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Business Law Vocab - 2
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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. No self incrimination / due process (miranda warnings)
strict liability
fifth amendment
regulation of interstate commerce
In the senate - after the bill leave committee it travels to...
2. To the conference committee
Minimal scrutiny
Procedural due process
slander
After the bill is released from committees in the two houses - it goes...
3. Injuries caused by neglect and oversight rather than deliberate conduct.
Negligence and strict liability
Ethics
promissory estoppel
Two types of dispute resolution
4. Baron Montesquieu
In the house of representatives - after a bill has left the first committee - it travels to...
French social commentator and political thinker who created the Separation of Powers theory
element 3 of a negligence lawsuit
Tortious interference with a contract
5. Article I - Section 8
6. There is no intention to a contract but the plaintiff gives some benefit to the defendant who knows the plaintiff expects compensation. it would be unjust not to award the damages.
Statute
quasi contract
Litigation
letters of intent
7. Type of intentional tort (and crime); injuring someone by deliberate deception
element 2 of a negligence lawsuit
letters of intent
Fraud
Rationale
8. If a company does not address an insubordinate employee - they become liable
licensee
negligent retention
To prove injury the defamation must show...
RICO
9. A defendant engaging in an ultrahazardous activity is virtually always liable for any harm that results
implied contract
eighth amendment
Step one in filing a civil law suit
strict liability
10. Trial Court
Dicta
Federal District Court
How Federal Law has jurisdiction in a lawsuit
Incorporation clause
11. A violation of a duty imposed by a civil law.
Contributory Negligence
French social commentator and political thinker who created the Separation of Powers theory
tort
Tortious interference with a contract
12. Type of business crime; taking or using someones property
assault
Appellant
conversion(2)
Medicare fraud
13. Trial.
Appellee
Citation
Tortious interference with a contract
Step four in filing a civil law suit
14. Each side may ask the other side to produce relevant documents for inspection and copying.
Conference committee
Stare Decisis
Appellant
Request of production of documents and things
15. Unintentional tort - breach of a duty of care
Insurance Fraud
Negligence
assault
Who regulates commercial speech
16. Type of defense; when the government induces the defendant to break the law.
Administrative Law
entrapment
Step two in filing a civil law suit
coercion
17. The legal doctrine whereby an act is considered negligent because it violates a statute (or regulation)
The job of the Rules Committee
promissory estoppel
After a bill enters the house of rep or senate - it goes where...
Negligence per se
18. Nine.
crime burden of proof
element 2 of a negligence lawsuit
Number of Justices in the Supreme Court?
Negligence
19. Bottom Line answer
Mediation
Holding
When a bill is introduced to the house of representatives it must have a...
Two types of dispute resolution
20. Forbidding a law to be passed
Veto
insanity
entrapment
Substantial effect rule
21. Proposed statutes - submitted to Congress or a legislature
Bill
Federalism
crime burden of proof
eighth amendment
22. Type of intentional tort; the intentional restraint of another without reasonable cause
Dissenting Opinion
false imprisonment
Mail Fraud
Common Law
23. When a law remains untouched on the presidents desk for over 10 days after congress's adjournment
Pocket Veto
trespass
Commercial Exploitation
RICO
24. Gender related; such laws must be substantially related to important government objectives. (gov't cant discriminate based on gender through the law making process)
larceny
Appellee
Intermediate scrutiny
Administrative Law
25. Aka imminent domain; government cant take a persons land unless they prove it will be used for a public purpose and provide proper compensation.
misdemeanor
Takings clause
Equal Protection Clause
Ethics
26. Capacity; the parties must be adults and mentally competent
letters of intent
express contract
To prove injury the defamation must show...
fourth requirement of a contract
27. Defamation - obscenity - speech that creates danger
felony
mirror image rule
What is not protected under the first amendment
Shire Reeves
28. Business tort; using someones likeness or voice without their permission.
Ethics
Step three in filing a civil law suit
eighth amendment
Commercial Exploitation
29. A document filed by the losing party requesting the federal court to appeal a case.
Writ of Certiorari
mens rea
revocation
Two types of dispute resolution
30. The documents that begin a lawsuit: consists of the complaint - answer and sometimes a reply
Strict scrutiny
Pleadings
Physical and Mental examination
Step one in filing a civil law suit
31. Type of intentional tort; an act that makes a person fear imminent battery
Current Chief Justice
The last step of a bill in the House of representatives is...
assault
tort
32. During the option period of a contract
What section of the Constitution grants congress it's powers?
breach of duty
you cannot revoke an offer...
Step three in filing a civil law suit
33. Presiding officer (senator)
Pocket Veto
First African American Justice
when a bill is introduced to the Sentate is must have...
Appellant
34. Complaint and summons are served to defendant; answer is provided within 30 days
express contract
Step one in filing a civil law suit
counter offer
Appellee
35. Common law rule; acceptance must be made on the same terms as the offer
Mail Fraud
slander
mens rea
mirror image rule
36. Type of intentnional tort; intentionally entering land that belongs to someone else or remaining on land after being asked to leave
trespass
Dissenting Opinion
misdemeanor
negligent hiring
37. If the plaintiff is even slightly negligent he/she recovers nothing
Fraud
Common Law
Contributory Negligence
Res ipsa loquitor
38. (1)statement (2)falseness (3)communicated (4)injury
For a bill to pass...
Qualifications for defamation
Where the bill goes after conference committee
when a bill is introduced to the Sentate is must have...
39. A letter that summarizes the negotiating progress
Legal Issue Presented
letters of intent
Wire Fraud
you cannot revoke an offer...
40. Termination by simply turning down the offer
rejection
express contract
Legal Issue Presented
Fraud
41. No state can deny citizens due process. (14th amendment) this incorporates states to be ruled under the constitution
Incorporation clause
Appellant
Wire Fraud
Conference committee
42. Harm caused by a deliberate action
strict liability
intentional tort
Citation
mens rea
43. A person who volluntarily enters a situation that has an obvious danger cannot complain is he/she is injured
Litigation
Incorporation clause
How much of a majority is it to override a presidents veto
Assumption of the risk
44. Law made by federal agencies; rules and regulations
second requirement of a contract
Administrative Law
uniform commercial code
Res ipsa loquitor
45. Arbitration and Mediation
Two types of dispute resolution
Conference committee
conversion
First African American Justice
46. The defendant (defamer) knew the statement was false or acted with reckless disregard to the truth
Bill of Right
Style of a Case
Legal Issue Presented
Malice
47. The study of how people ought to act; does not always mean legal.
Where the bill goes after conference committee
Ethics
embezzlement
Legal Issue Presented
48. You have no duty to assist someone in peril unless you created the danger
49. Twelve.
Total circuits in the court of appeals
fifth amendment
insanity
Legal Issue Presented
50. Due process or the right to a hearing
Procedural due process
fifth amendment
felony
Request of production of documents and things