bus law second
Terms
undefined, object
copy deck
- acquit
- not guilty
- actus reus
- guilty act
- affidavit
- court paper sworn, signed under oath
- agent
- works for a principal
- arson
- fire or fireworks to destroy property
- deterrance
- punishment to deter of criminal acts
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due process clause
-procedural
-substantive -
p: 5th amendment rights, court must make sure taking of liberty or property that it is fair
s: government may not eliminate certain rights - curess
- committed crime because they got threatened physically or a threat to force someone into a contract
- embezzlement
- fraudulent conversion of property already in the defendents posession
- entrapment
- government induced the person to break the law
- exclusionary rule/motion to supress
- exclude evidene based on constitutional rights/motion to do so
- mens rea
- guilty state of mind
- fraud
- misrepresentation of someone to get money from them
- indictment
- govt's formal charge that someone has committed a crime
- larceny
- stealing with the intent of preventing the owner of ever using it
- probable cause
- more than likely they will find someting as evidence
- retribution
- giving the criminal a penalty of which they deserve
- check
- drawer orders the drawee bank to pay money to the payee.
- commercial
- promise to pay money
- disclaimer
- warranty does not apply
- drawee/drawer
- The person who pays a draft. In the case of a check, the bank is the drawee/person who issues a draft
- express warranty
- expressed by words or actions that goods will meet certain standards
- holder in due course
- Someone who has given value for an instrument, in good faith, without notice of outstanding claims or other defenses
- implied warranty
- Guarantees created by the Uniform Commercial Code and imposed on the seller of goods
- issuer
- The maker of a promissory note or the drawer of a draft.
- promissory note/maker
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The maker of the instrument promises to pay a specific amount of money.
/issuer of a promisorry note - payee
- someone who is owed money
- product liability
- the liability of injury an issuer has for defective products
- warranty
- guarantee that goods will meet certain standards