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Business Law Vocab - 2
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A party may ask the court to order an examination to find out if physical or mental damage is relevant
Strict scrutiny
Physical and Mental examination
Stare Decisis
Step three in filing a civil law suit
2. Complaint and summons are served to defendant; answer is provided within 30 days
element 3 of a negligence lawsuit
Step one in filing a civil law suit
Number of judges on the panel in the Court of Appeals
RICO
3. Three.
second requirement of a contract
slander
quasi contract
Number of judges on the panel in the Court of Appeals
4. Article I - Section 8
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5. Factual case
element 3 of a negligence lawsuit
Ethics
Takings clause
Medicare fraud
6. The sharing of powers between levels of government
Federalism
Arson
element 4 of a negligence lawsuit
Veto
7. Trial Court
eighth amendment
Federal District Court
first requirement of a contract
Mail box rule
8. Reasoning court gives for the holding
element 2 of a negligence lawsuit
Rationale
Bill of Right
second requirement of a contract
9. Forbidding a law to be passed
Veto
Two types of dispute resolution
Where the bill goes after conference committee
Arson
10. No self incrimination / due process (miranda warnings)
Writ of Certiorari
fifth amendment
element 1 of a negligence lawsuit
Mail Fraud
11. During the option period of a contract
you cannot revoke an offer...
fifth amendment
Conference committee
Bill
12. The legal doctrine whereby an act is considered negligent because it violates a statute (or regulation)
Negligence per se
lible
negligent hiring
Litigation
13. Consideration; the bargaining that leads to a deal
conversion(2)
second requirement of a contract
revocation
Interrogatories
14. Aricle IV section 2 of the constitution that states that the constitution and the united States are the laws of the land. Federal government trumps state law
Supremacy clause
fourth requirement of a contract
negligent retention
Bystander's obligation means...
15. Talking trash
For a bill to pass...
Intermediate scrutiny
Procedural due process
Defamation
16. Presiding officer (senator)
when a bill is introduced to the Sentate is must have...
Total circuits in the court of appeals
For a bill to pass...
rejection
17. For the defendant to be liable - the type of harm must have been reasonably forseeable.
forseeable harm
Mediation
What is not protected under the first amendment
In a lawsuit attorneys have a burden of proof that shows liability by
18. Gender related; such laws must be substantially related to important government objectives. (gov't cant discriminate based on gender through the law making process)
Malice
French social commentator and political thinker who created the Separation of Powers theory
Comparative Fault
Intermediate scrutiny
19. Judges are obligated to follow precedent
Stare Decisis
John Locke
forseeable harm
Request of production of documents and things
20. First 10 amendments of the constitution; Compromise between federalist and antifederalists; Protects natural rights of liberty and property
element 2 of a negligence lawsuit
Bill of Right
insanity
embezzlement
21. A violation of a duty imposed by a civil law.
tort
fifth amendment
first requirement of a contract
John Locke
22. The documents that begin a lawsuit: consists of the complaint - answer and sometimes a reply
Medicare fraud
Pleadings
you cannot revoke an offer...
Ethics
23. A defendant engaging in an ultrahazardous activity is virtually always liable for any harm that results
strict liability
promissory estoppel
Two types of dispute resolution
misdemeanor
24. Written questions that the opposing party must answer in writing under oath
Interrogatories
element 3 of a negligence lawsuit
forseeable harm
Medicare fraud
25. FCC (Federal Communications Commission)
In a lawsuit attorneys have a burden of proof that shows liability by
Who regulates commercial speech
Incorporation clause
Stare Decisis
26. Preponderance of the evidence
Bill of Right
In a lawsuit attorneys have a burden of proof that shows liability by
Legal Issue Presented
Federal District Court
27. The facts imply that the defendants negligence caused the act; 'the thing speaks for itself'
Procedural due process
Supremacy clause
Res ipsa loquitor
precedent
28. The study of how people ought to act; does not always mean legal.
Rationale
Ethics
Procedural due process
Physical and Mental examination
29. Bottom Line answer
Holding
assault
first requirement of a contract
fourth requirement of a contract
30. Using false statements or bribes to obtain medicare payments from the federal or state government
Administrative Law
Medicare fraud
Interrogatories
The primary drafter of the constitution
31. Attorneys ask jurors a set of questions to determine bias
Conference committee
embezzlement
Voir Dire
Total circuits in the court of appeals
32. Twelve.
What is not protected under the first amendment
eighth amendment
French social commentator and political thinker who created the Separation of Powers theory
Total circuits in the court of appeals
33. Laws involving economic and social regulation; laws that regard economic or social status are presumed valid and corporations and people can be classified
Common Law
What Freedom of speech includes
Minimal scrutiny
Step three in filing a civil law suit
34. Legality; the subject matter must be legal
Commercial Exploitation
Year when 'On the Laws and Customs of England' was written
crime burden of proof
third requirement of a contract
35. Type of defamation tort; written defamation
tort
lible
slander
insanity
36. Type of intentional tort; an act that makes a person fear imminent battery
assault
Federal District Court
fifth amendment
Filibuster
37. Type of business crime; the fraudulent conversion of property already in the defendants posession.
negligent retention
What section of the Constitution grants congress it's powers?
Appellant
embezzlement
38. Business tort; using someones likeness or voice without their permission.
First Woman Justice
Fraud
Commercial Exploitation
Minimal scrutiny
39. Punishable by a prison sentence of one year or more
regulation of interstate commerce
felony
battery
Qualifications for defamation
40. Sponsor.
When a bill is introduced to the house of representatives it must have a...
Patriot Act
negligent hiring
Henry DeBracton
41. Someone on the property by right of a public place. highest duty of due care is owed to avoid negligence
Appellant
false imprisonment
Legal Issue Presented
invitee
42. Proposed statutes - submitted to Congress or a legislature
Bill
Step two in filing a civil law suit
larceny
you cannot revoke an offer...
43. Items such as trampolines and swimming pools; defendant is liable if there is no protection
Henry DeBracton
mens rea
intrusion
attractive nuisance
44. A document filed by the losing party requesting the federal court to appeal a case.
embezzlement
Writ of Certiorari
Mediation
felony
45. Collected taxes and helped keep the peace in tenth century England. Equivalent to a modern day Sheriff.
letters of intent
element 1 of a negligence lawsuit
Shire Reeves
element 3 of a negligence lawsuit
46. Requires a meeting of the minds
To prove injury the defamation must show...
Shire Reeves
implied contract
agreement
47. Judge made law; based on precedent - which leads to stare decisis
Total circuits in the court of appeals
conversion(2)
coercion
Common Law
48. Defamation - obscenity - speech that creates danger
Common Law
when a bill is introduced to the Sentate is must have...
Henry DeBracton
What is not protected under the first amendment
49. Guilty beyond a reasonable doubt
Patriot Act
element 3 of a negligence lawsuit
crime burden of proof
uniform commercial code
50. Any scheme that attempts to unlawfully obtain money or services illegally through the US postal service
Ethics
Mail Fraud
fourth amendment
The job of the Rules Committee