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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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1. 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.
Search warrant
breaches
Long arm statue
Relevant evidence
2. Ethical or unethical behaviors by employees in the context of their jobs
Business Ethics
Checks and balances
Stare Decisis and legal Reasoning
Binding authority
3. A motion made by a party - during trial - claiming the opposing party has insufficient evidence to reasonably support its case
Binding authority
Motion for judgement as a matter of law
Award
Strict liability
4. The moral principle that behavior should be determined by duty - A concept developed by the philosopher Immanuel Kant as an ethical guideline for behavior. In deciding whether an action is right or wrong a person should evaluate the action in terms o
Categorical imperative
Motion for a new trial
Alternative dispute resolution
Equitable maxims
5. Someone who petitions a court for redress of a grievance or recovery of a right
Respondent
Petitioner
Rules of evidence
Online dispute resolution
6. The reasoning process used by judges in deciding what law applies to a given dispute and then applying that law to the specific facts or circumstances of the case
abnormally dangerous
Standing to sue
positivist school
Legal reasoning
7. Any source of law that a court must follow when deciding a case. This includes constitutions - statues - and regulations - that govern the issue being decided - as well as previous court decisions in the same jurisdiction.
Binding authority
Complaint
Rebuttal
Hearsay
8. The government may not house soldiers in private homes without consent of the owner
Third Amendment
Filtering software
Cases on point
Compensatory damages
9. Logical formula consisting of a major premise - a minor premise and a conclusion; deceptive or specious argument
Strict liability
Case law
Syllogism
Police powers
10. 1. Resident 2. (while within boundaries of state) 3. Long arm statue.
Areas of Law that may affect business decision making
Motion for judgement on the pleadings
State Jurisdiction
Historical school
11. The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution - nor prohibited by it to the states - are reserved to the states respectively - or to the people.
Courts of law
Venue
Tenth Amendment
Legal and Equitable Remedies
12. 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.
Filtering software
Motion for a new trial
Symbolic speech
Stare Decisis and legal Reasoning
13. To confirm priestly authority upon
When constitutional lawz apply
ordinaces
dram shop acts
Rebuttal
14. Is strict liability hold a claim if the product or service in question is...
Cyber torts
abnormally dangerous
Burden of proof
Remedies
15. Contains the courts reasons for its decision - the rules of law that apply - and the judgement
Opinions
Hearsay
uniform laws
Respondent
16. A court will award money or other relief to a party injured by a breach of contract
Trespass to land
Early neutral case evaluation
Syllogism
Remedies
17. A wrongful act that the actor had no right to do
Chancellor
Reporters
Standing to sue
Malpractice
18. On the premises fr the potential financial benefit of the occupier
Historical school
State and Federal Court Systems
Business invitees
Exclusive Jurisdiction
19. The body of conventional - or written - law of a particular society at a particular point in time.
positive law
Natural law
Arbitration
Corporate social responsibility
20. The branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do
Public Policy
jurisprudence
Symbolic speech
Free exercise clause
21. (law) behavior by the plaintiff that contributes to the harm resulting from the defendant's negligence
State Jurisdiction
Good samaritan statues
In rem jurisdiction
Contributory negligence
22. 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.
Police powers
Symbolic speech
Default judgement
State level appeal eligibility
23. Right to bear arms
Second Amendment
Contributory negligence
Cost-benefit analysis
Concurrent Jurisdiction
24. A condensed written summary or abstract
Punitive damages
Motion for a directed verdict
Brief
Res ipsa loquitur
25. A computer program that is designed to block access to certain Web sites based on their content. The software blocks the retrieval of a site whose URL or key words are on a list within the program.
Question of fact
Third Amendment
Venue
Filtering software
26. (law) compensation in excess of actual damages (a form of punishment awarded in cases of malicious or willful misconduct)
Mini-trial
Punitive damages
Seventh Amendment
Criminal law
27. The publication of false information about another's product - alleging that it is not what its seller claims.
Administrative agency
Remedies
Slander of quality
Burden of proof
28. Federal regulatory agencies that are independent - thus not fully under the power of the president. Ex. Federal Trade Commission - Securities and Exchange Commission.
Eighth Amendment
Summons
Disparagement of property
Independent regulatory agencies
29. An act or omission without which an event would not have occurred.
Causation in fact
Courts of law
Opening statements
Answer
30. Authority shared by both federal and state courts
Cost-benefit analysis
Concurrent Jurisdiction
Federal question
Administrative law
31. The power to speak the law.
Relevant evidence
Jurisdiction
Mini-trial
Counterclaim
32. Contracts - Sales - Negotiable instruments - creditos rights - intellectual property - e-commerce - product liability - torts - agency - business organizations - professional liability - courts and court procedures.
Negligence
Ninth Amendment
Areas of Law that may affect business decision making
Alleges
33. Assumption of risk - Superseding cause - and contributory and comparative negligence.
Answer
Defenses to negligence
Police powers
Areas of Law that may affect business decision making
34. The preponderance of evidence which means more likely then not.
Motion for a new trial
Burden of proof
Administrative law
Assumption of risk
35. The act of delivering a writ or summons upon someone
laches
Good samaritan statues
Sociological school
Service of process
36. Wrongs
Slander of title
Torts(Wrongs)
Principle of rights
Tenth Amendment
37. A form of alternative dispute resolution in which a neutral third party evaluates the strengths and weakness of the disputing parties' positions; the evaluator's opinion forms the basis for negotiating a settlement.
Cyberlaw
Categorical imperative
Trade libel
Early neutral case evaluation
38. 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.
Administrative agency
uniform laws
Strict product liability
Sixth Amendment
39. Drawing a comparison in order to show a similarity in some respect
Independent regulatory agencies
Motion
Analogy
Civil Law
40. (civil law) a law established by following earlier judicial decisions
Case law
Appellant
Seventh Amendment
Online dispute resolution
41. A reference to or a quotation from an authority
Seventh Amendment
Counterclaim
citation
Equitable maxims
42. In litigation - the amount of monetary compensation awarded to a plaintiff in a civil lawsuit as damages. In the context of alternative dispute resolution - the decision rendered by an arbitrator.
Award
Damages
Federal question
uniform laws
43. The obligation of organization management to make decisions and take actions that will enhance the welfare and interests of society as well as the organization
Corporate social responsibility
Seventh Amendment
Cases on point
Commerce clause
44. A reasoning process in which an individual links his or her moral convictions or ethical standards to the particular situation at hand.
Proximate cause
Standing to sue
Motion for judgement as a matter of law
Ethical reasoning
45. A question that had to do with the US Constitution - acts of Congress - or treaties; it provides a basis for federal jurisdiction
Second Amendment
Affirmative defense
Federal question
Service of process
46. Set of books containing published court decisions
Arbitration
Appellant
Statutory Law
Reporters
47. Nonverbal communication - such as burning a flag or wearing an armband. The Supreme Court has accorded some symbolic speech protection under the first amendment.
Venue
fradulent Misrepresentation
Assumption of risk
Symbolic speech
48. 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
Brief
Motion for judgement on the pleadings
Jurisdiction
Answer
49. Part of the 14th Amendment which guarentees that no state deny basic rights to its people
Writ of certiorari
Third Amendment
dram shop acts
due proccess clause
50. A judgment entered in favor of the plaintiff when the defendant defaults (fails to appear in court)
Precedent
Default judgement
Motion for a new trial
ordinaces