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Business Law Vocab - 2
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Business tort; using someones likeness or voice without their permission.
fifth amendment
Who regulates commercial speech
Separation of powers
Commercial Exploitation
2. The process of one party's lawyer to question the other party or a potential witness under oath.
Depositions
Separation of powers
Comparative Fault
Ethics
3. A letter that summarizes the negotiating progress
Federalism
Number of judges on the panel in the Court of Appeals
element 5 of a negligence lawsuit
letters of intent
4. Injury
The last step of a bill in the House of representatives is...
Medicare fraud
element 5 of a negligence lawsuit
slander
5. The sharing of powers between levels of government
What is not protected under the first amendment
Strict scrutiny
Federalism
Negligence
6. You have no duty to assist someone in peril unless you created the danger
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7. Type of business crime; the trespassing taking of personal property with intent to steal it. defendant never had the right to have said property in posession
coercion
larceny
when a bill is introduced to the Sentate is must have...
Interrogatories
8. Life - Liberty - Property
element 4 of a negligence lawsuit
How Federal Law has jurisdiction in a lawsuit
John Locke
What Freedom of speech includes
9. Right to an attorney when facing a prison sentence
lible
Res ipsa loquitor
sixth amendment
Separation of powers
10. Unintentional tort - breach of a duty of care
For a bill to pass...
Negligence
Insurance Fraud
coercion
11. Defamation - obscenity - speech that creates danger
sixth amendment
After the bill is released from committees in the two houses - it goes...
What is not protected under the first amendment
The last step of a bill in the House of representatives is...
12. Attorneys ask jurors a set of questions to determine bias
Henry DeBracton
First Woman Justice
negligent retention
Voir Dire
13. Punishable by a prison sentence of one year or more
felony
Two types of dispute resolution
Step two in filing a civil law suit
Bill of Right
14. Type of defamation tort; spoken defamation
Contributory Negligence
operation of law
Res ipsa loquitor
slander
15. Section of the fourteenth amendment where courts must provide equal protection to all cases based on scrutiny
First African American Justice
intrusion
Holding
Equal Protection Clause
16. If the plaintiff is even slightly negligent he/she recovers nothing
Negligence per se
false imprisonment
After the bill is released from committees in the two houses - it goes...
Contributory Negligence
17. The study of how people ought to act; does not always mean legal.
slander
In a lawsuit attorneys have a burden of proof that shows liability by
Ethics
Significance of 'On the Laws and Customs of England'
18. Agreement (offer and acceptance)
Two types of dispute resolution
first requirement of a contract
forseeable harm
Contributory Negligence
19. Proposed statutes - submitted to Congress or a legislature
misdemeanor
Common Law
entrapment
Bill
20. A violation of a duty imposed by a civil law.
Medicare fraud
Defamation
Mail box rule
tort
21. A defendant breaches his duty of due care by failing to behave the way a reasonable person would under similar circumstances
Substantial effect rule
Filibuster
first requirement of a contract
breach of duty
22. Arbitration and Mediation
Two types of dispute resolution
element 4 of a negligence lawsuit
strict liability
Step three in filing a civil law suit
23. Termination by simply turning down the offer
Arson
Malice
rejection
Insurance Fraud
24. Each side may ask the other side to produce relevant documents for inspection and copying.
In a lawsuit attorneys have a burden of proof that shows liability by
Bystander's obligation means...
Request of production of documents and things
Negligence
25. 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.
Negligence per se
Physical and Mental examination
Conference committee
attractive nuisance
26. FCC (Federal Communications Commission)
assault
French social commentator and political thinker who created the Separation of Powers theory
Who regulates commercial speech
Pocket Veto
27. Type of intentional tort; the intentional restraint of another without reasonable cause
false imprisonment
fourth amendment
Who regulates commercial speech
when a bill is introduced to the Sentate is must have...
28. Law made by federal agencies; rules and regulations
Administrative Law
After a bill enters the house of rep or senate - it goes where...
Wire Fraud
Dissenting Opinion
29. Judges who disagree with the majority holding; states their opposing opinion
fourth requirement of a contract
promissory estoppel
Dissenting Opinion
battery
30. A tithing of 10 men put together to hold each other accountable. Anglo-saxon method of keeping the peace.
Supremacy clause
French social commentator and political thinker who created the Separation of Powers theory
element 4 of a negligence lawsuit
Collective Responsibility
31. Procedures for academic dismissal or dismissal from a government job
Commercial Exploitation
Writ of Certiorari
Procedural due process
fifth amendment
32. Cruel and unusual punishment
Bill of Right
eighth amendment
fifth amendment
expiration
33. When the bill is debated to the floor of the house.
Tortious interference with a contract
Minimal scrutiny
slander
The last step of a bill in the House of representatives is...
34. System of checks and balances within the federal government
Separation of powers
Total circuits in the court of appeals
mirror image rule
rejection
35. Establishes the idea precendent
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36. When a law remains untouched on the presidents desk for over 10 days after congress's adjournment
Fraud
Depositions
Pocket Veto
agreement
37. A person who volluntarily enters a situation that has an obvious danger cannot complain is he/she is injured
Assumption of the risk
first amendment
Interrogatories
element 1 of a negligence lawsuit
38. The opinion of Judges who agree with the holding - but for different reasons.
Bill of Right
What section of the Constitution grants congress it's powers?
Concurring Opinion
assault
39. Written questions that the opposing party must answer in writing under oath
assault
Interrogatories
element 3 of a negligence lawsuit
Total circuits in the court of appeals
40. A plaintiff may generally recover even if he/she is partially negligible
Comparative Fault
eighth amendment
insanity
operation of law
41. Termination when an offer specifies a time limit for acceptance and the period is binding.
Defamation
expiration
Substantial effect rule
Where the bill goes after conference committee
42. States who is suing who. Identifies parties.
Commercial Exploitation
Style of a Case
Significance of 'On the Laws and Customs of England'
Separation of powers
43. Allows the FBI to surveillance citizens with out a search warrant from a judge
Insurance Fraud
What is not protected under the first amendment
felony
Patriot Act
44. A less serious crime often punishable by less than one year in prison
misdemeanor
The percentage vote to pass a bill
quasi contract
Stare Decisis
45. A person who is on your property with your permission; you owe them a higher duty of due care to warn of known dangers
Defamation
Significance of 'On the Laws and Customs of England'
Interrogatories
licensee
46. A subtype of rejection
counter offer
Wire Fraud
Commercial Exploitation
Depositions
47. Common law rule; acceptance must be made on the same terms as the offer
Dicta
Common Law
Patriot Act
mirror image rule
48. Judge made law; based on precedent - which leads to stare decisis
mirror image rule
negligent hiring
Common Law
intentional tort
49. The party filing the appeal
Appellant
Pleadings
Holding
Citation
50. A law passed by a legislative body
element 5 of a negligence lawsuit
Medicare fraud
Collective Responsibility
Statute