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Business Law Vocab - 2
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1. Twelve.
Qualifications for defamation
eighth amendment
felony
Total circuits in the court of appeals
2. A plaintiff may generally recover even if he/she is partially negligible
Negligence and strict liability
insanity
Comparative Fault
Writ of Certiorari
3. Type of intentional tort (and crime); injuring someone by deliberate deception
After a bill enters the house of rep or senate - it goes where...
Fraud
First Woman Justice
Step one in filing a civil law suit
4. States who is suing who. Identifies parties.
Arson
Style of a Case
entrapment
Rationale
5. Using two or more racketeering acts to accomplish any of the following goals: (1) investing or acquiring legitimate businesses with criminal money (2)maintaining or acquiring businesses through criminal activity
RICO
The percentage vote to pass a bill
you cannot revoke an offer...
Dicta
6. The study of how people ought to act; does not always mean legal.
Number of judges on the panel in the Court of Appeals
Appellee
lible
Ethics
7. The floor/leadership - where it is debated upon with no time limit.
In the senate - after the bill leave committee it travels to...
The job of the Rules Committee
Mail box rule
Arbitration
8. Defamation - obscenity - speech that creates danger
What is not protected under the first amendment
insanity
entrapment
promissory estoppel
9. Sponsor.
slander
When a bill is introduced to the house of representatives it must have a...
Qualifications for defamation
Holding
10. For the defendant to be liable - the type of harm must have been reasonably forseeable.
Bill
forseeable harm
breach of duty
Year when 'On the Laws and Customs of England' was written
11. A defendant breaches his duty of due care by failing to behave the way a reasonable person would under similar circumstances
Request of production of documents and things
breach of duty
false imprisonment
Insurance Fraud
12. The sharing of powers between levels of government
second requirement of a contract
Request of production of documents and things
Federalism
licensee
13. Reference code; label for looking the case up
Citation
French social commentator and political thinker who created the Separation of Powers theory
precedent
Significance of 'On the Laws and Customs of England'
14. Type of intentional tort; the intentional restraint of another without reasonable cause
false imprisonment
Federalism
element 5 of a negligence lawsuit
Year when 'On the Laws and Customs of England' was written
15. Punishable by a prison sentence of one year or more
The last step of a bill in the House of representatives is...
felony
Request of production of documents and things
When a bill is introduced to the house of representatives it must have a...
16. Three.
Dissenting Opinion
Mediation
John Locke
Number of judges on the panel in the Court of Appeals
17. Discovery phase: chance for the party to learn about its opponent.
Step two in filing a civil law suit
First Woman Justice
How Federal Law has jurisdiction in a lawsuit
Assumption of the risk
18. Type of business crime; taking or using someones property
second requirement of a contract
agreement
conversion(2)
you cannot revoke an offer...
19. Type of tort; taking someone elses property without consent.
The job of the Rules Committee
conversion
conversion(2)
Year when 'On the Laws and Customs of England' was written
20. Business tort; intrusion in to someones private life; being a voyeur
Malice
Mediation
invitee
intrusion
21. Binding; an offeror cannot withdraw
Stare Decisis
Pocket Veto
Mail box rule
John Locke
22. Forbidding a law to be passed
Filibuster
Tortious interference with a contract
element 5 of a negligence lawsuit
Veto
23. 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
misdemeanor
Stare Decisis
embezzlement
Supremacy clause
24. A federal statute that applies to the sale of goods (NOT real estate or services)
Step three in filing a civil law suit
Common Law
uniform commercial code
Interrogatories
25. Action - print and other expression. Broader than the spoken word
John Locke
What Freedom of speech includes
battery
Substantial effect rule
26. The defendant (defamer) knew the statement was false or acted with reckless disregard to the truth
attractive nuisance
breach of duty
For a bill to pass...
Malice
27. Judge made law; based on precedent - which leads to stare decisis
Common Law
Equal Protection Clause
Assumption of the risk
For a bill to pass...
28. James Madison - 1789
Current Chief Justice
Holding
The primary drafter of the constitution
Fraud
29. The rules committee where it is put on a calendar.
intentional tort
intrusion
Administrative Law
In the house of representatives - after a bill has left the first committee - it travels to...
30. Common law rule; acceptance must be made on the same terms as the offer
To prove injury the defamation must show...
implied contract
Fraud
mirror image rule
31. Trial Court
strict liability
letters of intent
intentional tort
Federal District Court
32. A contract put in writing laying out all of the terms
After a bill enters the house of rep or senate - it goes where...
Statute
express contract
embezzlement
33. No state can deny citizens due process. (14th amendment) this incorporates states to be ruled under the constitution
Incorporation clause
Pleadings
To prove injury the defamation must show...
Appellee
34. (1)misrepresentation (2)concealment with the intent to take advantage of someone; deception of a person for the purpose of obtaining money or property
Interrogatories
What Freedom of speech includes
Tortious interference with a contract
Fraud
35. Aka imminent domain; government cant take a persons land unless they prove it will be used for a public purpose and provide proper compensation.
Pleadings
Common Law
Insurance Fraud
Takings clause
36. Due process or the right to a hearing
fifth amendment
What Freedom of speech includes
battery
lible
37. Guilty beyond a reasonable doubt
conversion
crime burden of proof
implied contract
Shire Reeves
38. An offered can be terminated anytime before the offer has been accepted.
Rationale
In a lawsuit attorneys have a burden of proof that shows liability by
Filibuster
revocation
39. Wrote 'On the Laws and Customs of England'
lible
entrapment
eighth amendment
Henry DeBracton
40. Each side may ask the other side to produce relevant documents for inspection and copying.
Request of production of documents and things
Insurance Fraud
First African American Justice
breach of duty
41. No unreasonable searches or seizures
fourth amendment
In the senate - after the bill leave committee it travels to...
trespass
Statute
42. They set time limits for debate - decide how fast the law should be deliberated and when the bill goes to the floor for debate.
Concurring Opinion
Commercial Exploitation
The job of the Rules Committee
Res ipsa loquitor
43. You have no duty to assist someone in peril unless you created the danger
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44. A person who is on your property with your permission; you owe them a higher duty of due care to warn of known dangers
Minimal scrutiny
Administrative Law
Separation of powers
licensee
45. Majority
mirror image rule
Commercial Exploitation
Comparative Fault
The percentage vote to pass a bill
46. A defendant engaging in an ultrahazardous activity is virtually always liable for any harm that results
strict liability
false imprisonment
element 2 of a negligence lawsuit
Dissenting Opinion
47. The documents that begin a lawsuit: consists of the complaint - answer and sometimes a reply
What Freedom of speech includes
Pleadings
Wire Fraud
Year when 'On the Laws and Customs of England' was written
48. Type of defamation tort; spoken defamation
In a lawsuit attorneys have a burden of proof that shows liability by
slander
Common Law
After the bill is released from committees in the two houses - it goes...
49. Faking car accidents and injury in order to gain a settlement
Tortious interference with a contract
Insurance Fraud
Step four in filing a civil law suit
mens rea
50. It must be voted on and approved by both houses and then approved by the president. then it is a law
For a bill to pass...
trespass
strict liability
Insurance Fraud