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Cpcu 530 Questions And Answers WithVerified Solutions 100% Correct!!! Rated
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Civil Law - ANSWER✔✔ written laws or statutes that apply to all legal questions.
Common Law - ANSWER✔✔ Body of law derived from court decisions as opposed
to statutes
Doctrine of stare decisis - ANSWER✔✔ Lower courts must follow precedents set
by higher courts. Courts follow earlier court decisions when the same issues arise
again in lawsuits
Criminal law - ANSWER✔✔ Branch of the law that imposes penalties for wrongs
against society. Government is responsible for prosecuting perpetrators.
Civil Law - ANSWER✔✔ Protects rights and provides remedies for breaches of
duties owed to others.
Substantive Law - ANSWER✔✔ A classification of law that creates, defines, and
regulates parties rights, duties and powers
Procedural Law - ANSWER✔✔ A classification of law that prescribes the steps for
enforcing the rights and duties defined by substantive law
Executive Brach - ANSWER✔✔ Has power to recommend, approve, or veto laws.
Includes the power to appoint some judges
,Legislative Branch - ANSWER✔✔ Has the power to pass laws. Can approve or
deny many of the executives appointment ex: judges
Judicial Branch - ANSWER✔✔ Interprets, affirms, or negates laws.
Original jurisdiction - ANSWER✔✔ Power of court in which cases are initiated
Appellate Jurisdiction - ANSWER✔✔ Power of a court that hear appeals from
other courts
Diversity jurisdiction - ANSWER✔✔ The authority of federal district courts to hear
cases involving parties from different parties from different states that involve
amounts over a legal minimum
Writ of certiorari - ANSWER✔✔ An appellate court's order directing a lower court
to deliver its record in a case for appellate review
Conflicts of law - ANSWER✔✔ A body of law that resolves questions when states'
laws conflict. In tort cases the law in force where the injury occurred usually
applies. In contract cases use the center of gravity rule, applying the law of the
state with the most significant relationship to the case.
Complaint - ANSWER✔✔ The allegations made by a plaintiff in a lawsuit
, Pleading - ANSWER✔✔ A formal written statement of the facts and claims of each
party to a lawsuit
Cause of action - ANSWER✔✔ A plaintiff's legal grounds to sue a defendant
Answer - ANSWER✔✔ A document filed in court by a defendant responding to a
plaintiff's complaint and explaining why the plaintiff should not win the case.
Counterclaim - ANSWER✔✔ A complaint brought by the defendant against the
plaintiff
Motion - ANSWER✔✔ A formal request for the court to take a particular action
Motion to dismiss - ANSWER✔✔ A request that a court terminate an action
because of settlement, etc
Motion for summary judgment - ANSWER✔✔ A pretrial request asking the court
to enter a judgment, arguing the other side has failed to meet the legal standard
to submit the case to a jury to decide
Discovery - ANSWER✔✔ A pretrial of all relevant information between the
plaintiff and defendant
Deposition - ANSWER✔✔ A pretrial discovery tool involving oral examination of a
witness to produce a written verbatim record
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