LEGL2700 Hackleman exam 1 Questions With Correct Answers
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LEGL2700 Hackleman exam 1 Questions
With Correct Answers
Business people in the United States must... - answerbe aware of the legal and regulatory landscape
and take steps to ensure full compliance with the law to avoid civil and criminal liability
law must be... - answerenforced and adequate
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LEGL2700 Hackleman exam 1 Questions
With Correct Answers
Business people in the United States must... - answer✔be aware of the legal and regulatory landscape
and take steps to ensure full compliance with the law to avoid civil and criminal liability
law must be... - answer✔enforced and adequate
rule of law - answer✔all laws are generally and equally applicable to everyone; more of an ideal;
wealthier nations generally all follow a rule of law
Chief Justice Roberts view regarding the rule of law... - answer✔if the Constitution says that the little
guy should win, then the little guy will win in the court before him; if it says that the big guy should win,
then the big guy will win
property - answer✔a legal fence; incentivizes us to do research and explore
public property - answer✔applies to public resources owned by the government
examples of public property - answer✔roads, public buildings, public lands, and monuments
private property - answer✔applies to the resources that you own as an individual
common property - answer✔applies to resources that more than one person owns jointly
examples of common property - answer✔land, oceans
contract law - answer✔determines how resources, including labor, are exchanged between owners
constitutional law - answer✔establishes the framework of the state whose purpose is to protect
property in its broadest sense
administrative and regulatory law - answer✔concerns public laws that protect, tax, regulate, or
redistribute an owner's resources
criminal law - answer✔provides public protection for private resources and punishes those who harm
them
tort law - answer✔protects and compensates owners through private civil lawsuits when their
resources, including those they have in themselves, are wrongfully harmed by the actions of others
common law - answer✔emphasizes the role of judges in determining the meaning of laws
common law is used... - answer✔in countries colonized by England including the United States
civil law - answer✔relies more on legislation than judicial decisions for law
which state in the United States follows a partial civil law system and why? - answer✔Louisiana; it was
colonized by France
public law - answer✔includes those matters that involve the regulation of society as opposed to
individuals interacting; a government official represents society
types of public law - answer✔constitutional, administrative, criminal
administrative law - answer✔covers the legal principles that apply to different levels of government
private law - answer✔covers those legal problems and issues that concern your private resource
relationships with other people
types of private law - answer✔property, contract, tort
can you be involved in both a civil AND a criminal case? - answer✔yes; an example is you can be in a civil
lawsuit for attacking a person and a criminal lawsuit for committing a violent act in public
substantive law - answer✔defines the legal relationship of people with other people or between them
and the state
the rules of law governing the creation or enforcement of a contractual promise are ___________ in
nature - answer✔substantive
procedural law - answer✔deals with the method and means by which substantive law is made and
administered
procedural law provides the _________ for enforcing substantive law - answer✔machinery
sources of law include... - answer✔federal law, state law, judicial decisions/case law
what is the highest form of law? - answer✔the constitution
federal law - answer✔Constitution, Congress (legislation including statutes)
state law - answer✔federal law prevails over state law; includes state constitutions followed by statutes
or acts adopted by state legislature
ordinances - answer✔laws within the county and city level
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