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Business Law Vocab - 2
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Judge made law
embezzlement
Common Law
coercion
revocation
2. Factual case
Total circuits in the court of appeals
Takings clause
Rationale
element 3 of a negligence lawsuit
3. A defendant breaches his duty of due care by failing to behave the way a reasonable person would under similar circumstances
The last step of a bill in the House of representatives is...
Collective Responsibility
Tortious interference with a contract
breach of duty
4. A court will imply by conduct that there was an agreement between two parties
strict liability
Step two in filing a civil law suit
insanity
implied contract
5. Discovery phase: chance for the party to learn about its opponent.
Step two in filing a civil law suit
Supremacy clause
Physical and Mental examination
element 1 of a negligence lawsuit
6. Allows the FBI to surveillance citizens with out a search warrant from a judge
lible
battery
French social commentator and political thinker who created the Separation of Powers theory
Patriot Act
7. Type of business crime; the fraudulent conversion of property already in the defendants posession.
The last step of a bill in the House of representatives is...
embezzlement
Conference committee
element 3 of a negligence lawsuit
8. Termination when the offeror dies or the physical contract is destroyed
operation of law
mirror image rule
when a bill is introduced to the Sentate is must have...
Res ipsa loquitor
9. The study of how people ought to act; does not always mean legal.
Ethics
Litigation
Fraud
when a bill is introduced to the Sentate is must have...
10. 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
How Federal Law has jurisdiction in a lawsuit
strict liability
Filibuster
operation of law
11. Trial Court
trespass
Federal District Court
Ethics
The percentage vote to pass a bill
12. The introduction of a neutral third party in resolving a dispute; not a binding decision. Voluntary settlement.
To prove injury the defamation must show...
Mediation
element 4 of a negligence lawsuit
Step two in filing a civil law suit
13. Twelve.
Total circuits in the court of appeals
Voir Dire
false imprisonment
rejection
14. Section of the fourteenth amendment where courts must provide equal protection to all cases based on scrutiny
Equal Protection Clause
Comparative Fault
Supremacy clause
Mail box rule
15. No unreasonable searches or seizures
Equal Protection Clause
false imprisonment
fourth amendment
Fraud
16. A party may ask the court to order an examination to find out if physical or mental damage is relevant
breach of duty
Physical and Mental examination
Comparative Fault
misdemeanor
17. (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
breach of duty
The last step of a bill in the House of representatives is...
Bystander's obligation means...
18. The documents that begin a lawsuit: consists of the complaint - answer and sometimes a reply
Pleadings
Patriot Act
sixth amendment
Common Law
19. The introduction of a neutral third party in resolving a dispute; issues a binding decision.
How much of a majority is it to override a presidents veto
Contributory Negligence
Arbitration
when a bill is introduced to the Sentate is must have...
20. Cruel and unusual punishment
Physical and Mental examination
eighth amendment
Comparative Fault
Veto
21. Termination when an offer specifies a time limit for acceptance and the period is binding.
Arson
Shire Reeves
Ethics
expiration
22. During the option period of a contract
Res ipsa loquitor
The last step of a bill in the House of representatives is...
Request of production of documents and things
you cannot revoke an offer...
23. 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.
Mediation
Step two in filing a civil law suit
Strict scrutiny
eighth amendment
24. Unintentional tort - breach of a duty of care
Negligence
Malice
Fraud
What section of the Constitution grants congress it's powers?
25. Collected taxes and helped keep the peace in tenth century England. Equivalent to a modern day Sheriff.
Where the bill goes after conference committee
second requirement of a contract
regulation of interstate commerce
Shire Reeves
26. To a committee to be studied; and then debated and voted upon; this is where new amendments can be added.
After a bill enters the house of rep or senate - it goes where...
fourth requirement of a contract
Strict scrutiny
What section of the Constitution grants congress it's powers?
27. A subtype of rejection
tort
counter offer
For a bill to pass...
How Federal Law has jurisdiction in a lawsuit
28. Common law rule; acceptance must be made on the same terms as the offer
mirror image rule
Fraud
attractive nuisance
Comparative Fault
29. Forbidding a law to be passed
counter offer
Veto
invitee
In the senate - after the bill leave committee it travels to...
30. Type of defense; when the government induces the defendant to break the law.
trespass
fourth requirement of a contract
larceny
entrapment
31. Written questions that the opposing party must answer in writing under oath
Interrogatories
uniform commercial code
quasi contract
assault
32. Punishable by a prison sentence of one year or more
Bill
Common Law
first amendment
felony
33. Laws involving economic and social regulation; laws that regard economic or social status are presumed valid and corporations and people can be classified
Defamation
lible
felony
Minimal scrutiny
34. Three.
Number of judges on the panel in the Court of Appeals
Rationale
Who regulates commercial speech
Contributory Negligence
35. 1250
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36. No self incrimination / due process (miranda warnings)
breach of duty
Significance of 'On the Laws and Customs of England'
fifth amendment
Insurance Fraud
37. When a law remains untouched on the presidents desk for over 10 days after congress's adjournment
Qualifications for defamation
Rationale
Pocket Veto
Shire Reeves
38. There was a breach of due care
Number of judges on the panel in the Court of Appeals
Mediation
The percentage vote to pass a bill
element 2 of a negligence lawsuit
39. No state can deny citizens due process. (14th amendment) this incorporates states to be ruled under the constitution
intrusion
Incorporation clause
false imprisonment
Arson
40. Freedom of speech.
Common Law
first amendment
Negligence per se
What section of the Constitution grants congress it's powers?
41. Malicious use of fire or explosives to damage or destroy real estate or property
Step two in filing a civil law suit
Arson
Negligence and strict liability
forseeable harm
42. Procedures for academic dismissal or dismissal from a government job
breach of duty
Procedural due process
Intermediate scrutiny
larceny
43. There is no intention to a contract but the plaintiff gives some benefit to the defendant who knows the plaintiff expects compensation. it would be unjust not to award the damages.
quasi contract
Separation of powers
felony
Number of judges on the panel in the Court of Appeals
44. Type of intentnional tort; intentionally entering land that belongs to someone else or remaining on land after being asked to leave
conversion
when a bill is introduced to the Sentate is must have...
first requirement of a contract
trespass
45. A person who volluntarily enters a situation that has an obvious danger cannot complain is he/she is injured
negligent hiring
Assumption of the risk
first amendment
Physical and Mental examination
46. Using false statements or bribes to obtain medicare payments from the federal or state government
In the house of representatives - after a bill has left the first committee - it travels to...
Writ of Certiorari
Incorporation clause
Medicare fraud
47. Aka imminent domain; government cant take a persons land unless they prove it will be used for a public purpose and provide proper compensation.
trespass
Substantial effect rule
Step two in filing a civil law suit
Takings clause
48. If the plaintiff is even slightly negligent he/she recovers nothing
tort
Intermediate scrutiny
Dissenting Opinion
Contributory Negligence
49. Requires a meeting of the minds
agreement
mens rea
After the bill is released from committees in the two houses - it goes...
Depositions
50. Type of tort; taking someone elses property without consent.
coercion
Two types of dispute resolution
conversion
Citation