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Business Law Vocab - 2
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1. Complaint and summons are served to defendant; answer is provided within 30 days
Ethics
French social commentator and political thinker who created the Separation of Powers theory
Step one in filing a civil law suit
Negligence per se
2. The sharing of powers between levels of government
letters of intent
Legal Issue Presented
negligent hiring
Federalism
3. John Roberts
Current Chief Justice
Interrogatories
Collective Responsibility
mirror image rule
4. Type of intentional tort; the intentional restraint of another without reasonable cause
Mediation
Fraud
Takings clause
false imprisonment
5. Judge made law; based on precedent - which leads to stare decisis
Common Law
First Woman Justice
agreement
What section of the Constitution grants congress it's powers?
6. Type of intent to be proved; means the guilty act
actus reus
Significance of 'On the Laws and Customs of England'
Holding
crime burden of proof
7. There is an established duty of due care
implied contract
Bill
element 1 of a negligence lawsuit
Interrogatories
8. Laws involving economic and social regulation; laws that regard economic or social status are presumed valid and corporations and people can be classified
first amendment
Federal District Court
Pocket Veto
Minimal scrutiny
9. Aka imminent domain; government cant take a persons land unless they prove it will be used for a public purpose and provide proper compensation.
Henry DeBracton
Takings clause
element 5 of a negligence lawsuit
felony
10. Collected taxes and helped keep the peace in tenth century England. Equivalent to a modern day Sheriff.
Filibuster
slander
Shire Reeves
uniform commercial code
11. Capacity; the parties must be adults and mentally competent
false imprisonment
How much of a majority is it to override a presidents veto
First Woman Justice
fourth requirement of a contract
12. A plaintiff may generally recover even if he/she is partially negligible
Administrative Law
Negligence and strict liability
Current Chief Justice
Comparative Fault
13. A law passed by a legislative body
French social commentator and political thinker who created the Separation of Powers theory
lible
Common Law
Statute
14. When the bill is debated to the floor of the house.
The last step of a bill in the House of representatives is...
In the senate - after the bill leave committee it travels to...
Number of judges on the panel in the Court of Appeals
fifth amendment
15. Termination by simply turning down the offer
To prove injury the defamation must show...
rejection
third requirement of a contract
first amendment
16. Type of business crime; taking or using someones property
conversion(2)
trespass
John Locke
RICO
17. The process of one party's lawyer to question the other party or a potential witness under oath.
Depositions
intrusion
coercion
Litigation
18. Type of defense; when the government induces the defendant to break the law.
first requirement of a contract
Shire Reeves
entrapment
Number of judges on the panel in the Court of Appeals
19. Type of intentional tort (and crime); injuring someone by deliberate deception
What is not protected under the first amendment
Fraud
Contributory Negligence
misdemeanor
20. It must be voted on and approved by both houses and then approved by the president. then it is a law
How much of a majority is it to override a presidents veto
Holding
Conference committee
For a bill to pass...
21. Legality; the subject matter must be legal
fifth amendment
Writ of Certiorari
third requirement of a contract
Bystander's obligation means...
22. There was a breach of due care
element 2 of a negligence lawsuit
eighth amendment
Citation
promissory estoppel
23. The introduction of a neutral third party in resolving a dispute; not a binding decision. Voluntary settlement.
Legal Issue Presented
Mediation
Negligence and strict liability
uniform commercial code
24. Pretrial motions; motions for a summary judgement; asks the court to resolve a lawsuit before it goes to trial
Shire Reeves
Step three in filing a civil law suit
The primary drafter of the constitution
negligent hiring
25. Injuries caused by neglect and oversight rather than deliberate conduct.
Step three in filing a civil law suit
fourth amendment
Negligence and strict liability
fifth amendment
26. A person who volluntarily enters a situation that has an obvious danger cannot complain is he/she is injured
How much of a majority is it to override a presidents veto
implied contract
Assumption of the risk
Collective Responsibility
27. When there is no contract - but the defendant makes a promise that will induce reliance. it would be unjust not to enforce the promise
first requirement of a contract
express contract
promissory estoppel
you cannot revoke an offer...
28. To the conference committee
Equal Protection Clause
In the house of representatives - after a bill has left the first committee - it travels to...
First African American Justice
After the bill is released from committees in the two houses - it goes...
29. Refers to lawsuits; the process of filing claims to courts
sixth amendment
Litigation
Ethics
uniform commercial code
30. Forseeable harm
element 4 of a negligence lawsuit
Substantial effect rule
expiration
After a bill enters the house of rep or senate - it goes where...
31. Race - ethincity and fundamental rights; Any government action that intentionally discriminates against racial or ethnic minorities or interferes with a fundamental right is presumed invalid.
Step three in filing a civil law suit
Strict scrutiny
trespass
actus reus
32. Aricle IV section 2 of the constitution that states that the constitution and the united States are the laws of the land. Federal government trumps state law
Tortious interference with a contract
Shire Reeves
Supremacy clause
Dicta
33. Business tort; intrusion in to someones private life; being a voyeur
Who regulates commercial speech
expiration
Appellant
intrusion
34. Consideration; the bargaining that leads to a deal
Dissenting Opinion
entrapment
regulation of interstate commerce
second requirement of a contract
35. The legal doctrine whereby an act is considered negligent because it violates a statute (or regulation)
Assumption of the risk
fifth amendment
Voir Dire
Negligence per se
36. Binding; an offeror cannot withdraw
Mail box rule
French social commentator and political thinker who created the Separation of Powers theory
Step one in filing a civil law suit
operation of law
37. Each side may ask the other side to produce relevant documents for inspection and copying.
Defamation
Takings clause
Request of production of documents and things
The last step of a bill in the House of representatives is...
38. Article I - Section 8
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39. A defendant breaches his duty of due care by failing to behave the way a reasonable person would under similar circumstances
element 3 of a negligence lawsuit
breach of duty
uniform commercial code
French social commentator and political thinker who created the Separation of Powers theory
40. Faking car accidents and injury in order to gain a settlement
For a bill to pass...
quasi contract
Insurance Fraud
Defamation
41. Life - Liberty - Property
express contract
element 1 of a negligence lawsuit
Procedural due process
John Locke
42. Allows the FBI to surveillance citizens with out a search warrant from a judge
Minimal scrutiny
Patriot Act
After a bill enters the house of rep or senate - it goes where...
intrusion
43. When a law remains untouched on the presidents desk for over 10 days after congress's adjournment
For a bill to pass...
counter offer
Request of production of documents and things
Pocket Veto
44. Baron Montesquieu
French social commentator and political thinker who created the Separation of Powers theory
Style of a Case
In the house of representatives - after a bill has left the first committee - it travels to...
Year when 'On the Laws and Customs of England' was written
45. The legal question that is posed in a case
Legal Issue Presented
Year when 'On the Laws and Customs of England' was written
The primary drafter of the constitution
false imprisonment
46. Injury
Fraud
element 5 of a negligence lawsuit
false imprisonment
RICO
47. Common law rule; acceptance must be made on the same terms as the offer
mirror image rule
attractive nuisance
fourth requirement of a contract
After a bill enters the house of rep or senate - it goes where...
48. Majority
The percentage vote to pass a bill
After a bill enters the house of rep or senate - it goes where...
Common Law
Res ipsa loquitor
49. Action - print and other expression. Broader than the spoken word
Pocket Veto
Separation of powers
conversion(2)
What Freedom of speech includes
50. Presiding officer (senator)
when a bill is introduced to the Sentate is must have...
What Freedom of speech includes
Significance of 'On the Laws and Customs of England'
Step three in filing a civil law suit