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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. State courts that handle only matters relating to the transfer of a person's assets and obligations after that person's death - including issues relating to custody and guardianship of children
Probate courts
Respondent
Affirmative defense
Question of fact
2. No State can draw unreasonable distinctions between its own residents and those persons who happen to live in other States
law
Checks and balances
Privileges and and immunities clause
American Arbitration Association
3. 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.
Question of law
Stages in an A Typical Lawsuit
Motion for a directed verdict
Corporate social responsibility
4. A defendant's answer or plea denying the truth of the charges against him
Defense
Absolute bar
Third Amendment
Appellant
5. The constitutional amendment designed to protect individuals accused of crimes. It includes the right to counsel - the right to confront witnesses - and the right to a speedy and public trial.
Writ of execution
Alleges
Sixth Amendment
Chancellor
6. The preponderance of evidence which means more likely then not.
Legal reasoning
Closing argument
Burden of proof
Legal and Equitable Remedies
7. Wrongs
Mini-trial
Arbitrability
Torts(Wrongs)
in personam jurisdiction
8. State statute that permits a state to obtain personal jurisdiction over nonresident defendants
Police powers
uniform laws
Long arm statue
law
9. 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
Search warrant
Cyberlaw
tilitarinism
Torts(Wrongs)
10. When the matter is between private parties the constitution laws do not apply. Between individuals and government organizations then constitutional laws apply.
Alleges
When constitutional lawz apply
Venue
Sixth Amendment
11. 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.
Mini-trial
Administrative agency
Federal Jurisdiction
Assumption of risk
12. (law) compensation in excess of actual damages (a form of punishment awarded in cases of malicious or willful misconduct)
Compensatory damages
Closing argument
Punitive damages
Answer
13. Violation of a law - duty - or other form of obligation - either by engaging in an action or failing to act
Trespass to personal property
Affirmative defense
breaches
Ethical reasoning
14. Formal chancery courts - grant unique remedies. These remedies include specific performance - injunction and rescission.
Probable cause
Courts of equity
Historical school
Business invitees
15. The idea that the goal of society should be the greatest happiness for the greatest number of its citizens
Question of fact
Defense
tilitarinism
fradulent Misrepresentation
16. 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.
Absolute bar
Disparagement of property
Cyber torts
Compensatory damages
17. 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
Legal reasoning
diversity of citizenship
Counterclaim
Federal form of government
18. Private proceeding in which each party to a dispute argues its position before the other side - and vice versa. A neutral third party may be present and act as an adviser if the parties fail to reach an agreement
Courts of equity
Early neutral case evaluation
Defenses to negligence
Mini-trial
19. An example that is used to justify similar occurrences at a later time
First Amendment
Precedent
Writ of execution
Business invitees
20. The process by which the parties in a dispute submit their difference to the judgment of an impartial person or group appointed by mutual consent
Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
Arbitration
Contributory negligence
citation
21. 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
Counterclaim
positive law
Categorical imperative
Appellee
22. Protects you from unreasonable search and seizure of your home and property
Symbolic speech
positive law
Closing argument
Fourth Amendment
23. A condensed written summary or abstract
Equal protection clause
Statues of limitation
Cyber torts
Brief
24. Settlement of civil disputes between parties using neutral mediators or arbitrators without going to court
Complaint
Standing to sue
ordinaces
Alternative dispute resolution
25. The party against whom legal action is taken; the party against whom a writ of certiorari is sought.
Respondent
Common law
Origins Of Common Law
Probate courts
26. A major provider of arbitration services
American Arbitration Association
Slander of quality
Motion for judgement on the pleadings
Opening statements
27. Enforcable rules governing relationships among individuals and between individuals and thier society.
Cyberlaw
Alleges
Symbolic speech
law
28. (law) a pleading by the defendant in reply to a plaintiff's surrejoinder
Civil Law
Slander of title
positive law
Rebuttal
29. 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.
Tenth Amendment
abnormally dangerous
Statutory Law
Binding authority
30. (law) negligence allocated between the plaintiff and the defendant with a corresponding reduction in damages paid to the plaintiff
Cyberlaw
Comparative negligence
Concurrent Jurisdiction
Online dispute resolution
31. 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
Cases on point
Equal protection clause
Alternative dispute resolution
32. The body of rules and regulations and orders and decisions created by administrative agencies of government
Cases on point
Administrative law
Eighth Amendment
Cyberlaw
33. 1. Federal statute 2. Constitution(U.S.) 3. Diversity of Citizenship($75 -000 or more)
Federal Jurisdiction
When constitutional lawz apply
Search warrant
Administrative agency
34. 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.
Cases on point
law
Affirmative defense
Statutory Law
35. Negate the claim of negligence(assumption of risk - superceding intervening clause)
Absolute bar
Sixth Amendment
Online dispute resolution
Small Claims courts
36. Assumption of risk - Superseding cause - and contributory and comparative negligence.
Defenses to negligence
Cost-benefit analysis
fradulent Misrepresentation
Slander of quality
37. Part of the 14th Amendment which guarentees that no state deny basic rights to its people
due proccess clause
Syllogism
Arbitration clause
Torts(Wrongs)
38. Three remedies known as land - items of value - or money
Statutory Law
Res ipsa loquitur
Remedies of Law
Arbitrability
39. Ethical or unethical behaviors by employees in the context of their jobs
Tenth Amendment
Business Ethics
Writ of execution
Privileges and and immunities clause
40. A reference to or a quotation from an authority
In rem jurisdiction
citation
Negligence
Malpractice
41. A question that had to do with the US Constitution - acts of Congress - or treaties; it provides a basis for federal jurisdiction
Federal question
Alternative dispute resolution
Slander of title
Areas of Law that may affect business decision making
42. Propositions or general statements of equitable rules
Equitable maxims
Closing argument
Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
Award
43. Someone who petitions a court for redress of a grievance or recovery of a right
Origins Of Common Law
Fourth Amendment
Petitioner
Full faith and credit clause
44. A common law writ issued by a superior court to one of inferior jurisdiction demanding the record of a particular case
Respondent
Writ of certiorari
Compensatory damages
Ethical reasoning
45. Law concerned with public wrongs against society
Criminal law
Rule of four
Business Ethics
Summary jury trials
46. A clause in a contract providing for arbitration of disputes arising under the contract
Writ of certiorari
positivist school
Cross-examination
Arbitration clause
47. A question asked to determine what is true or to what extent something is true
Motion for judgement as a matter of law
Question of fact
Cyberlaw
Service of process
48. (law) compensation for losses that can readily be proven to have occurred and for which the injured party has the right to be compensated
Statues of limitation
Compensatory damages
Jurisdiction
Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
49. A rule of evidence whereby the negligence of an alleged wrongdoer can be inferred from the fact that the accident happened
Rules of evidence
Malpractice
Res ipsa loquitur
Federal form of government
50. The branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do
Equitable maxims
Award
Motion for a new trial
jurisprudence