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BLAW 200 Exam 1/226 Questions with Accurate Answers
BLAW 200 Exam 1/226 Questions with Accurate Answers
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BLAW 200 Exam 1/226 Questionswith Accurate Answers
Citation - - Name of case, date it was decided, and court that decided it
- Facts - - Reasons of lawsuit, identity and arguments of plaintiffs and
defendants
- Issue - - Question form, issue presented before the court
- Decision - - Yes or a no, courts answer to the question
- Reason - - Brief summary of reasons given by court for decision
- Charters - - Instrument that establishes a body
- Statutes - - Made by the federal government, legislative branch
- Ordinances - - Made by the local government
- Treaties - - Agreement formed between two or more independent nations
- Constitutions - - Laws based on US Constitution
- Case law, precedent, stare decisis - - Rules of law announced in court
decisions
- Executive order - - Actions chief executive can take
- Administrative law - - Body of law created by administrative agencies to
carry our duties and responsibilities
- Contract - - Agreement that can be enforced in court
- Initiative and recall - - Enables citizens to bypass state legislature, allows
citizens to remove and replace public official before end of a term of office
- Referendum - - General term which refers to a measure that appears on
ballot
- Common law - - Body of law developed from custom or judicial decisions in
English and US courts
- Equity - - Rights and procedures to provide fairness
, - Hawaiian customs - - Observed over islands, part of law
- International law - - Treaties between countries
- Law - - Body of enforceable rules governing relationships among
individuals and between individuals and they society
- Levels of making law - - Federal, all 13 sources of law
State, all except treaties
County/local, all except treaties
- What can only be made at the federal level? - - Treaties
- Judicial branch - - Makes case law (precedent, stare decisis)
- Executive branch - - Responsible for half of the statutes. Executive orders,
administrative agencies, and negotiating treaties
- Legislative branch - - Responsible for other half of statutes, passes
statutes for chief executive to sign
- The people - - Initiative and recall, referendum, contracts
- What do courts of equity use? - - Equitable maxims
- Substantive law - - Gives rights and duties
- Procedural law - - How we enforce rights and duties
- Civil law - - Branch of law dealing with definition and enforcement of all
private or public goods
- Criminal law - - Law that defines and governs actions that constitute
crimes, committed against society
- Jurisdiction - - Official power to make legal decisions/judgements
- Alternative dispute resolution (ADR) - - Resolution of disputes in ways
other than those involved in traditional judicial process
- Negotiation - - Process by which parties attempt to settle their dispute
without going to court
- Mediation - - Method of settling disputes outside of court by using services
of a neutral third party
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