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College Business Law
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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.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
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. Killing with aforethought
murder (homicide)
1st degree murder
drug/substance use
usury statue
2. Something that produces result - without it the result wouldnt of occured
patent
conversion
proximate cause
amoral
3. Taking under $300
battery
capactiy
petty larceny
periodic tenancency
4. Buyer
probate courts
grantee
Federal and state constitution
larceny by false pretenses (fraud)
5. False statements in written or printed form that injures anothers rep
murder (homicide)
mechanics lein
libel
codicil
6. Leagal doc containing a short and plain statement against the defendaant the clerk of courts issue a summons notice to the defendant that a lawsuit has begun
invasion of privacy
complaint
probate
consideration
7. Fixed payments during the life of a loan but one large paymnt at the end
grantor
balloon payment
tenancy sufferance
codicil
8. Intermediate courts have authority to hear appeals and review cases from lower courts - they have appeleate jurisdiction
motor vehicle violations
parol evidence rule
us court of appeals
defenses to negligence
9. Pay or give anything of value to public officials in order to inlufence their official activity
bribery
Felony murder rule
tender
burgulary
10. Papers fied in courts by the plaintif and the defendant at the beginningof a suit
Federal and state constitution
pleadings
intentional torte
doctrine of adverse possession
11. Only entitled to reward if you know about it
probate courts
battery
reward
grantor
12. Doctrine that gives state gove right to regulate health - saftey - welfare - and morals of the people
public policy
federal controlled substance act
larceny by false pretenses (fraud)
6 contract elements
13. Not doing something you have a legal right to do
forebearance
arraginment
lessee
drug/substance use
14. Cant be touched - copy right
equity
federal privacy act
intangible property
amoral
15. Something that produces result - without it the result wouldnt of occured
forebearance
bailment
proximate cause
accord and satisfaction
16. Removal or restraint of a person against their will
concealment
warranty of habitablity
kidapping
doctrine of adverse possession
17. Handle estates of the deceased
probate courts
lessee
kidapping
economic duress
18. Tenant wrongfully stays on rental property after the tenancy ended
tenancy sufferance
6 contract elements
accord and satisfaction
voluntary man slaughter
19. Thing that poses a risk to chldren who may be attracted to it
district courts
promise to obey the law
attractive nusiance
larceny
20. Agreements to sell a particular product or service at an agreed price
price fixing
contributory negligence
attractive nusiance
pleadings
21. An amendment or addition to a will
codicil
district courts
assault
doctrine of adverse possession
22. A person who doesnt really own property but takes possession of it for a specified time period may become legal owner
doctrine of adverse possession
manslaughter
larceny by false pretenses (fraud)
forebearance
23. Taking of another's property or money by a person to whom it has been entrusted
criminal act
intestacy
embezzlement
negligence
24. Occurs when one person while breaking a law kills someone
covenants
involuntary manslaughter
manslaughter
murder (homicide)
25. Thing that poses a risk to chldren who may be attracted to it
tangible property
conversion
attractive nusiance
general trial courts
26. Interfearane with anothers enjoyment of life or property
greatest good principle
tangible property
nuisance
reward
27. Agreements to sell a particular product or service at an agreed price
concealment
unruly child
price fixing
express contract
28. Classifies drugs into groups with set penalties for each group
undue influence
federal controlled substance act
balloon payment
lost property
29. Transfers a sellers intrest in property but does not warrant that sellers owns any interst
morgage
testatrix
novation
quitclaim deed
30. Unlawful toutching of another person
battery
libel
grantee
balloon payment
31. Says that evidence of an oral statement made before signing a written agreement cannot be presented in court
parol evidence rule
libel
kidapping
common law
32. So one sided that it unfairly oppresses one party and unreasonably favors the other
general warranty deed
federal privacy act
unconsinable
forgery
33. Property right to make use of land beloning to another
local trial courts
periodic tenancency
easement
licensing statute
34. If someone is already under a legal duty to do something promise is not needed
general warranty deed
economic duress
pre existing duty
murder (homicide)
35. Failure to act with the prudence that a reasonable person would exercise under the same circumstances
negligence
murder (homicide)
libel
general trial courts
36. Consists of threats to a person's business or income that cause him or her to enter a contract without real consent
economic duress
negligence
misplaced property
minor
37. Female who makes the will
testatrix
defamation
lost property
nuisance
38. Valid void - express or implied - bilateral or unilateral - oral or written
capactiy
characteristics of a contract
forgery
lessee
39. Doesnt constitute consideration everyone must follow the law
administrative law
diversity of citizenship
promise to obey the law
doctrine of adverse possession
40. The principles of right and wrong that guide an individual in making decisions
promise to make a gift
robbery
ethics
amoral
41. Unlawful resetraint of a person wheather in proision or otherwise (must use good judgement when obtaining shop lifters)
assault
novation
false imprisonment
forgery
42. For the greatest nmer of people afffected by an actoin. The more good that results the more ethical the action
patent
greatest good principle
testatrix
local trial courts
43. Only entitled to reward if you know about it
promise to make a gift
licensing statute
concealment
reward
44. Right of a bailee to hold goods until charges are paid
general warranty deed
easement
mechanics lein
federal privacy act
45. Being issued a driverrs license is a privledge not a right
general trial courts
price fixing
capactiy
motor vehicle violations
46. Pledges and subscriptions to charities
grantee
enforced without consideration
torte feasor
consideration
47. Criminal act & required state of mind
Elements of a Crime
warranty of habitablity
complaint
graduated payment morgage
48. Actions involving more than 50000 between citizens of different states
warranty of habitablity
intestacy
diversity of citizenship
strict liablity
49. Unlawful resetraint of a person wheather in proision or otherwise (must use good judgement when obtaining shop lifters)
embezzlement
6 contract elements
special federal courts
false imprisonment
50. When 2 parties to a contract disagree the court uses the reasonable person test
patent
satisfactory preformance
equity
torte