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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. 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
Federal form of government
breaches
Tenth Amendment
Complaint
2. Everyone in the commercial chain will be liable for the defect. (manafacturer - distrubutor - retailer) *end user is not in the commercial chain.
Legal realism
Strict liability
Strict product liability
Rebuttal
3. 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
Absolute bar
uniform laws
Motion
Analogy
4. A doctrine by which equitable relief is denied to one who has waited TOO long to seek relief
dram shop acts
Absolute bar
Question of law
laches
5. Rules governing the admissibility of evidence in trial courts.
Federal Jurisdiction
Rules of evidence
Fourth Amendment
Damages
6. The publication of false information about another's product - alleging that it is not what its seller claims.
Litigation
Punitive damages
Slander of quality
Case law
7. An ethical principle that holds that you should never take any action that infringes on others; agreed-upon rights
Principle of rights
Mini-trial
Legal and Equitable Remedies
Federal Jurisdiction
8. Liability without fault. (Strict product liability)
Exclusive Jurisdiction
Compensatory damages
Strict liability
Alternative dispute resolution
9. 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.
Constitutional Law
Award
Default judgement
Fifth Amendment
10. A body of rulings made by judges that become part of a nation's legal system
Common law
When constitutional lawz apply
Disparagement of property
importance of common law
11. Previously decided cases that are as similar as possible to the one under consideration
Police powers
Defense
Cases on point
Arbitrability
12. Someone who petitions a court for redress of a grievance or recovery of a right
Causation in fact
Alleges
Writ of certiorari
Petitioner
13. Precedents are determined under stare decisis. Courts of law and courts or equity have been combined.
tilitarinism
Online dispute resolution
Negligence
importance of common law
14. If the injured party can be made whole by receiving something of economic value - the remedy is a legal remedy [damages] - if a remedy at law is inadequate - a litigant may seek a remedy in equity - which involves notions of fair dealing and justice
Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
Reporters
Good samaritan statues
Legal and Equitable Remedies
15. Specific length of time an individual can sue for injury resulting from negligence
Slander of title
Statues of limitation
Mini-trial
State Jurisdiction
16. The government may not house soldiers in private homes without consent of the owner
Complaint
voir dire
Default judgement
Third Amendment
17. 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
Courts of equity
Arbitrability
Case law
18. Drawing a comparison in order to show a similarity in some respect
Courts of equity
Binding authority
Analogy
Res ipsa loquitur
19. (law) negligence allocated between the plaintiff and the defendant with a corresponding reduction in damages paid to the plaintiff
Areas of Law that may affect business decision making
Comparative negligence
Petitioner
Opening statements
20. A major provider of arbitration services
Natural law
American Arbitration Association
In rem jurisdiction
citation
21. (law) a pleading made by a defendant in response to the plaintiff's replication
Strict product liability
American Arbitration Association
Business Ethics
Rejoinder
22. Law concerned with private wrongs against individuals
Civil Law
Hearsay
Malpractice
Assumption of risk
23. A routine court order that attempts to enforce the judgment that has been granted to a plaintiff by authorizing a sheriff to carry it out
In rem jurisdiction
Bill of Rights
Motion for a new trial
Writ of execution
24. Law concerned with public wrongs against society
Ninth Amendment
Criminal law
Answer
Rebuttal
25. Protects you from unreasonable search and seizure of your home and property
Opening statements
Fourth Amendment
Commerce clause
Cases on point
26. A question that had to do with the US Constitution - acts of Congress - or treaties; it provides a basis for federal jurisdiction
Courts of law
Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
diversity of citizenship
Federal question
27. 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.
Historical school
Cross-examination
Statutory Law
State and Federal Court Systems
28. Motion to dismiss - motion for judgment on the pleadings - motion of summary judgement(amont others - motion to strike - motion to make more definite and certain - motion for judgement on the pleadings - motion to compel discovery - motion for summar
Pretrial motions
Civil Law
Contributory negligence
Remedies of Law
29. A rule of evidence whereby the negligence of an alleged wrongdoer can be inferred from the fact that the accident happened
Bill of Rights
Res ipsa loquitur
Respondent
Jurisdiction
30. Highest official of a monarch. Granted new an unique remedies.
Brief
Chancellor
Legal and Equitable Remedies
Respondent Superior
31. Clause in the Constitution (Article IV - Section 1) requiring each state to recognize the civil judgments rendered by the courts of the other states and to accept their public records and acts as valid
Full faith and credit clause
Symbolic speech
Trade libel
Pretrial motions
32. The power to speak the law.
Arbitrability
Motion for judgement as a matter of law
Rebuttal
Jurisdiction
33. Contains the courts reasons for its decision - the rules of law that apply - and the judgement
Cost-benefit analysis
Motion for judgement as a matter of law
Motion
Opinions
34. Claims
Ethical reasoning
Search warrant
Alleges
Motion for a new trial
35. Propositions or general statements of equitable rules
Equitable maxims
Respondent
Public Policy
Syllogism
36. The First Amendment guarantee that citizens may freely engage in the religious activities of their choice
Free exercise clause
Federal question
Cross-examination
Symbolic speech
37. 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.
Police powers
Probate courts
Corporate social responsibility
Filtering software
38. Occurs when one party to a contract is not given full or accurate information by the other party about the contract subject matter - Intentional misrepresentation of material fact - reasonably relied on by plaintiff resulting in damages
fradulent Misrepresentation
Malpractice
Bankruptcy courts
Pleadings
39. To be on the land of another without right or permission of the owner
Trespass to land
Long arm statue
tilitarinism
dram shop acts
40. Authority shared by both federal and state courts
Contributory negligence
Concurrent Jurisdiction
Third Amendment
Negotiation
41. 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
Fifth Amendment
Negligence
positivist school
Stages in an A Typical Lawsuit
42. 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.
Disparagement of property
fradulent Misrepresentation
establishment clause
Rule of four
43. A condensed written summary or abstract
Business Ethics
fradulent Misrepresentation
law
Brief
44. To confirm priestly authority upon
abnormally dangerous
Summary jury trials
Contributory negligence
ordinaces
45. A rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society
Pretrial motions
Case law
Natural law
Negotiation
46. A brief outline of what the defendant and the plaintiff will try to prove.
Standing to sue
First Amendment
Brief
Opening statements
47. A reference to or a quotation from an authority
Strict product liability
Cyber torts
Rule of four
citation
48. (civil law) a law established by following earlier judicial decisions
Equitable maxims
jurisprudence
Motion for a new trial
Case law
49. Statutes adopted in many states that impose strict liability upon tavern owners for injuries to third parties caused by their intoxicated patrons
Motion
dram shop acts
Strict product liability
Common law
50. The body of conventional - or written - law of a particular society at a particular point in time.
positive law
Causation in fact
Origins Of Common Law
Service of process