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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. Assumption of risk - Superseding cause - and contributory and comparative negligence.
Sociological school
importance of common law
Defenses to negligence
positivist school
2. An example that is used to justify similar occurrences at a later time
Precedent
Motion for judgement on the pleadings
Trade libel
Respondent
3. An order to appear in person at a given place and time
Justicable controversy
Summons
Damages
Origins Of Common Law
4. 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.
Federal Jurisdiction
Early neutral case evaluation
importance of common law
In rem jurisdiction
5. On the premises fr the potential financial benefit of the occupier
Ninth Amendment
State level appeal eligibility
positive law
Business invitees
6. To confirm priestly authority upon
ordinaces
Hearsay
Business Ethics
Principle of rights
7. A nonbinding process in which attorneys for both sides present synopses of their cases to a jury - which renders an advisory opinion on the basis of these presentations
Tenth Amendment
Summary jury trials
Ethical reasoning
Probable cause
8. A clause in a contract providing for arbitration of disputes arising under the contract
Trespass to personal property
Closing argument
Arbitration clause
Historical school
9. 1. employee activity within scope of employment 2. employee is negligent
Case law
Case Precedents and the doctrine of stare decisis
Respondent Superior
Filtering software
10. The clause in the Constitution (Article I - Section 8 - Clause 1) that gives Congress the power to regulate all business activities that cross state lines or affect more than one state or other nations.
Commerce clause
Full faith and credit clause
Legal and Equitable Remedies
Business Ethics
11. Is strict liability hold a claim if the product or service in question is...
Jurisdiction
abnormally dangerous
Bill of Rights
Opinions
12. The First Amendment guarantee that citizens may freely engage in the religious activities of their choice
Free exercise clause
Disparagement of property
Motion for a directed verdict
Small Claims courts
13. The branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do
positive law
jurisprudence
Causation in fact
Checks and balances
14. Nonverbal communication - such as burning a flag or wearing an armband. The Supreme Court has accorded some symbolic speech protection under the first amendment.
Free exercise clause
Good samaritan statues
Federal question
Symbolic speech
15. Settlement of civil disputes between parties using neutral mediators or arbitrators without going to court
Summary jury trials
Compensatory damages
Alternative dispute resolution
Negligence
16. The publication of a statement that denies or casts doubt on another's legal ownership of any property - causing financial loss to that property's owner.
Torts(Wrongs)
Answer
Slander of title
Administrative agency
17. Set of books containing published court decisions
Question of law
Reporters
Contributory negligence
tilitarinism
18. Drawing a comparison in order to show a similarity in some respect
Rule of four
Arbitration clause
Analogy
Cyber torts
19. 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.
Appellee
Criminal law
voir dire
Cross-examination
20. Law concerned with private wrongs against individuals
Long arm statue
in personam jurisdiction
Stare Decisis and legal Reasoning
Civil Law
21. A rule of evidence whereby the negligence of an alleged wrongdoer can be inferred from the fact that the accident happened
due proccess clause
Opening statements
abnormally dangerous
Res ipsa loquitur
22. Violation of a law - duty - or other form of obligation - either by engaging in an action or failing to act
breaches
Appellee
Defenses to negligence
Long arm statue
23. The course of action the government takes in response to an issue or problem as deemed by widely held belief.
Equitable maxims
Counterclaim
Causation in fact
Public Policy
24. Someone who petitions a court for redress of a grievance or recovery of a right
Strict product liability
Early neutral case evaluation
First Amendment
Petitioner
25. Everyone in the commercial chain will be liable for the defect. (manafacturer - distrubutor - retailer) *end user is not in the commercial chain.
Small Claims courts
Strict product liability
Long arm statue
Alternative dispute resolution
26. Jurisdiction based upon claims against a person - in contrast to jurisdiction over the person's property
Remedies of Law
Courts of equity
in personam jurisdiction
Statues of limitation
27. The act of delivering a writ or summons upon someone
Service of process
Stages in an A Typical Lawsuit
Slander of quality
Small Claims courts
28. Protects you from unreasonable search and seizure of your home and property
Fourth Amendment
Administrative agency
Privileges and and immunities clause
Origins Of Common Law
29. 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)
Independent regulatory agencies
State level appeal eligibility
Exclusive Jurisdiction
Early neutral case evaluation
30. Handle only bankruptcy proceedings - which are governed by federal bankruptcy law
Bankruptcy courts
Eighth Amendment
Damages
Comparative negligence
31. A question that had to do with the US Constitution - acts of Congress - or treaties; it provides a basis for federal jurisdiction
Summons
Federal question
Rule of four
Second Amendment
32. The location where something takes place - esp. a trial
Alternative dispute resolution
Rejoinder
Question of law
Venue
33. Formal chancery courts - grant unique remedies. These remedies include specific performance - injunction and rescission.
Courts of equity
Rejoinder
Strict product liability
Arbitration
34. (civil law) a law established by following earlier judicial decisions
Early neutral case evaluation
Case law
Slander of quality
Comparative negligence
35. An act or omission without which an event would not have occurred.
Torts(Wrongs)
Business invitees
Causation in fact
Question of law
36. A system of government in which the states form a union and the sovereign power is divided between the central government and the member states
citation
Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
Petitioner
Federal form of government
37. Discussion with a view to reaching agreement; talking about a conflict where both parties give and take to reach a resolution - without attorneys.
Negotiation
Early neutral case evaluation
Motion for a new trial
Cost-benefit analysis
38. No State can draw unreasonable distinctions between its own residents and those persons who happen to live in other States
breaches
Justicable controversy
Privileges and and immunities clause
Proximate cause
39. (law) compensation for losses that can readily be proven to have occurred and for which the injured party has the right to be compensated
Compensatory damages
Stages in an A Typical Lawsuit
Exclusive Jurisdiction
Eighth Amendment
40. Courts that handle cases that involve less than $5000
Rule of four
Small Claims courts
Litigation
Alleges
41. An amendment to the Constitution of the United States guaranteeing the right of free expression
Commerce clause
laches
Rejoinder
First Amendment
42. The First Amendment guarantee that the government will not create and support an official state church
Standing to sue
Administrative law
Trespass to personal property
establishment clause
43. In order to bring a lawsuit before a court a party must have a sufficient 'stake' in a matter to justify seeking relief through the court system
Punitive damages
Standing to sue
Appellant
State level appeal eligibility
44. Enforcable rules governing relationships among individuals and between individuals and thier society.
abnormally dangerous
Pleadings
Privileges and and immunities clause
law
45. 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
Symbolic speech
Business invitees
Slander of title
Legal reasoning
46. (law) compensation in excess of actual damages (a form of punishment awarded in cases of malicious or willful misconduct)
Remedies
Punitive damages
Compensatory damages
Online dispute resolution
47. Relieve you of some liability when reasonable care is used
Opening statements
Good samaritan statues
Hearsay
Opinions
48. Torts committed via the internet
diversity of citizenship
Pleadings
Cyber torts
Strict product liability
49. A wrongful act that the actor had no right to do
Public Policy
Writ of certiorari
Malpractice
Service of process
50. Negate the claim of negligence(assumption of risk - superceding intervening clause)
Rejoinder
Rules of evidence
Motion
Absolute bar