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Business Law Vocab - 2
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1. A court will imply by conduct that there was an agreement between two parties
implied contract
Filibuster
Writ of Certiorari
Current Chief Justice
2. Language added to a court's opinion that is beyond what is needed; extra words offered as guidance
Dissenting Opinion
Defamation
when a bill is introduced to the Sentate is must have...
Dicta
3. Guilty beyond a reasonable doubt
crime burden of proof
Citation
fifth amendment
Pleadings
4. Laws involving economic and social regulation; laws that regard economic or social status are presumed valid and corporations and people can be classified
Minimal scrutiny
Pleadings
Number of Justices in the Supreme Court?
Commercial Exploitation
5. Right to an attorney when facing a prison sentence
Dicta
sixth amendment
Separation of powers
Supremacy clause
6. Using two or more racketeering acts to accomplish any of the following goals: (1) investing or acquiring legitimate businesses with criminal money (2)maintaining or acquiring businesses through criminal activity
RICO
uniform commercial code
actus reus
Medicare fraud
7. Binding; an offeror cannot withdraw
Comparative Fault
Mail box rule
Fraud
Arbitration
8. If a company does not address an insubordinate employee - they become liable
negligent retention
Filibuster
Minimal scrutiny
Interrogatories
9. The legal doctrine whereby an act is considered negligent because it violates a statute (or regulation)
How much of a majority is it to override a presidents veto
The primary drafter of the constitution
Negligence per se
In the house of representatives - after a bill has left the first committee - it travels to...
10. Allows the FBI to surveillance citizens with out a search warrant from a judge
you cannot revoke an offer...
insanity
Patriot Act
mirror image rule
11. Type of business crime; the fraudulent conversion of property already in the defendants posession.
you cannot revoke an offer...
embezzlement
element 3 of a negligence lawsuit
Separation of powers
12. During the option period of a contract
French social commentator and political thinker who created the Separation of Powers theory
Defamation
you cannot revoke an offer...
false imprisonment
13. Trial Court
first requirement of a contract
For a bill to pass...
conversion(2)
Federal District Court
14. Judge made law; based on precedent - which leads to stare decisis
Common Law
Stare Decisis
actus reus
Henry DeBracton
15. Establishes the idea precendent
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16. Defamation - obscenity - speech that creates danger
Statute
assault
element 2 of a negligence lawsuit
What is not protected under the first amendment
17. To the president.
Where the bill goes after conference committee
express contract
Common Law
fourth requirement of a contract
18. Forbidding a law to be passed
Veto
Dissenting Opinion
eighth amendment
misdemeanor
19. For the defendant to be liable - the type of harm must have been reasonably forseeable.
Malice
forseeable harm
Collective Responsibility
assault
20. The floor/leadership - where it is debated upon with no time limit.
negligent hiring
first requirement of a contract
First African American Justice
In the senate - after the bill leave committee it travels to...
21. Three.
Request of production of documents and things
When a bill is introduced to the house of representatives it must have a...
Two types of dispute resolution
Number of judges on the panel in the Court of Appeals
22. Using false statements or bribes to obtain medicare payments from the federal or state government
Medicare fraud
After a bill enters the house of rep or senate - it goes where...
Stare Decisis
The job of the Rules Committee
23. A law passed by a legislative body
first requirement of a contract
Number of judges on the panel in the Court of Appeals
For a bill to pass...
Statute
24. The obligation to decide current cases based on previous rulings.
precedent
Ethics
Collective Responsibility
Statute
25. Talking trash
Defamation
Insurance Fraud
felony
fourth requirement of a contract
26. The documents that begin a lawsuit: consists of the complaint - answer and sometimes a reply
Pleadings
Year when 'On the Laws and Customs of England' was written
Request of production of documents and things
Procedural due process
27. An offered can be terminated anytime before the offer has been accepted.
Assumption of the risk
fourth requirement of a contract
Concurring Opinion
revocation
28. Harm caused by a deliberate action
mens rea
intentional tort
Mediation
Number of Justices in the Supreme Court?
29. Baron Montesquieu
Malice
Holding
third requirement of a contract
French social commentator and political thinker who created the Separation of Powers theory
30. No unreasonable searches or seizures
Fraud
fourth amendment
Current Chief Justice
sixth amendment
31. A violation of a duty imposed by a civil law.
second requirement of a contract
Physical and Mental examination
Minimal scrutiny
tort
32. 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
element 3 of a negligence lawsuit
Contributory Negligence
uniform commercial code
larceny
33. To the conference committee
After the bill is released from committees in the two houses - it goes...
The job of the Rules Committee
revocation
element 3 of a negligence lawsuit
34. Type of intent to be proved; means a guilty state of mind
How much of a majority is it to override a presidents veto
Interrogatories
mens rea
Common Law
35. The process of one party's lawyer to question the other party or a potential witness under oath.
Bystander's obligation means...
coercion
Depositions
first amendment
36. Type of intentional tort (and crime); injuring someone by deliberate deception
Fraud
Malice
Common Law
Litigation
37. First 10 amendments of the constitution; Compromise between federalist and antifederalists; Protects natural rights of liberty and property
Pocket Veto
Fraud
Year when 'On the Laws and Customs of England' was written
Bill of Right
38. It must be voted on and approved by both houses and then approved by the president. then it is a law
For a bill to pass...
Interrogatories
mens rea
Significance of 'On the Laws and Customs of England'
39. Type of intent to be proved; means the guilty act
Contributory Negligence
First African American Justice
Significance of 'On the Laws and Customs of England'
actus reus
40. The study of how people ought to act; does not always mean legal.
Rationale
Ethics
Conference committee
First African American Justice
41. Section of the fourteenth amendment where courts must provide equal protection to all cases based on scrutiny
Equal Protection Clause
Dissenting Opinion
Who regulates commercial speech
Comparative Fault
42. No state can deny citizens due process. (14th amendment) this incorporates states to be ruled under the constitution
Significance of 'On the Laws and Customs of England'
Physical and Mental examination
Incorporation clause
actus reus
43. When there is no contract - but the defendant makes a promise that will induce reliance. it would be unjust not to enforce the promise
Dicta
promissory estoppel
French social commentator and political thinker who created the Separation of Powers theory
The primary drafter of the constitution
44. Gender related; such laws must be substantially related to important government objectives. (gov't cant discriminate based on gender through the law making process)
misdemeanor
Intermediate scrutiny
Ethics
How Federal Law has jurisdiction in a lawsuit
45. Life - Liberty - Property
John Locke
Dissenting Opinion
Negligence and strict liability
Step one in filing a civil law suit
46. Discovery phase: chance for the party to learn about its opponent.
Step two in filing a civil law suit
Bill
second requirement of a contract
RICO
47. The defendant (defamer) knew the statement was false or acted with reckless disregard to the truth
Malice
Veto
In the house of representatives - after a bill has left the first committee - it travels to...
Citation
48. Cruel and unusual punishment
intentional tort
forseeable harm
eighth amendment
battery
49. A document filed by the losing party requesting the federal court to appeal a case.
Writ of Certiorari
conversion
Procedural due process
Current Chief Justice
50. Type of defense; the defendant is incapable of forming mens rea
Medicare fraud
Pleadings
insanity
Mail box rule