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BUSINESS LAW JEOPARDY
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500 400 300 200 100 All About Contracts Contract Formation Civil Procedure TORTSTHE “LAW”
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Categories System of jurisprudence which originated in England; based on judicial precedent
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Categories Common Law
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Categories Laws enacted by a legislative body
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Categories Statutory Law
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Categories Body of law created by agencies, such as the SEC and FTC, in the form of rules, regulations, orders, and decisions
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Categories Administrative Law
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Categories Rules of law announced in court decisions
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Categories Case Law
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Categories Defines wrongful actions against society for which society demands redress
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Categories Criminal Law
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Categories The failure to exercise the standard of care that a reasonable person would have exercised under the circumstances
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Categories Negligence
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Categories The unprivileged, intentional touching of another
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Categories Battery
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Categories “But for” cause
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Categories Actual Cause
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Categories A concept used to determine whether a P’s injury was the natural and continuous result of a D’s negligence Torts 400 Points
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Categories Proximate Cause
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Categories An action intended to make another person fearful of immediate physical harm
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Categories Assault
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Categories The initial pleading in a lawsuit, alleging the facts which constitute the P’s cause of action
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Categories Complaint
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Categories Written questions propounded to another party to be answered under oath
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Categories Interrogatories
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Categories The aptly named process by which the parties discover the true facts of the case
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Categories Discovery
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Categories The geographic location where a lawsuit should be heard
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Categories Venue
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Categories A court’s power to hear and determine a particular case
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Categories Jurisdiction
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Categories A proposal manifesting present intention to contract
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Categories Offer
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Categories The offeree’s notification to the offeror that the offeree agrees to be bound by the terms of the offer
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Categories Acceptance
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Categories The value given in return for a promise
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Categories Consideration
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Categories Requires that certain types of contracts be evidenced by a writing in order to be enforceable
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Categories Statute of Frauds
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Categories Test used to determine whether the parties had the intention to contract
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Categories Objective test (or reasonable person test)
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Categories What minors and insane people lack
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Categories Contractual Capacity
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Categories This equitable doctrine may be applied when one party has detrimentally relied on another party’s promise
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Categories Promissory Estoppel
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Categories Arises when one party pays consideration in exchange for the promise not to revoke
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Categories Option Contract
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Categories Created when a merchant, in a signed writing, promises to leave an offer open
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Categories Merchant’s Firm Offer
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Categories Misrepresentation of a material fact to induce the other party to enter into a contract
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Categories Fraud
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Categories FINAL JEOPARDY The Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court
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Categories DAILY DOUBLE!
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