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REE 3433 Exam 1 ucfLaw: - ANS-a body of rules of action or conduct prescribed by controlling authority and
having binding legal force.
Public Law: - ANS-a law that applies generally to the people of a nation or of a state.
Private Law: - ANS-the law governing relations between private individuals.
Statutory Law - ANS-an act of a legislative body declaring, commanding, or prohibiting
something
Administrative Law: - ANS-the body of law created by administrative agencies in the
form of rules, regulations, orders, and decisions to carry out regulatory powers and
duties of such agencies
Administrative Agency - ANS-a governmental body charged with administering and
implementing particular legislation.
Citation - ANS-information that enables researchers to find the volume and pages
where cases are published
Common Law - ANS-the legal system originating in England after 1066. Judge-made
law created when there is no controlling constitutional, statutory, or other law.
Stare decisis: - ANS-to abide by or adhere to previous decided cases.
Jurisdiction: - ANS-defines the powers of courts to inquire into the facts, apply the law,
make decisions, and declare judgment. It is the legal right by which judges exercise
their authority.
Res judicata: - ANS-a rule that a final judgement rendered by a court of competent
jurisdiction on the merits is conclusive as to the rights of the parties and their privies and
as to them constitutes an absolute bar to a subsequent action involving the same claim,
demand, or cause of action.
Equity: - ANS-justice administered according to fairness created in order to temper the
strictly formulated rules of the English common law.
, Injunction: - ANS-a court order prohibiting someone from doing some specified act or
commanding someone to undo some wrong or injury.
Specific performance - ANS-a type of injunction ordering the defendant to perform a
specific act.
State court - ANS-bottom to top is trial court, intermediate appellate court, highest
appellate court.
Federal court: - ANS-bottom to top is district court, court of appeals, united states
supreme court.
Diversiy of citizenship - ANS-a phase used with reference to the jurisdiction of the
federal courts. Cases between citizens of different states.
Substansive law - ANS-that part of the law that creates, defines, and regulates rights
and duties of parties, as opposed to procedural law.
Procedural law: - ANS-laws that prescribe processes for enforcing rights or gaining
redress for those who have their rights violated.
Action: - ANS-a proceeding in a court of law in which one seeks a remedy for an alleged
wrong.
Complaint: - ANS-the original or initial pleading setting forth a plaintiffs claim for relief
against the defendant.
Answer - ANS-a pleading responding to the plaintiffs claim set forth in the complaint
Third-party defendant: - ANS-a party the original defendant claims is liable for all or part
of the damages that the plaintiff may win from the original defendant.
Summary judgment - ANS-a procedural device available for the prompt disposition of an
action without a trial when there is no dispute as to material facts or inferences to be
drawn from materials facts or when only a question of law is involved.
Stages of Litigation - ANS-: commencement of legal action, defendants response,
discovery, trial, appeal, enforcement.
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