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Paralegal 101

Subject : law
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution.






2. Information that can be presented in a court of law as proof of some fact.






3. A witness who has not been shown to have any special expertise.






4. The justified use of force to protect oneself or others.






5. The power of a court to hear a case.






6. Money or something else of value that is held by the government to ensure the defendant's appearance in court.






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






8. A provision in a deed that prohibits specified uses of the property.






9. Consists of records - contracts - leases - wills - and other written instruments.






10. A national paralegal association.






11. Information that tells the reader the name of the case - where it can be located - the court that decided it - and the year it was decided. The Bluebook gives precise rules as to how case citations are to be written.






12. 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.






13. Written questions sent by one side to the opposing side - answered under oath.






14. A person who assists an attorney and - working under the attorney's supervision - does tasks that - absent the paralegal - the attorney would do. A paralegal cannot give advice or appear in court.






15. A court's power to review statutes to decide if they conform to the federal or a state constitution.






16. When an appellate court overturns or negates the decision of a lower court.






17. The status of being formally recognized by a nongovernmental organization for having met special criteria - such as fulfilling educational requirements and passing an exam - established by that organization.






18. A national voluntary organization of lawyers.






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






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






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






22. The person who is being asked questions at a deposition.






23. The rules whereby all members of a law firm are treated as though they had represented the former client.






24. A court's prior permission for the police to search and seize.






25. The failure to act reasonably under the circumstances.






26. An opinion that disagrees with the majority's decision and reasoning.






27. A statutory citation is a formalized method for referring to a statute's chapter (or title) and section numbers.






28. To perform.






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






30. Bad intent.






31. A decision is reversed when an appellate court overturns or negates the decision of a lower court.






32. 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.






33. The party in a case against whom an appeal has been filed.






34. In logic - a belief that justifies one in arguing a conclusion.






35. An actual incident or condition; not a legal consequence.






36. The right of the police to detain an individual for a brief period of time and to search the outside of the person's clothing if the police have a reasonable suspicion that the individual has committed or is about to commit crime.






37. An intentional tort that covers a variety of situations - including disclosure - intrusion - appropriation - and false light.






38. Evidence that is derived from an illegal search or interrogation is inadmissible.






39. Evidence that supports previous testimony but that comes in a different form.






40. A national association of paralegal managers.






41. An intentional act that creates a reasonable apprehension of an immediate harmful or offensive physical contact.






42. A method for interpreting statutes in which the ordinary meaning of the statute's language is examined.






43. Questions relating to what happened: who - what - when - where - and how.






44. In a case brief - the general legal principle in existence before the case began.






45. A defendant's plea meaning that the defendant neither admits nor denies the charges.






46. A test that provides that the defendant is not guity due to insanity if - at the time of the killing the defendant could not control his or her actions.






47. Intangible assets - such as trade secrets - copyrights - patents - and trade or service marks.






48. A separable part of a statute that must be satisfied for the statute to apply.






49. A means of gaining appellate review; in the U.S. Supreme Court the writ is discretionary and will be issued to another court to review a federal question if four of the nine justices vote to hear the case.






50. Also known as real estate; land and items growing on or permanently attached to that land.