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Business Law Vocab - 2
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1. Business tort; using someones likeness or voice without their permission.
Commercial Exploitation
fifth amendment
Two types of dispute resolution
forseeable harm
2. Type of intentional tort (and crime); injuring someone by deliberate deception
actus reus
Step two in filing a civil law suit
Fraud
Number of Justices in the Supreme Court?
3. Collected taxes and helped keep the peace in tenth century England. Equivalent to a modern day Sheriff.
Statute
Significance of 'On the Laws and Customs of England'
Shire Reeves
Negligence
4. Unintentional tort - breach of a duty of care
Negligence
RICO
First African American Justice
Commercial Exploitation
5. FCC (Federal Communications Commission)
Who regulates commercial speech
Dissenting Opinion
Arbitration
Bill of Right
6. A violation of a duty imposed by a civil law.
In the senate - after the bill leave committee it travels to...
John Locke
Litigation
tort
7. They set time limits for debate - decide how fast the law should be deliberated and when the bill goes to the floor for debate.
The job of the Rules Committee
intentional tort
The last step of a bill in the House of representatives is...
Medicare fraud
8. Injury
What is not protected under the first amendment
tort
element 5 of a negligence lawsuit
John Locke
9. (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
sixth amendment
John Locke
Contributory Negligence
10. States who is suing who. Identifies parties.
embezzlement
rejection
Style of a Case
invitee
11. No self incrimination / due process (miranda warnings)
Mail box rule
Voir Dire
Qualifications for defamation
fifth amendment
12. Wrote 'On the Laws and Customs of England'
Intermediate scrutiny
Henry DeBracton
Collective Responsibility
Total circuits in the court of appeals
13. Proposed statutes - submitted to Congress or a legislature
Malice
Bill
Equal Protection Clause
coercion
14. The study of how people ought to act; does not always mean legal.
Bill
revocation
entrapment
Ethics
15. Freedom of speech.
How Federal Law has jurisdiction in a lawsuit
RICO
Negligence per se
first amendment
16. A company becomes liable if they do not perform a background check
negligent hiring
Shire Reeves
Writ of Certiorari
tort
17. Discovery phase: chance for the party to learn about its opponent.
Step two in filing a civil law suit
Bystander's obligation means...
Separation of powers
Dicta
18. There was a breach of due care
assault
Medicare fraud
invitee
element 2 of a negligence lawsuit
19. Agreement (offer and acceptance)
actus reus
first requirement of a contract
Incorporation clause
negligent retention
20. A less serious crime often punishable by less than one year in prison
For a bill to pass...
Federal District Court
Commercial Exploitation
misdemeanor
21. A person who is on your property with your permission; you owe them a higher duty of due care to warn of known dangers
intentional tort
Current Chief Justice
larceny
licensee
22. A plaintiff may generally recover even if he/she is partially negligible
element 5 of a negligence lawsuit
For a bill to pass...
Negligence
Comparative Fault
23. Each side may ask the other side to produce relevant documents for inspection and copying.
fourth amendment
Arbitration
Request of production of documents and things
element 5 of a negligence lawsuit
24. If the proceedings of a business occur intrastate but will eventually effect proceedings interstate - this rule states that congress may interfere
Substantial effect rule
Physical and Mental examination
Interrogatories
assault
25. The introduction of a neutral third party in resolving a dispute; not a binding decision. Voluntary settlement.
Pocket Veto
Shire Reeves
Mediation
Substantial effect rule
26. A law passed by a legislative body
Statute
expiration
First Woman Justice
Assumption of the risk
27. The rules committee where it is put on a calendar.
Takings clause
Fraud
Rationale
In the house of representatives - after a bill has left the first committee - it travels to...
28. A document filed by the losing party requesting the federal court to appeal a case.
Writ of Certiorari
Shire Reeves
mens rea
Step two in filing a civil law suit
29. Allows the FBI to surveillance citizens with out a search warrant from a judge
Assumption of the risk
fifth amendment
Patriot Act
element 1 of a negligence lawsuit
30. When there is no contract - but the defendant makes a promise that will induce reliance. it would be unjust not to enforce the promise
false imprisonment
Year when 'On the Laws and Customs of England' was written
promissory estoppel
conversion
31. Type of defamation tort; spoken defamation
slander
false imprisonment
Who regulates commercial speech
Citation
32. The sharing of powers between levels of government
Insurance Fraud
The job of the Rules Committee
Federalism
express contract
33. John Roberts
Current Chief Justice
Henry DeBracton
Physical and Mental examination
first requirement of a contract
34. Business tort; intrusion in to someones private life; being a voyeur
Appellant
first requirement of a contract
How Federal Law has jurisdiction in a lawsuit
intrusion
35. Pretrial motions; motions for a summary judgement; asks the court to resolve a lawsuit before it goes to trial
Step three in filing a civil law suit
Statute
sixth amendment
Bill
36. The party opposing the appeal
Appellee
Insurance Fraud
Where the bill goes after conference committee
Intermediate scrutiny
37. Consideration; the bargaining that leads to a deal
Legal Issue Presented
Federal District Court
Two types of dispute resolution
second requirement of a contract
38. Life - Liberty - Property
rejection
Depositions
John Locke
Henry DeBracton
39. Arbitration and Mediation
Citation
What Freedom of speech includes
Common Law
Two types of dispute resolution
40. You have no duty to assist someone in peril unless you created the danger
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41. The process of one party's lawyer to question the other party or a potential witness under oath.
element 4 of a negligence lawsuit
Contributory Negligence
Pleadings
Depositions
42. Factual case
Filibuster
element 3 of a negligence lawsuit
Mail box rule
Style of a Case
43. Twelve.
Bill
expiration
Supremacy clause
Total circuits in the court of appeals
44. Trial.
element 5 of a negligence lawsuit
fifth amendment
Step four in filing a civil law suit
intrusion
45. Consists of two members of the House of Representatives and two members of the senate; they try to compromise between two edited versions of a bill to make it equal.
Medicare fraud
Conference committee
fifth amendment
Malice
46. Forbidding a law to be passed
What is not protected under the first amendment
Veto
Physical and Mental examination
Pocket Veto
47. Majority
Pocket Veto
Tortious interference with a contract
Incorporation clause
The percentage vote to pass a bill
48. Fraud using electronic communications of any kind;
Wire Fraud
intentional tort
Interrogatories
Dicta
49. If the plaintiff is even slightly negligent he/she recovers nothing
invitee
Contributory Negligence
Negligence per se
entrapment
50. Type of defamation tort; written defamation
you cannot revoke an offer...
lible
uniform commercial code
intentional tort