SUBJECTS
|
BROWSE
|
CAREER CENTER
|
POPULAR
|
JOIN
|
LOGIN
Business Skills
|
Soft Skills
|
Basic Literacy
|
Certifications
About
|
Help
|
Privacy
|
Terms
|
Email
Search
Test your basic knowledge |
Business Law Test - 2
Start Test
Study First
Subjects
:
law
,
business-law
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
If you are not ready to take this test, you can
study here
.
Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
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. Method of settling criminal cases by pleading guilty to charges in an attempt to lessen charges/consequences. Can either plead guilty - lesser charge - or nolo contendere(no contest).
Inchoate Crimes
Negligence (tort)
Plea Bargaining
Tacking
2. A courts power over the person involved in the action. Personal and best type of jurisdiction.
Tresspass to land
Doctrine of strict liabilities
In Personum
Deposition
3. Confrontation Clause - rights of the accused in criminal law be guaranteed a speedy public trail as well as the right to seek counsel
Bill of Rights - Amendment 6
Alternative Dispute Resolution(ADR)
In Rem
Respondeat Superior
4. Life estate measured on someone elses natural life.
Bill of Rights - Amendment 5
Nuisance (private)
Alternative Dispute Resolution(ADR)
Estate Pur Autrie Vie
5. Freedom of speech - religion - press - rights to assemble - and petition of government
In Personum
what are the 3 types of torts
Respondeat Superior
Bill of Rights - Amendment 1
6. Not held liable under respondeat superior. Cannot be held vicariously liable for the tortuous acts and damage of the contractor during the time which the contractor is working on private property.
Independent Contractor
what are the 6/7 statutes of frauds
what are the 3 types of torts
In Personum
7. The intent of the person committing the crime is transferred outcome of the act. Used in both criminal and tort law.
Doctrine of Transferred Intent
Jurisdiction
Tort
Quit-Claim
8. Right to enter land owned by another and makes certain use of it or to take something from land. i.e. utility workers - firefighters.
Reasonable suspicion
Quit-Claim
Easement
Nuisance (public)
9. Each adverse possessor can tack there time to others when trying to obtain a quite title on a property.
Tacking
Strict Liability (tort)
Doctrine of strict liabilities
Mens rea
10. Court can file lean on persons property.
In Rem
Doctrine of Transferred Intent
Felony
what are the 2 types of ADR
11. Right against cruel and unusual punishment - includes excessive fines
5th Amendment Immunity
Deposition
Life Estate
Bill of Rights - Amendment 8
12. Arbitration - Mediation.
Quit-Claim
Joint Tenants with the Right of Survivor-ship(JTWTROS)
Alternative Dispute Resolution(ADR)
what are the 2 types of ADR
13. If one tenant passes away - the other claims full ownership of all property.
Common Law Crimes
Joint Tenants with the Right of Survivor-ship(JTWTROS)
1st Amendment Limitations
what are the 4 types of slander
14. Tort defending against spoken defamation of persons.
what are the 4 factors of Negligence (tort)
Parole Evidence Rule
Doctrine Of Fusion
Slander
15. Unreasonable interference with a right held in common by the general public
Independent Contractor
Expressed Warranty
Nuisance (public)
Deposition
16. Common law - injured based on defendants negligence and therefore presumed to be at fault. i.e. lawnmower and dog; latin for 'the thing speaks for itself'
5th Amendment Immunity
what are the 6/7 statutes of frauds
Res Ispa Loquitur
Covenant
17. Careless conduct. Tort that protects from unintentional but careless conduct; Determine whether 'reasonable person' would have done this. 4 factors
what are the 6/7 statutes of frauds
Strict Liability (tort)
Negligence (tort)
Tresspass to personal property
18. 8 common law crimes form the basis of penil (criminal) code. Mrs m lamb
what are the 4 types of slander
Mechanics Lean
Common Law Crimes
Bill of Rights - Amendment 8
19. Attempt to settle civil cases before trial. Required in the state of FL. Two types
In Personum
Bill of Rights - Amendment 8
Tort
Alternative Dispute Resolution(ADR)
20. FSA owner can grant ownership of property to someone for the measured on the duration of their natural life. Once dead the land goes back to FSA owner.
Alternative Dispute Resolution(ADR)
Tacking
Tenants in Common
Life Estate
21. Prohibits discrimination by covered employers on the basis or race - color - religion - sex or national origin.
Independent Contractor
Tacking
Title 7 of the Civil Rights Act of 1964(Employment Discrimination/Harassment)
Bill of Rights - Amendment 1
22. Spoken word - telling lies - publicizing - causing damage.
Interference with Contractual Relationships
Inchoate Crimes
Estate Pur Autrie Vie
what are the 4 types of slander
23. Ownership where tenants own the undivided property. If passed away heir will take over the undivided ownership.
Bill of Rights - Amendment 5
Parole Evidence Rule
Tenants in Common
Covenant
24. Civil law rule that prohibits the same dispute between two parties from being reopen by a court after final judgment has been entered and all appeals exhausted.
what are the 8 common law crimes
In Rem
Res Judicata
Nuisance (private)
25. An employer is responsible for the actions of employees performed within the course of their employment; 'let the master answer'
Joint Tenants with the Right of Survivor-ship(JTWTROS)
Warranty Deed
Title 7 of the Civil Rights Act of 1964(Employment Discrimination/Harassment)
Respondeat Superior
26. The physical part of the crime; the guilty act
Tresspass to personal property
Actus reas
Nuisance (public)
what are the 6/7 statutes of frauds
27. In property law - an absolute ownership interest in an estate without restrictions. Highest and best form of property ownership.
Court Of Equity
Fee Simple Absolute(FSA)
Tresspass to land
Bill of Rights - Amendment 8
28. Bill Of Rights protection against self-incarceration and just compensation
Doctrine Of Fusion
Bill of Rights - Amendment 5
Bill of Rights - Amendment 14
Bill of Rights - Amendment 6
29. Citizenship Rights
Res Judicata
Bill of Rights - Amendment 14
Fee Simple Absolute(FSA)
Adverse Possession
30. Intentional; negligence - strict liability
what are the 3 types of torts
what are the 2 types of ADR
Fee Simple Absolute(FSA)
Vicarious Liabilities
31. Felony; Misdemeanor
what are the 2 Main Categories of Crime
Res Ispa Loquitur
Reasonable suspicion
Intentional (tort)
32. 1.Contracts in consideration of marriage; 2. Contracts that cannot be performed within one year(statute of limitations); 3. Contracts for the transfer of an interest in land; 4. Contracts by the executor of a will to pay a debt of the estate with his
what are the 6/7 statutes of frauds
what are the 8 common law crimes
Tacking
Tresspass to personal property
33. Go to prison for greater than or equal to 1yr and/or be fined greater than or equal to $1000; Possible loss of voting rights and carrying weapon; different degrees.
what are the 6/7 statutes of frauds
Felony
Expressed Warranty
Quantum Meriut
34. Breaks the doctrine of fusion apart; conspiracy - attempt - and solicitation. these crimes have no actus reas - just mens rea.
Bill of Rights - Amendment 14
Inchoate Crimes
Doctrine Of Fusion
Plea Bargaining
35. The plaintiff needs to prove only that the tort happened and that the defendant was responsible.
Doctrine of strict liabilities
5th Amendment Immunity
Tort
Tresspass to land
36. Only refers to conduct. Judge can order someone who is not doing something he/she is legally required to do to start doing it and vice-versa.
Tresspass to personal property
Court Of Equity
5th Amendment Immunity
Alternative Dispute Resolution(ADR)
37. What they intend to do. Totality of circumstance measures the intent before - during - and after the act. What is examined by lawyer.
Actus reas
Intentional (tort)
Bill of Rights - Amendment 5
Inchoate Crimes
38. Liability without proving to be at fault.
Misdemeanor
Quit-Claim
Strict Liability (tort)
Res Ispa Loquitur
39. The criminal intent that must be established; the guilty mind
Res Ispa Loquitur
Mens rea
what are the 4 factors of Negligence (tort)
Life Estate
40. Murder - rape - sodomy - manslaughter - larceny - arson - mayhem - burglary
Adverse Possession
What is Law
what are the 4 factors of Negligence (tort)
what are the 8 common law crimes
41. Form of strict - secondary liabilities that arise under the common law doc. of agency(respondeat superior). If liability for the tort requires a state of mind - the directing officer must have that state of mind.
Vicarious Liabilities
Covenant
Doctrine of Transferred Intent
Quantum Meriut
42. Allows officers to investigate people - less strict then probable cause; 4th amendment
Statute of Frauds
Reasonable suspicion
Tresspass to personal property
Title 7 of the Civil Rights Act of 1964(Employment Discrimination/Harassment)
43. You are entitled to be paid the reasonable value of your services and material in a contract action when you have completed the work and the buyer refuses to pay because of some 'minor' difference in what was contracted for.
Quantum Meriut
Expressed Warranty
Adverse Possession
In Rem
44. Unwritten - unexpressed promise or guarantee that a court infers to exist and that accompanies a good/product. i.e. 'boomerang example'.
Vicarious Liabilities
Tacking
Respondeat Superior
Implied Warranty
45. Act of taking ownership of a property by openly - notoriously - and continuously living on a property in an uninterrupted environment for 7yrs.(Quite Title)
Intentional (tort)
what are the 2 Main Categories of Crime
Joint Tenants with the Right of Survivor-ship(JTWTROS)
Adverse Possession
46. Property law in writing - an agreement between two or more parties that places certain restrictions on the use of property or obligations the owner of the property to take specifications with respect to the land.
Inchoate Crimes
Strict Liability (tort)
Covenant
Double Jeopardy
47. Substantive common law that claims any agreement made by both parties prior to signing the contract that was not incorporated into the contract is barred upon signing by this rule in seeking to alter the terms of the contract.
Parole Evidence Rule
Eminent Domain
Felony
Tort
48. Unauthorized intrusion by a person or a thing on land belonging to another - regardless of whether it was a mistake. Not necessary to set foot on land to constitute trespassing.
Tacking
Slander
Jurisdiction
Tresspass to land
49. Duty - breach of duty - proximate cause - damage.
what are the 4 factors of Negligence (tort)
Parole Evidence Rule
Strict Liability (tort)
Interference with Contractual Relationships
50. Power of the government to condemn property for a public use without consent of the owner(condemnation).; With rights from 5th amendment comes the issue of 'just compensation'
Vicarious Liabilities
Felony
what are the 4 factors of Negligence (tort)
Eminent Domain