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Business Law Vocab - 2
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Law made by federal agencies; rules and regulations
Administrative Law
How much of a majority is it to override a presidents veto
Pleadings
The primary drafter of the constitution
2. A federal statute that applies to the sale of goods (NOT real estate or services)
revocation
Minimal scrutiny
uniform commercial code
Mail box rule
3. Type of intentional tort (and crime); injuring someone by deliberate deception
negligent hiring
Fraud
mens rea
eighth amendment
4. Arbitration and Mediation
Arbitration
Two types of dispute resolution
Voir Dire
negligent retention
5. Trial Court
Common Law
Federal District Court
Arbitration
Litigation
6. Presiding officer (senator)
when a bill is introduced to the Sentate is must have...
Common Law
revocation
Fraud
7. First 10 amendments of the constitution; Compromise between federalist and antifederalists; Protects natural rights of liberty and property
Bill of Right
Conference committee
First African American Justice
How Federal Law has jurisdiction in a lawsuit
8. Termination by simply turning down the offer
promissory estoppel
rejection
Commercial Exploitation
In the house of representatives - after a bill has left the first committee - it travels to...
9. Reasoning court gives for the holding
Collective Responsibility
strict liability
Rationale
First Woman Justice
10. Allows the FBI to surveillance citizens with out a search warrant from a judge
uniform commercial code
Malice
Patriot Act
Number of Justices in the Supreme Court?
11. Proposed statutes - submitted to Congress or a legislature
For a bill to pass...
Voir Dire
element 1 of a negligence lawsuit
Bill
12. Defamation - obscenity - speech that creates danger
conversion(2)
Mail Fraud
What is not protected under the first amendment
misdemeanor
13. Type of business crime; the trespassing taking of personal property with intent to steal it. defendant never had the right to have said property in posession
larceny
when a bill is introduced to the Sentate is must have...
Appellee
Style of a Case
14. Laws involving economic and social regulation; laws that regard economic or social status are presumed valid and corporations and people can be classified
Assumption of the risk
Supremacy clause
Minimal scrutiny
licensee
15. A person who volluntarily enters a situation that has an obvious danger cannot complain is he/she is injured
Writ of Certiorari
Significance of 'On the Laws and Customs of England'
Bill of Right
Assumption of the risk
16. Reference code; label for looking the case up
Citation
Substantial effect rule
letters of intent
negligent retention
17. Fraud using electronic communications of any kind;
Where the bill goes after conference committee
How much of a majority is it to override a presidents veto
Interrogatories
Wire Fraud
18. Freedom of speech.
element 4 of a negligence lawsuit
first amendment
The percentage vote to pass a bill
Legal Issue Presented
19. Capacity; the parties must be adults and mentally competent
fourth requirement of a contract
Current Chief Justice
The primary drafter of the constitution
you cannot revoke an offer...
20. Someone on the property by right of a public place. highest duty of due care is owed to avoid negligence
Negligence
invitee
RICO
Concurring Opinion
21. There was a breach of due care
What Freedom of speech includes
felony
strict liability
element 2 of a negligence lawsuit
22. The process of one party's lawyer to question the other party or a potential witness under oath.
element 3 of a negligence lawsuit
Interrogatories
Depositions
express contract
23. Attorneys ask jurors a set of questions to determine bias
In the house of representatives - after a bill has left the first committee - it travels to...
Substantial effect rule
Step two in filing a civil law suit
Voir Dire
24. Type of intentnional tort; intentionally entering land that belongs to someone else or remaining on land after being asked to leave
Federal District Court
trespass
Bill of Right
uniform commercial code
25. A defendant engaging in an ultrahazardous activity is virtually always liable for any harm that results
strict liability
larceny
Appellee
Comparative Fault
26. The party opposing the appeal
Interrogatories
insanity
Appellee
What is not protected under the first amendment
27. Harm caused by a deliberate action
intentional tort
Bystander's obligation means...
Veto
embezzlement
28. The documents that begin a lawsuit: consists of the complaint - answer and sometimes a reply
Tortious interference with a contract
strict liability
Pleadings
Voir Dire
29. To a committee to be studied; and then debated and voted upon; this is where new amendments can be added.
fifth amendment
element 3 of a negligence lawsuit
Negligence
After a bill enters the house of rep or senate - it goes where...
30. A party may ask the court to order an examination to find out if physical or mental damage is relevant
Appellee
Step three in filing a civil law suit
Physical and Mental examination
Veto
31. Collected taxes and helped keep the peace in tenth century England. Equivalent to a modern day Sheriff.
negligent hiring
fifth amendment
What is not protected under the first amendment
Shire Reeves
32. When the bill is debated to the floor of the house.
Step one in filing a civil law suit
First African American Justice
battery
The last step of a bill in the House of representatives is...
33. Unintentional tort - breach of a duty of care
mirror image rule
Equal Protection Clause
Negligence
Contributory Negligence
34. You have no duty to assist someone in peril unless you created the danger
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35. A defendant breaches his duty of due care by failing to behave the way a reasonable person would under similar circumstances
Step two in filing a civil law suit
breach of duty
misdemeanor
What section of the Constitution grants congress it's powers?
36. They set time limits for debate - decide how fast the law should be deliberated and when the bill goes to the floor for debate.
when a bill is introduced to the Sentate is must have...
mens rea
The job of the Rules Committee
Bill of Right
37. The obligation to decide current cases based on previous rulings.
Stare Decisis
Request of production of documents and things
eighth amendment
precedent
38. (1)misrepresentation (2)concealment with the intent to take advantage of someone; deception of a person for the purpose of obtaining money or property
Fraud
Incorporation clause
Total circuits in the court of appeals
Medicare fraud
39. When there is no contract - but the defendant makes a promise that will induce reliance. it would be unjust not to enforce the promise
agreement
Statute
Mail Fraud
promissory estoppel
40. United States is a party; the case is about a federal statute; the suit is between citizens of two different states and the the amt is over 75 -000
Dicta
counter offer
Collective Responsibility
How Federal Law has jurisdiction in a lawsuit
41. Section of the fourteenth amendment where courts must provide equal protection to all cases based on scrutiny
Equal Protection Clause
tort
Who regulates commercial speech
Appellant
42. The introduction of a neutral third party in resolving a dispute; not a binding decision. Voluntary settlement.
When a bill is introduced to the house of representatives it must have a...
first requirement of a contract
Mediation
Arbitration
43. Action - print and other expression. Broader than the spoken word
What Freedom of speech includes
operation of law
invitee
intrusion
44. Injury
false imprisonment
Federal District Court
element 5 of a negligence lawsuit
promissory estoppel
45. Type of intentional tort; the intentional touching of an individual in a way that is unwarranted or offensive
battery
misdemeanor
Common Law
Statute
46. If the plaintiff is even slightly negligent he/she recovers nothing
Physical and Mental examination
first amendment
breach of duty
Contributory Negligence
47. A subtype of rejection
fourth amendment
embezzlement
counter offer
Current Chief Justice
48. Pretrial motions; motions for a summary judgement; asks the court to resolve a lawsuit before it goes to trial
tort
Step three in filing a civil law suit
Patriot Act
Interrogatories
49. Twelve.
Total circuits in the court of appeals
Shire Reeves
Writ of Certiorari
felony
50. A law passed by a legislative body
Statute
invitee
conversion
Step three in filing a civil law suit