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Business Law Vocab - 2
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1. A plaintiff may generally recover even if he/she is partially negligible
Comparative Fault
Arbitration
Stare Decisis
Step three in filing a civil law suit
2. Freedom of speech.
Insurance Fraud
Fraud
first amendment
licensee
3. Malicious use of fire or explosives to damage or destroy real estate or property
Takings clause
Arson
Concurring Opinion
Veto
4. First 10 amendments of the constitution; Compromise between federalist and antifederalists; Protects natural rights of liberty and property
Bill of Right
Negligence
element 4 of a negligence lawsuit
Concurring Opinion
5. Discovery phase: chance for the party to learn about its opponent.
Pleadings
element 1 of a negligence lawsuit
Step two in filing a civil law suit
Negligence
6. Legality; the subject matter must be legal
Supremacy clause
Assumption of the risk
third requirement of a contract
Style of a Case
7. Cruel and unusual punishment
eighth amendment
Arson
Common Law
Where the bill goes after conference committee
8. Life - Liberty - Property
John Locke
mirror image rule
Writ of Certiorari
battery
9. Judges are obligated to follow precedent
Stare Decisis
expiration
Step three in filing a civil law suit
third requirement of a contract
10. Faking car accidents and injury in order to gain a settlement
Dicta
quasi contract
Insurance Fraud
Holding
11. Sponsor.
Mail Fraud
Wire Fraud
Assumption of the risk
When a bill is introduced to the house of representatives it must have a...
12. Article I - Section 8
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13. Thurgood Marshall
Rationale
First African American Justice
What is not protected under the first amendment
Intermediate scrutiny
14. Laws involving economic and social regulation; laws that regard economic or social status are presumed valid and corporations and people can be classified
Where the bill goes after conference committee
trespass
Negligence and strict liability
Minimal scrutiny
15. Presiding officer (senator)
Shire Reeves
attractive nuisance
Statute
when a bill is introduced to the Sentate is must have...
16. 1250
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17. Type of tort; taking someone elses property without consent.
conversion
Legal Issue Presented
Total circuits in the court of appeals
Bill of Right
18. 2/3 vote
element 5 of a negligence lawsuit
Style of a Case
Two types of dispute resolution
How much of a majority is it to override a presidents veto
19. Trial.
assault
Step four in filing a civil law suit
invitee
In the senate - after the bill leave committee it travels to...
20. Guilty beyond a reasonable doubt
Legal Issue Presented
agreement
When a bill is introduced to the house of representatives it must have a...
crime burden of proof
21. Type of defamation tort; spoken defamation
Henry DeBracton
Mediation
slander
Tortious interference with a contract
22. Sandra Day Oconnor
Tortious interference with a contract
quasi contract
In the house of representatives - after a bill has left the first committee - it travels to...
First Woman Justice
23. The sharing of powers between levels of government
Assumption of the risk
In a lawsuit attorneys have a burden of proof that shows liability by
Common Law
Federalism
24. An act of a senate member to delay the close of debate or force a decision to be made.
slander
Medicare fraud
Filibuster
Comparative Fault
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.
entrapment
coercion
Takings clause
element 1 of a negligence lawsuit
26. Termination when an offer specifies a time limit for acceptance and the period is binding.
Bystander's obligation means...
expiration
Physical and Mental examination
sixth amendment
27. The legal question that is posed in a case
Negligence
Legal Issue Presented
Interrogatories
Statute
28. There was a breach of due care
Mail Fraud
breach of duty
element 2 of a negligence lawsuit
negligent retention
29. Type of intent to be proved; means a guilty state of mind
Year when 'On the Laws and Customs of England' was written
mens rea
you cannot revoke an offer...
operation of law
30. Trial Court
Statute
actus reus
Mediation
Federal District Court
31. The rules committee where it is put on a calendar.
In the house of representatives - after a bill has left the first committee - it travels to...
First Woman Justice
Equal Protection Clause
What is not protected under the first amendment
32. Termination by simply turning down the offer
Ethics
How Federal Law has jurisdiction in a lawsuit
rejection
Minimal scrutiny
33. Language added to a court's opinion that is beyond what is needed; extra words offered as guidance
element 5 of a negligence lawsuit
Dicta
expiration
Insurance Fraud
34. Collected taxes and helped keep the peace in tenth century England. Equivalent to a modern day Sheriff.
Veto
Shire Reeves
When a bill is introduced to the house of representatives it must have a...
assault
35. Requires a meeting of the minds
agreement
breach of duty
actus reus
Where the bill goes after conference committee
36. FCC (Federal Communications Commission)
Common Law
Who regulates commercial speech
In the house of representatives - after a bill has left the first committee - it travels to...
Tortious interference with a contract
37. Business tort; intrusion in to someones private life; being a voyeur
fourth amendment
The last step of a bill in the House of representatives is...
Veto
intrusion
38. If the plaintiff is even slightly negligent he/she recovers nothing
element 1 of a negligence lawsuit
Defamation
Henry DeBracton
Contributory Negligence
39. No unreasonable searches or seizures
expiration
French social commentator and political thinker who created the Separation of Powers theory
Negligence per se
fourth amendment
40. Type of intentnional tort; intentionally entering land that belongs to someone else or remaining on land after being asked to leave
Step four in filing a civil law suit
What section of the Constitution grants congress it's powers?
trespass
crime burden of proof
41. (1)statement (2)falseness (3)communicated (4)injury
Appellant
Qualifications for defamation
assault
Writ of Certiorari
42. Type of defense; the defendant is incapable of forming mens rea
Arbitration
insanity
Legal Issue Presented
sixth amendment
43. Arbitration and Mediation
Two types of dispute resolution
when a bill is introduced to the Sentate is must have...
element 5 of a negligence lawsuit
felony
44. (1)misrepresentation (2)concealment with the intent to take advantage of someone; deception of a person for the purpose of obtaining money or property
Common Law
Bill of Right
Fraud
quasi contract
45. Business tort; defendant improperly breached contract and causes injury to plaintiff
regulation of interstate commerce
entrapment
Rationale
Tortious interference with a contract
46. Right to an attorney when facing a prison sentence
breach of duty
Negligence
sixth amendment
misdemeanor
47. A less serious crime often punishable by less than one year in prison
conversion
negligent retention
The last step of a bill in the House of representatives is...
misdemeanor
48. Three.
Common Law
Where the bill goes after conference committee
Number of judges on the panel in the Court of Appeals
Negligence and strict liability
49. A federal statute that applies to the sale of goods (NOT real estate or services)
Dicta
uniform commercial code
Where the bill goes after conference committee
Stare Decisis
50. To the conference committee
After the bill is released from committees in the two houses - it goes...
Commercial Exploitation
attractive nuisance
First Woman Justice