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Business Law Vocab - 2
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Termination when the offeror dies or the physical contract is destroyed
Mediation
Litigation
Depositions
operation of law
2. System of checks and balances within the federal government
strict liability
What section of the Constitution grants congress it's powers?
first requirement of a contract
Separation of powers
3. Forseeable harm
fifth amendment
element 4 of a negligence lawsuit
Statute
Veto
4. Items such as trampolines and swimming pools; defendant is liable if there is no protection
lible
counter offer
In the house of representatives - after a bill has left the first committee - it travels to...
attractive nuisance
5. A subtype of rejection
Interrogatories
embezzlement
Collective Responsibility
counter offer
6. The introduction of a neutral third party in resolving a dispute; not a binding decision. Voluntary settlement.
Mediation
Mail Fraud
Henry DeBracton
implied contract
7. A document filed by the losing party requesting the federal court to appeal a case.
French social commentator and political thinker who created the Separation of Powers theory
agreement
Writ of Certiorari
breach of duty
8. Three.
After the bill is released from committees in the two houses - it goes...
Number of judges on the panel in the Court of Appeals
embezzlement
The last step of a bill in the House of representatives is...
9. Type of defense; the defendant is incapable of forming mens rea
trespass
Procedural due process
insanity
Arson
10. Judge made law
Statute
Common Law
Bill of Right
Henry DeBracton
11. Proposed statutes - submitted to Congress or a legislature
To prove injury the defamation must show...
Citation
actus reus
Bill
12. (1)statement (2)falseness (3)communicated (4)injury
Wire Fraud
Qualifications for defamation
Two types of dispute resolution
fifth amendment
13. Pretrial motions; motions for a summary judgement; asks the court to resolve a lawsuit before it goes to trial
Step three in filing a civil law suit
counter offer
How Federal Law has jurisdiction in a lawsuit
Commercial Exploitation
14. A person who volluntarily enters a situation that has an obvious danger cannot complain is he/she is injured
In the senate - after the bill leave committee it travels to...
Assumption of the risk
Conference committee
After a bill enters the house of rep or senate - it goes where...
15. Type of business crime; taking or using someones property
Physical and Mental examination
Minimal scrutiny
Mail box rule
conversion(2)
16. During the option period of a contract
What is not protected under the first amendment
you cannot revoke an offer...
mirror image rule
fourth amendment
17. The party opposing the appeal
To prove injury the defamation must show...
fifth amendment
Litigation
Appellee
18. Type of intentional tort; the intentional restraint of another without reasonable cause
false imprisonment
Patriot Act
In the house of representatives - after a bill has left the first committee - it travels to...
expiration
19. To the president.
Number of Justices in the Supreme Court?
Where the bill goes after conference committee
Medicare fraud
assault
20. Capacity; the parties must be adults and mentally competent
fourth requirement of a contract
Current Chief Justice
letters of intent
Strict scrutiny
21. You have no duty to assist someone in peril unless you created the danger
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22. Language added to a court's opinion that is beyond what is needed; extra words offered as guidance
Bill of Right
you cannot revoke an offer...
Statute
Dicta
23. Attorneys ask jurors a set of questions to determine bias
element 5 of a negligence lawsuit
Insurance Fraud
Defamation
Voir Dire
24. Injuries caused by neglect and oversight rather than deliberate conduct.
element 5 of a negligence lawsuit
Negligence and strict liability
eighth amendment
element 2 of a negligence lawsuit
25. No self incrimination / due process (miranda warnings)
Dicta
mirror image rule
Total circuits in the court of appeals
fifth amendment
26. The floor/leadership - where it is debated upon with no time limit.
Step four in filing a civil law suit
attractive nuisance
In the senate - after the bill leave committee it travels to...
Mail box rule
27. Baron Montesquieu
Takings clause
Legal Issue Presented
French social commentator and political thinker who created the Separation of Powers theory
crime burden of proof
28. Type of defamation tort; spoken defamation
tort
RICO
Arson
slander
29. Section of the fourteenth amendment where courts must provide equal protection to all cases based on scrutiny
Equal Protection Clause
first requirement of a contract
Current Chief Justice
Step one in filing a civil law suit
30. They set time limits for debate - decide how fast the law should be deliberated and when the bill goes to the floor for debate.
Request of production of documents and things
mens rea
Filibuster
The job of the Rules Committee
31. Type of intentnional tort; intentionally entering land that belongs to someone else or remaining on land after being asked to leave
In the senate - after the bill leave committee it travels to...
trespass
agreement
misdemeanor
32. The legal doctrine whereby an act is considered negligent because it violates a statute (or regulation)
negligent retention
Negligence per se
eighth amendment
Statute
33. Type of defense; when the government induces the defendant to break the law.
eighth amendment
Assumption of the risk
entrapment
Legal Issue Presented
34. A court will imply by conduct that there was an agreement between two parties
implied contract
Defamation
trespass
Where the bill goes after conference committee
35. Talking trash
breach of duty
Substantial effect rule
Defamation
Administrative Law
36. Using false statements or bribes to obtain medicare payments from the federal or state government
rejection
Rationale
Pocket Veto
Medicare fraud
37. No unreasonable searches or seizures
when a bill is introduced to the Sentate is must have...
letters of intent
fourth amendment
Bill
38. Sandra Day Oconnor
actus reus
First Woman Justice
After a bill enters the house of rep or senate - it goes where...
What Freedom of speech includes
39. Written questions that the opposing party must answer in writing under oath
Who regulates commercial speech
eighth amendment
Interrogatories
fifth amendment
40. Faking car accidents and injury in order to gain a settlement
Insurance Fraud
element 5 of a negligence lawsuit
After a bill enters the house of rep or senate - it goes where...
implied contract
41. For the defendant to be liable - the type of harm must have been reasonably forseeable.
promissory estoppel
forseeable harm
After the bill is released from committees in the two houses - it goes...
Common Law
42. Unintentional tort - breach of a duty of care
uniform commercial code
Voir Dire
you cannot revoke an offer...
Negligence
43. Malicious use of fire or explosives to damage or destroy real estate or property
Arson
Mail box rule
Dicta
conversion
44. A law passed by a legislative body
Statute
The job of the Rules Committee
fifth amendment
assault
45. The introduction of a neutral third party in resolving a dispute; issues a binding decision.
mirror image rule
slander
regulation of interstate commerce
Arbitration
46. Trial.
Step four in filing a civil law suit
Step three in filing a civil law suit
Bill of Right
Appellee
47. Complaint and summons are served to defendant; answer is provided within 30 days
conversion(2)
Step one in filing a civil law suit
regulation of interstate commerce
Holding
48. A letter that summarizes the negotiating progress
letters of intent
Fraud
crime burden of proof
licensee
49. Someone on the property by right of a public place. highest duty of due care is owed to avoid negligence
invitee
Litigation
promissory estoppel
Insurance Fraud
50. The study of how people ought to act; does not always mean legal.
Ethics
Strict scrutiny
regulation of interstate commerce
Collective Responsibility