biz law 3-19 test
Terms
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- defamation
- general term used for harming reputation of another
- circuit court appeals
- handels apealed decisions of district courts
- burglary
- breaking into anothers home to steal
- english common law
- what is our american legal system based on?
- strict liability
- keeping of animals, explosive and fire
- extortion
- one person is forced to act by another who is demanding something of value by using force, threats of force, or economic harm
- public nuisance
- affects larger scope of people
- nomial damages
- show you were right (minimal amount of damage)
- implied powers
- examples FDA FTC regulate areas
- private nuisance
- only affects you privately
- districts courts
- trial court level
- defendant
- person lawsuit is brought against
- complaint
- chronological storey or accunt of offense ir statement
- bribery
- both parties agree to commit
- punitive damage
- damamges to punish (person lied)
- expressed powers
- example: Fedeal regulates bankruptcy
- monopolies
- situation in which one or more people or firms control the marker in a particular area or product
- fraud
- intentional misrepresentation of an essential fact made by one party with the hope of influencing the other
- larceny
- theft, general term. includes robbery and burglary
- forgery
- wrongfully making or altering the writings of another with intent to defruad
- libel
- more permanent communication [example writting, recorded, printed, filmed]
- plaintiff
- person bringing forth lawsuit
- contributory negligence
- car accident: defendant accepts partial responsibility but also places some of the blame on plantiff
- crime
- violation against society
- statutes
- state or federal
- convertion
- someone deprived of enjoyment of personal property
- bribery and extortion
- invlove 2 parties
- fobearance
- promise to refrain from doing something that party has a legal right to do
- real property
- land or permanently attached fixtures (homes)
- false pretenses
- broad catergory of crimes involving activities to decieve others and to obtain goods by making false claims
- robbery
- taking of property in possession of another against their will and under threat of harm
- tort
- violation of a private wrong against a person or company
- nuisance
- someone deprived of enjoyment of real property
- gratutious promise
- promise that does not require some benifit in return- promisor doesnt get anything out of it.
- ordinances
- local, county and municipal
- perjury
- lying under oath
- past consideration
- promise to repay someone for a benefit after it was recieved
- slander
- less permanent communication [example spoken oral]
- a convertion
- the stolen bike is an example of ________
- comparative negligence
- 40% defendant 60% plaintiff
- barren promise
- promise to pay existing debt or to obey the law of something already owed (no sacrifice, doing it anyway)
- compensatory damage
- damages that make you whole (give back what was lost)
- negligence
- failure to exercise necessary care to protect thers from reasonable risk of harm
- liquidated
- set out in a contract between parties, so if there is a break in contract.
- vicarious liability
- liability shifted from one to another
- supreme court
- pick cases they want to hear