
Strict product liability
Malpractice
Burden of proof
35. Discussion with a view to reaching agreement; talking about a conflict where both parties give and take to reach a resolution - without attorneys.
Negotiation
Burden of proof
Administrative law
Cases on point
36. The power to speak the law.
Jurisdiction
ordinaces
Pleadings
Criminal law
37. (law) compensation in excess of actual damages (a form of punishment awarded in cases of malicious or willful misconduct)
Courts of equity
Punitive damages
Question of fact
Third Amendment
38. (law) the initial questioning of a witness by the party that called the witness
Pleadings
Direct examination
Respondent Superior
Question of fact
39. A question that had to do with the US Constitution - acts of Congress - or treaties; it provides a basis for federal jurisdiction
Federal question
Business invitees
Summons
Origins Of Common Law
40. (law) behavior by the plaintiff that contributes to the harm resulting from the defendant's negligence
Compensatory damages
Contributory negligence
Criminal law
Stages in an A Typical Lawsuit
41. The unlawful taking or harming of another's personal property; interference with another's right to the exclusive possession of his or her personal property.
Trespass to personal property
Trade libel
Independent regulatory agencies
Opinions
42. (civil law) the first pleading of the plaintiff setting out the facts on which the claim for relief is based
Business Ethics
Complaint
Closing argument
Petitioner
43. Based on the idea that law is just one of many institutions in society and that it is shaped by social forces and needs
Appellee
Courts of equity
Fifth Amendment
Legal realism
44. Violation of a law - duty - or other form of obligation - either by engaging in an action or failing to act
Seventh Amendment
breaches
Concurrent Jurisdiction
Counterclaim
45. A common law writ issued by a superior court to one of inferior jurisdiction demanding the record of a particular case
Origins Of Common Law
Writ of execution
Writ of certiorari
Symbolic speech
46. On the premises fr the potential financial benefit of the occupier
Search warrant
Business invitees
Third Amendment
voir dire
47. Liability without fault. (Strict product liability)
Strict liability
Motion
Statues of limitation
Jurisdiction
48. The body of laws created by legislative statutes
Service of process
Early neutral case evaluation
Statutory Law
Arbitrability
49. Authority shared by both federal and state courts
Exclusive Jurisdiction
American Arbitration Association
Concurrent Jurisdiction
Early neutral case evaluation
50. Questioning of a witness during a trial or during the taking of a deposition - by the party opposed to the one who produced the witness.
Analogy
Federal Jurisdiction
Strict product liability
Cross-examination