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College Business Law
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business-law
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. No consideration is recieved (only one person benefits)
promise to make a gift
warranty of habitablity
tenancy sufferance
agreements to obstruct justice
2. Revocation - rejection - counter offer - experation of time
parol evidence rule
termination of an offer
manslaughter
greatest good principle
3. Tenant
minor
lessee
mechanics lein
administrative law
4. Unlawful and violent taking of personal property
contributory negligence
evaluation contradictory terms
special federal courts
robbery
5. Occurs when you transfer part of the term of a lease - but not the remainder of it - to someone else
sublease
bribery
addiction
copyright
6. Preclude 'a person from denying or asserting anything to the contrary of that which has - in contemplation of law - been established as the truth - either by the acts of judicial
equitable estopple
greatest good principle
unconsinable
undue influence
7. This is when a promise is reasonably relied upon - to the substantial detriment of the relying party.
intentional torte
promissory estopple
supreme court
slander
8. Supplements common law. Passed by some governmental body and written in some form.
statuatory law
eminent domain
parol evidence rule
embezzlement
9. Pledges and subscriptions to charities
enforced without consideration
diversity of citizenship
misplaced property
murder (homicide)
10. Doctrine that gives state gove right to regulate health - saftey - welfare - and morals of the people
accord and satisfaction
public policy
murder (homicide)
tenancy for years
11. Made any agreement made on Sunday void.
sunday statutes
concealment
invasion of privacy
kidapping
12. Detention haring - adjudicatory hearing - disposal hearing
larceny by false pretenses (fraud)
parol evidence rule
juvinile cases
termination of an offer
13. Court in which wills are proved
probate
defamation
easement
motor vehicle violations
14. The activity of keeping something secret
concealment
equitable estopple
undue influence
novation
15. Entering a b uliding to commit a crime
defenses to negligence
burgulary
equity
defamation
16. Fraud
price fixing
3 requirements of an offer
minor who claims to be over the age of majority has committed _______ and can be sued
federal privacy act
17. Something that produces result - without it the result wouldnt of occured
federal privacy act
lessor
proximate cause
testatrix
18. Have original jurisdiction - the authority to try a case the first time its heard
ethics
indictment
express contract
district courts
19. Minor who has done something that would not be a crime if it were done by an adult
sublease
public policy
unruly child
probate courts
20. Difference between fair market value and the debt in the property
morgage
equity
defenses to negligence
intentional torte
21. Criminal act & required state of mind
lessor
assault
Elements of a Crime
grantor
22. Fixed payments during the life of a loan but one large paymnt at the end
statuatory law
express contract
balloon payment
motor vehicle violations
23. An act against the public good - punishable by a fine - imprisonment or both
burgulary
diversity of citizenship
crime
petit jury
24. Difference between fair market value and the debt in the property
mututal benefit bailments
tenancy for years
equity
truth in lending act
25. Jury decides verdict - precentance hearing to decide punishmet appeal the states highest court
bailor
concealment
burgulary
death penalty
26. Insanity - entrapment - self defense - defense of fam member
graduated payment morgage
involuntary manslaughter
invasion of privacy
defenses of crimes
27. The principles of right and wrong that guide an individual in making decisions
morgage
ethics
defamation
tenancy sufferance
28. Accused brought to court - read indictment - asked to plead guilty or not guilty
slander
intangible property
truth in lending act
arraginment
29. Intermediate courts have authority to hear appeals and review cases from lower courts - they have appeleate jurisdiction
common law
district courts
special federal courts
us court of appeals
30. Laws based on England and custom
licensing statute
price fixing
death penalty
common law
31. Valid void - express or implied - bilateral or unilateral - oral or written
characteristics of a contract
federal privacy act
protective orderr
pre existing duty
32. Requires that the landlord make those repairds necessary to keep the premisies fit
tangible property
minor
promissory estopple
warranty of habitablity
33. Continues forever
minor
Lawsuit must prove 4 things
tenancy at will
torte
34. Limited jurisdictions in minor matters such as misdemeanors and civil actions involving small amounts of money
local trial courts
covenants
easement
periodic tenancency
35. Nail place - hair place-license to do a job
misplaced property
defamation
parol evidence rule
licensing statute
36. Taking of another's property or money by a person to whom it has been entrusted
larceny by false pretenses (fraud)
embezzlement
minor
federal controlled substance act
37. Supplements common law. Passed by some governmental body and written in some form.
juvinile cases
robbery
agreements to obstruct justice
statuatory law
38. Holds bailors property for specific time/service
bailee
covenants
torte feasor
mututal benefit bailments
39. An outcome that was planned - although the person involved may not have believed that the intended outcome would be harmful to the other person.
eminent domain
morality
negligence
intentional torte
40. Thing that poses a risk to chldren who may be attracted to it
voidable contracts
attractive nusiance
amoral
defenses to negligence
41. Killing with aforethought
murder (homicide)
misplaced property
lost property
assault
42. Holds bailors property for specific time/service
larceny
death penalty
bailee
petit jury
43. The principles of right and wrong that guide an individual in making decisions
ethics
tenancy sufferance
pleadings
mechanics lein
44. Make sell use invention for 17 years
addiction
patent
larceny by false pretenses (fraud)
price fixing
45. A promise made by the purchaser or lessee of land that the use of the premises will conform to conditions specified by the landlord.
invasion of privacy
involuntary manslaughter
nuisance
covenants
46. Written accusation charging suspect with crime
indictment
involuntary manslaughter
intestacy
easement
47. Papers fied in courts by the plaintif and the defendant at the beginningof a suit
capactiy
pleadings
petit jury
testatrix
48. Failure to act with the prudence that a reasonable person would exercise under the same circumstances
strict liablity
false imprisonment
indictment
negligence
49. Handles suits against federal gov and disputes over taxes
special federal courts
termination of an offer
addiction
tenancy sufferance
50. Unlawful resetraint of a person wheather in proision or otherwise (must use good judgement when obtaining shop lifters)
false imprisonment
nuisance
sublease
general trial courts