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Business Law Vocab - 2
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Judges are obligated to follow precedent
Assumption of the risk
Ethics
Stare Decisis
Collective Responsibility
2. Trial Court
Substantial effect rule
Federal District Court
actus reus
John Locke
3. Presiding officer (senator)
Filibuster
sixth amendment
assault
when a bill is introduced to the Sentate is must have...
4. Due process or the right to a hearing
Writ of Certiorari
Mediation
negligent retention
fifth amendment
5. Thurgood Marshall
element 4 of a negligence lawsuit
first requirement of a contract
First African American Justice
How Federal Law has jurisdiction in a lawsuit
6. Termination by simply turning down the offer
Equal Protection Clause
Mail Fraud
rejection
uniform commercial code
7. Action - print and other expression. Broader than the spoken word
regulation of interstate commerce
Mail box rule
What Freedom of speech includes
Supremacy clause
8. A violation of a duty imposed by a civil law.
Significance of 'On the Laws and Customs of England'
How much of a majority is it to override a presidents veto
tort
Dicta
9. Article I - Section 8
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10. Common law rule; acceptance must be made on the same terms as the offer
mirror image rule
For a bill to pass...
Number of Justices in the Supreme Court?
conversion
11. Guilty beyond a reasonable doubt
quasi contract
Concurring Opinion
crime burden of proof
What section of the Constitution grants congress it's powers?
12. If the plaintiff is even slightly negligent he/she recovers nothing
Administrative Law
Contributory Negligence
insanity
What section of the Constitution grants congress it's powers?
13. It must be voted on and approved by both houses and then approved by the president. then it is a law
Writ of Certiorari
Pocket Veto
First African American Justice
For a bill to pass...
14. Reference code; label for looking the case up
The primary drafter of the constitution
lible
Citation
Intermediate scrutiny
15. During the option period of a contract
Negligence per se
false imprisonment
Current Chief Justice
you cannot revoke an offer...
16. (1)statement (2)falseness (3)communicated (4)injury
The primary drafter of the constitution
operation of law
Qualifications for defamation
Dissenting Opinion
17. Three.
promissory estoppel
Number of judges on the panel in the Court of Appeals
negligent hiring
intentional tort
18. Arbitration and Mediation
After a bill enters the house of rep or senate - it goes where...
Two types of dispute resolution
How much of a majority is it to override a presidents veto
actus reus
19. An offered can be terminated anytime before the offer has been accepted.
fourth amendment
The job of the Rules Committee
implied contract
revocation
20. There is an established duty of due care
Where the bill goes after conference committee
attractive nuisance
element 1 of a negligence lawsuit
Pleadings
21. Baron Montesquieu
fifth amendment
First Woman Justice
French social commentator and political thinker who created the Separation of Powers theory
mirror image rule
22. Judge made law; based on precedent - which leads to stare decisis
Common Law
Arson
Contributory Negligence
uniform commercial code
23. Type of business crime; the fraudulent conversion of property already in the defendants posession.
embezzlement
felony
rejection
After a bill enters the house of rep or senate - it goes where...
24. A person who volluntarily enters a situation that has an obvious danger cannot complain is he/she is injured
Assumption of the risk
attractive nuisance
Negligence and strict liability
expiration
25. Business tort; intrusion in to someones private life; being a voyeur
misdemeanor
In the senate - after the bill leave committee it travels to...
intrusion
To prove injury the defamation must show...
26. The obligation to decide current cases based on previous rulings.
Total circuits in the court of appeals
precedent
What section of the Constitution grants congress it's powers?
sixth amendment
27. Fraud using electronic communications of any kind;
Tortious interference with a contract
Legal Issue Presented
Wire Fraud
strict liability
28. The introduction of a neutral third party in resolving a dispute; not a binding decision. Voluntary settlement.
Mediation
Step two in filing a civil law suit
Contributory Negligence
mirror image rule
29. Gender related; such laws must be substantially related to important government objectives. (gov't cant discriminate based on gender through the law making process)
fourth amendment
Negligence
Shire Reeves
Intermediate scrutiny
30. Type of intentnional tort; intentionally entering land that belongs to someone else or remaining on land after being asked to leave
element 2 of a negligence lawsuit
Step three in filing a civil law suit
Federal District Court
trespass
31. Refers to lawsuits; the process of filing claims to courts
fifth amendment
Fraud
Litigation
conversion(2)
32. The facts imply that the defendants negligence caused the act; 'the thing speaks for itself'
Two types of dispute resolution
letters of intent
The job of the Rules Committee
Res ipsa loquitor
33. Business tort; defendant improperly breached contract and causes injury to plaintiff
actus reus
regulation of interstate commerce
Tortious interference with a contract
When a bill is introduced to the house of representatives it must have a...
34. Each side may ask the other side to produce relevant documents for inspection and copying.
Request of production of documents and things
Fraud
fourth requirement of a contract
Concurring Opinion
35. Attorneys ask jurors a set of questions to determine bias
Who regulates commercial speech
Two types of dispute resolution
Voir Dire
Henry DeBracton
36. A letter that summarizes the negotiating progress
To prove injury the defamation must show...
regulation of interstate commerce
agreement
letters of intent
37. Procedures for academic dismissal or dismissal from a government job
intrusion
Rationale
Procedural due process
operation of law
38. The sharing of powers between levels of government
Mail Fraud
Contributory Negligence
invitee
Federalism
39. States who is suing who. Identifies parties.
Pleadings
The job of the Rules Committee
Style of a Case
mirror image rule
40. Twelve.
Significance of 'On the Laws and Customs of England'
Tortious interference with a contract
Strict scrutiny
Total circuits in the court of appeals
41. A federal statute that applies to the sale of goods (NOT real estate or services)
Administrative Law
uniform commercial code
Strict scrutiny
element 2 of a negligence lawsuit
42. The study of how people ought to act; does not always mean legal.
Ethics
Interrogatories
battery
Separation of powers
43. Injury
Defamation
assault
Substantial effect rule
element 5 of a negligence lawsuit
44. Factual case
Number of Justices in the Supreme Court?
element 3 of a negligence lawsuit
The last step of a bill in the House of representatives is...
element 1 of a negligence lawsuit
45. For the defendant to be liable - the type of harm must have been reasonably forseeable.
Takings clause
Year when 'On the Laws and Customs of England' was written
element 5 of a negligence lawsuit
forseeable harm
46. Forbidding a law to be passed
Arson
Veto
mirror image rule
Appellee
47. A document filed by the losing party requesting the federal court to appeal a case.
regulation of interstate commerce
Writ of Certiorari
Contributory Negligence
conversion(2)
48. The floor/leadership - where it is debated upon with no time limit.
Veto
attractive nuisance
In the senate - after the bill leave committee it travels to...
insanity
49. To the conference committee
attractive nuisance
Writ of Certiorari
After the bill is released from committees in the two houses - it goes...
Veto
50. The process of one party's lawyer to question the other party or a potential witness under oath.
regulation of interstate commerce
Depositions
The percentage vote to pass a bill
Year when 'On the Laws and Customs of England' was written