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Business Law Vocab - 2
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. United States is a party; the case is about a federal statute; the suit is between citizens of two different states and the the amt is over 75 -000
How Federal Law has jurisdiction in a lawsuit
Legal Issue Presented
Litigation
assault
2. Judge made law
Malice
Arson
express contract
Common Law
3. 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
Holding
RICO
operation of law
fourth amendment
4. (1)misrepresentation (2)concealment with the intent to take advantage of someone; deception of a person for the purpose of obtaining money or property
Appellee
When a bill is introduced to the house of representatives it must have a...
Fraud
larceny
5. Attorneys ask jurors a set of questions to determine bias
Interrogatories
In the senate - after the bill leave committee it travels to...
Voir Dire
Federal District Court
6. There was a breach of due care
After the bill is released from committees in the two houses - it goes...
element 2 of a negligence lawsuit
Depositions
you cannot revoke an offer...
7. Type of defense; the defendant is incapable of forming mens rea
insanity
embezzlement
coercion
Who regulates commercial speech
8. The facts imply that the defendants negligence caused the act; 'the thing speaks for itself'
Bill
Interrogatories
Res ipsa loquitor
Bill of Right
9. A defendant breaches his duty of due care by failing to behave the way a reasonable person would under similar circumstances
First African American Justice
lible
breach of duty
Pleadings
10. Written questions that the opposing party must answer in writing under oath
Bill of Right
Contributory Negligence
Interrogatories
John Locke
11. A person who is on your property with your permission; you owe them a higher duty of due care to warn of known dangers
The primary drafter of the constitution
Qualifications for defamation
Negligence per se
licensee
12. Allows the FBI to surveillance citizens with out a search warrant from a judge
entrapment
Holding
Collective Responsibility
Patriot Act
13. Type of intentnional tort; intentionally entering land that belongs to someone else or remaining on land after being asked to leave
RICO
crime burden of proof
The job of the Rules Committee
trespass
14. Procedures for academic dismissal or dismissal from a government job
The primary drafter of the constitution
Procedural due process
letters of intent
sixth amendment
15. The party filing the appeal
Appellant
Mail box rule
licensee
you cannot revoke an offer...
16. Someone on the property by right of a public place. highest duty of due care is owed to avoid negligence
Contributory Negligence
uniform commercial code
invitee
Henry DeBracton
17. Judges who disagree with the majority holding; states their opposing opinion
Administrative Law
Dissenting Opinion
tort
Malice
18. A company becomes liable if they do not perform a background check
How much of a majority is it to override a presidents veto
Defamation
larceny
negligent hiring
19. Type of intent to be proved; means a guilty state of mind
forseeable harm
Fraud
Medicare fraud
mens rea
20. The documents that begin a lawsuit: consists of the complaint - answer and sometimes a reply
Pleadings
First Woman Justice
Significance of 'On the Laws and Customs of England'
RICO
21. Language added to a court's opinion that is beyond what is needed; extra words offered as guidance
invitee
fifth amendment
Minimal scrutiny
Dicta
22. To a committee to be studied; and then debated and voted upon; this is where new amendments can be added.
Voir Dire
After a bill enters the house of rep or senate - it goes where...
agreement
coercion
23. The legal doctrine whereby an act is considered negligent because it violates a statute (or regulation)
actus reus
Negligence per se
forseeable harm
Interrogatories
24. No self incrimination / due process (miranda warnings)
element 4 of a negligence lawsuit
Veto
fifth amendment
Bill
25. Arbitration and Mediation
precedent
Interrogatories
Two types of dispute resolution
Tortious interference with a contract
26. Type of business crime; the fraudulent conversion of property already in the defendants posession.
Federalism
negligent hiring
embezzlement
element 3 of a negligence lawsuit
27. When a law remains untouched on the presidents desk for over 10 days after congress's adjournment
Current Chief Justice
Federalism
Pocket Veto
Contributory Negligence
28. A contract put in writing laying out all of the terms
Rationale
negligent retention
conversion
express contract
29. The floor/leadership - where it is debated upon with no time limit.
In the senate - after the bill leave committee it travels to...
Where the bill goes after conference committee
conversion
element 1 of a negligence lawsuit
30. Faking car accidents and injury in order to gain a settlement
express contract
element 2 of a negligence lawsuit
Holding
Insurance Fraud
31. A power granted to congress stating that congress may regulate trade between countries - other states and indian tribes
French social commentator and political thinker who created the Separation of Powers theory
expiration
regulation of interstate commerce
After a bill enters the house of rep or senate - it goes where...
32. States who is suing who. Identifies parties.
Where the bill goes after conference committee
Style of a Case
Interrogatories
Res ipsa loquitor
33. FCC (Federal Communications Commission)
What Freedom of speech includes
Who regulates commercial speech
negligent retention
Henry DeBracton
34. Collected taxes and helped keep the peace in tenth century England. Equivalent to a modern day Sheriff.
Shire Reeves
Citation
rejection
Negligence
35. 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.
Conference committee
Mail Fraud
Negligence per se
Common Law
36. Business tort; intrusion in to someones private life; being a voyeur
Interrogatories
intrusion
mens rea
embezzlement
37. During the option period of a contract
you cannot revoke an offer...
conversion
Who regulates commercial speech
mens rea
38. Type of defense; when the government induces the defendant to break the law.
assault
Bystander's obligation means...
entrapment
Strict scrutiny
39. Proposed statutes - submitted to Congress or a legislature
insanity
Bill
Stare Decisis
Fraud
40. Talking trash
entrapment
Qualifications for defamation
quasi contract
Defamation
41. No state can deny citizens due process. (14th amendment) this incorporates states to be ruled under the constitution
Incorporation clause
Minimal scrutiny
element 3 of a negligence lawsuit
John Locke
42. Termination by simply turning down the offer
licensee
first requirement of a contract
rejection
mirror image rule
43. Type of defense; the practice of forcing another party to behave in an involuntary manner (whether through action or inaction) by use of threats or rewards
coercion
Negligence
express contract
Two types of dispute resolution
44. No unreasonable searches or seizures
What is not protected under the first amendment
First Woman Justice
Collective Responsibility
fourth amendment
45. Type of intentional tort (and crime); injuring someone by deliberate deception
Number of judges on the panel in the Court of Appeals
mens rea
Supremacy clause
Fraud
46. Type of intentional tort; an act that makes a person fear imminent battery
Mail box rule
assault
conversion
Dicta
47. Reasoning court gives for the holding
Rationale
promissory estoppel
intrusion
Step four in filing a civil law suit
48. If a company does not address an insubordinate employee - they become liable
Malice
quasi contract
negligent retention
Comparative Fault
49. The introduction of a neutral third party in resolving a dispute; not a binding decision. Voluntary settlement.
Mediation
Intermediate scrutiny
Separation of powers
sixth amendment
50. A court will imply by conduct that there was an agreement between two parties
Common Law
implied contract
How Federal Law has jurisdiction in a lawsuit
Conference committee