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Paralegal 101

Subject : law
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. A court's prior permission for the police to search and seize.






2. A body of principles and rules that are either explicitly stated in - or inferred from - the constitutions of the United States and those of the individual states.






3. A claim by one defendant against another defendant or by one plaintiff against another plaintiff.






4. A repeat offender; one who continues to commit more crimes.






5. A statement in a judicial opinion not necessary for the decision of the case.






6. Once actual cause is found - as a policy matter - the court must also find that the act and the resulting harm were so foreseeably related as to justify a finding of liability.






7. In a case brief - facts that relate to what happened procedurally in the lower courts or administrative agencies before the case reached the court issuing the opinion.






8. The law that sets the length of time from when something happens to when a lawsuit must be filed before the right to bring it is lost.






9. In writing - a technique used to help your reader move from one thought to the next and to see the connections between them.






10. An agreement supported by consideration.






11. Defendant's reply to the complaint. It may contain statements of denial - admission - or lack of knowledge and affirmative defenses.






12. An opinion in which a majority of the court joins.






13. The intermediate appellate courts in the federal system.






14. The defense's request that the court find the prosecution failed to meet its burden and that it remove the case from the jury by finding the defendant not guilty.






15. A system of government in which the authority to govern is split between a single - nationwide central government and several regional governments that control specific geographical areas.






16. A question that suggests the answer; generally - leading questions may not be asked during direct examination of a witness.






17. Evidence that suggests the defendant's innocence.






18. An ADR mechanism whereby the parties submit their disagreement to a third party - whose decision is binding.






19. The new legal principle established by a court opinion.






20. The requirement that relief be sought from an administrative agency before proceeding to court.






21. A professional entity in which the stockholders share in the organization's profits but have their liabilities limited to the amount of their investment.






22. A decision is overruled when a court in a later case changes the law that the decision in the earlier case is no longer good law.






23. Law that deals with harm to a person or a person's property.






24. A method for measuring the relative negligence of the plaintiff and the defendant - with a commensurate sharing of the compensation for the injuries.






25. A notice informing the defendant of the lawsuit and requiring the defendant to respond or risk losing the suit.






26. A court order that ends a lawsuit; the suit cannot be refiled by the same parties.






27. A lawsuit brought by a person as a representative for a group of people who have been similarly injured.






28. The papers that begin a lawsuit-generally - the complaint and the answer.






29. Generally accepted legal principles.






30. A request made to the court.






31. A decision is reversed when the litigants appeal the trial court decision and the higher court disagrees with the decision of a lower court.






32. A statement of the court's decision that contains many of the case's specific facts - thereby limiting its future applicability to a narrow range of cases.






33. Proof that the evidence is what it is said to be.






34. An advance or down payment that is given to engage the services of an attorney.






35. Negligence by the plaintiff that contributed to his or her injury. Normally - it is a complete bar to the plaintiff's recovery.






36. 'The thing speaks for itself'; the doctrine that suggest negligence can be presumed if an event happens that would not ordinarily happen unless someone was negligent.






37. Land and objects permanently attached to land.






38. A tort committed by one who intends to do the act that creates the harm.






39. Either a subcategory of relevancy or simply another word for relevancy - the requirement that the evidence be more probative than prejudicial.






40. A request that the court order a rehearing of a lawsuit because irregularities - such as errors of the court or jury misconduct - make it probable that an impartial trial do not occur.






41. Information about what happened procedurally to the cited case before it was heard by the cited court. Do not include this information in a citation.






42. Evidence that suggests the defendant's guilt.






43. A judgment that reverses the verdict of the jury when the verdict had no reasonable factual support or was contrary to law.






44. Techniques for resolving conflicts that are alternatives to full-scale litigation. The two most common are arbitration and mediation.






45. A trial ended by the judge because of a major problem - such as a prejudicial statement by one of the attorneys.






46. An intentional act that creates a harmful or offensive physical contact.






47. A national association of paralegal managers.






48. Someone who has the power to act in the place of another.






49. Powers not stated in the Constitution but that are necessary for Congress to carry out other - expressly granted powers.






50. A set of standardized jury instructions.