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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. Nonverbal communication - such as burning a flag or wearing an armband. The Supreme Court has accorded some symbolic speech protection under the first amendment.
Opening statements
Compensatory damages
Symbolic speech
dram shop acts
2. Law concerned with public wrongs against society
Remedies of Law
Bill of Rights
Criminal law
Administrative agency
3. The body of laws created by legislative statutes
Cases on point
Independent regulatory agencies
Statutory Law
Equitable maxims
4. Precedents are determined under stare decisis. Courts of law and courts or equity have been combined.
Relevant evidence
dram shop acts
Jurisdiction
importance of common law
5. An economically injurious falsehood made about another's product or property; a general term for torts that are more specifically referred to as slander of quality or slander of title.
Cross-examination
Commerce clause
Disparagement of property
Bill of Rights
6. Right to a trial by jury
Seventh Amendment
Complaint
positivist school
Eighth Amendment
7. The First Amendment guarantee that the government will not create and support an official state church
Mini-trial
Eighth Amendment
Civil Law
establishment clause
8. A question asked to determine what is true or to what extent something is true
Strict product liability
Absolute bar
Online dispute resolution
Question of fact
9. A major provider of arbitration services
Principle of rights
Symbolic speech
Probable cause
American Arbitration Association
10. An order to appear in person at a given place and time
Summons
Hearsay
Damages
Business Ethics
11. (law) behavior by the plaintiff that contributes to the harm resulting from the defendant's negligence
Rebuttal
Federal Jurisdiction
Respondent Superior
Contributory negligence
12. 1. That the defendant owed a duty of care to the plaintiff. 2. The the defendant breached that duty. 3. That the defendant's breach caused the plaintiff's injury. 4. That the defendants breach caused the plaintiff's injury and that injury was forseea
Motion
Complaint
Search warrant
Negligence
13. Federal regulatory agencies that are independent - thus not fully under the power of the president. Ex. Federal Trade Commission - Securities and Exchange Commission.
Summary jury trials
Independent regulatory agencies
Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
Analogy
14. Supreme Court followed by the U.S. Court of Appeals and The highest state courts. Then followed by federal administrative agencies. U.S. District Courts - Specialized U.S. Courts(bankruptcy courts - court of Federal claims - court of international tr
Appellant
State and Federal Court Systems
Stare Decisis and legal Reasoning
diversity of citizenship
15. The party against whom legal action is taken; the party against whom a writ of certiorari is sought.
Symbolic speech
Res ipsa loquitur
Respondent
Sixth Amendment
16. Violation of a law - duty - or other form of obligation - either by engaging in an action or failing to act
Origins Of Common Law
Legal realism
breaches
Case Precedents and the doctrine of stare decisis
17. A school of legal thought that views the law as a tool for promoting justice in society.
Closing argument
Sociological school
Question of fact
Legal realism
18. A response to a plaintiff's claim that does not deny the plaintiff's facts but attacks the plaintiff's legal right to bring an action. An example is the running of the statute of limitations.
Affirmative defense
Question of law
State level appeal eligibility
Police powers
19. A wrongful act that the actor had no right to do
Motion for a directed verdict
Corporate social responsibility
establishment clause
Malpractice
20. Automotic appeal based on procedure/law. appeal cannot be made on a error of fact. Car accident example. procedure - wrong court date. law - issue of law is wrong. U.S. Supreme Court appeal is still possible with permission(write of certerori)
Service of process
State level appeal eligibility
Third Amendment
Cost-benefit analysis
21. The principle pleading by the defendant in response to plaintiff's complaint
Probable cause
Seventh Amendment
Brief
Answer
22. A common law writ issued by a superior court to one of inferior jurisdiction demanding the record of a particular case
In rem jurisdiction
uniform laws
Writ of certiorari
Negotiation
23. Based on the idea that law is just one of many institutions in society and that it is shaped by social forces and needs
Constitutional Law
uniform laws
Exclusive Jurisdiction
Legal realism
24. The publication of false information about another's product - alleging it is not what its seller claims; also referred to as slander of quality.
Venue
Concurrent Jurisdiction
Trade libel
Courts of equity
25. The act of delivering a writ or summons upon someone
Legal and Equitable Remedies
Service of process
tilitarinism
Reporters
26. A claim filed in opposition to another claim in a legal action
Stages in an A Typical Lawsuit
due proccess clause
Punitive damages
Counterclaim
27. A reference to or a quotation from an authority
citation
Long arm statue
Jurisdiction
Fourth Amendment
28. Set of books containing published court decisions
Torts(Wrongs)
Search warrant
Reporters
Motion for a directed verdict
29. When the matter is between private parties the constitution laws do not apply. Between individuals and government organizations then constitutional laws apply.
Corporate social responsibility
When constitutional lawz apply
Stare Decisis and legal Reasoning
Negotiation
30. Protects you from unreasonable search and seizure of your home and property
Fourth Amendment
Police powers
Assumption of risk
Alleges
31. 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.
Second Amendment
Award
Causation in fact
Administrative agency
32. (law) a pleading made by a defendant in response to the plaintiff's replication
Opening statements
State Jurisdiction
Rejoinder
Probable cause
33. Right to bear arms
Second Amendment
In rem jurisdiction
Opinions
Defense
34. An argument made after the plaintiff and defendant have rested their cases. Closing arguments are made prior to the jury charges.
Closing argument
Business Ethics
Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
Bankruptcy courts
35. 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.
Filtering software
Appellant
Symbolic speech
Sixth Amendment
36. Requirement that a case can only be heard by the Supreme Court if four justices vote to hear the case
Eighth Amendment
Cross-examination
Defenses to negligence
Rule of four
37. Contracts - Sales - Negotiable instruments - creditos rights - intellectual property - e-commerce - product liability - torts - agency - business organizations - professional liability - courts and court procedures.
Areas of Law that may affect business decision making
Sixth Amendment
Police powers
due proccess clause
38. (accident - breach of contract - or other event) > Party consults with Attorney(Initial client interview - signing of retainer agreement) > Informal investigation > Plaintiffs attorney files complaint > Defendant attorney files answer to complaint or
in personam jurisdiction
Stages in an A Typical Lawsuit
Motion
Writ of certiorari
39. In a jury trial - a motion for the judge to take the decision out of the hands of the jury and to direct a verdict for the party who filed the motion on the ground that the other party has not produced sufficient evidence to support her or his claim.
Motion for a directed verdict
Ninth Amendment
Alleges
Counterclaim
40. 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
Statues of limitation
Arbitration clause
Exclusive Jurisdiction
Categorical imperative
41. 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
uniform laws
importance of common law
Slander of title
42. (law) compensation in excess of actual damages (a form of punishment awarded in cases of malicious or willful misconduct)
Punitive damages
Alternative dispute resolution
Privileges and and immunities clause
Fourth Amendment
43. Statements made by the plaintiff and the defendant in a lawsuit that detail the facts - charges - and defenses involved in the litigation. The complaint and answer are part of the pleadings.
Pleadings
Courts of equity
Respondent Superior
Legal and Equitable Remedies
44. A brief outline of what the defendant and the plaintiff will try to prove.
Opening statements
Brief
Legal realism
Symbolic speech
45. (law) the initial questioning of a witness by the party that called the witness
Direct examination
Rules of evidence
Writ of certiorari
Mini-trial
46. Logical formula consisting of a major premise - a minor premise and a conclusion; deceptive or specious argument
Contributory negligence
ordinaces
Rebuttal
Syllogism
47. The body of rules and regulations and orders and decisions created by administrative agencies of government
Motion for judgement on the pleadings
Administrative law
Tenth Amendment
Alternative dispute resolution
48. On the premises fr the potential financial benefit of the occupier
Common law
Bill of Rights
importance of common law
Business invitees
49. 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
Burden of proof
Justicable controversy
Litigation
Opening statements
50. 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
Answer
Legal reasoning
Police powers
American Arbitration Association