A member in the House of Commons or a legislative assembly.
What is a legislator?
100
You have the body in Latin.
What is habeas corpus?
100
Author of Canadian Bill of Rights?
Who was John Diefenbaker?
100
The exchange of benefits.
What is consideration?
100
What is ADR in Law?
What is Alternate Dispute Resolution?
200
An agreement by an offeror to leave an offer open for a specified period of time.
What is an option?
200
A promise with no consideration in return. Failure to perform generally has no remedy in law.
What is a gratuitous promise?
200
Parliament reigns supreme.
What is Parmountcy?
200
When was The Constitution Act passed?
What is 1982?
200
The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedom has how many sections?
What is 34?
300
A task which cannot be given to someone else.
What is a “nondelegable” duty?
300
One party specifically agrees not to hold the other party liable in the event of injury.
What is a waiver?
300
A government decision to allow a person who has been convicted of a crime, to be free and absolved of that conviction, as if never convicted.
What is a pardon?
300
In a criminal procedure list the 3 types of offenses.
What are Summary conviction (minor), indictable (serious), and hybrid (the Crown chooses whether to proceed summarily or by indictment).
300
If a plaintiff is partly or solely the cause of his or her own injury.
What is Contributory Negligence?
400
Body of people elected in each province and territory to make and pass laws.
What is the Legislative assembly?
400
Ways a contract can be discharged?
What are: performance, agreement, frustration, and operation of law (bankruptcy, death, limitation acts)?
400
Defines the power of the federal and provincial government.
What are legislative enactments?
400
List the 4 elements of negligence.
What are: 1) a duty of care owed by the defendant, 2) a breach of the duty of care, 3) an injury to the plaintiff, and 4) proximate cause between the breach and the plaintiff’s injury?
400
List the 6 elements of a contract.
What are: Offer, Acceptance, Consideration, Capacity, Intention, and Legality?
500
Four (4) conditions in which the police will not need a warrant to search your residence/personal property.
What are: Consent searches Searches made in connection with an arrest. Emergency exception (imminent danger) The plain view doctrine.
500
Three (3) things found in food that will breach implied food standards.
What are: foreign objects, poisons, and diseases?
500
Three (3) conditions that will cause an offer to lapse.
What are: 1) offeree does not accept by the deadline, 2) offeree does not accept within a reasonable time, and 3) one party dies or loses the capacity to contract?
500
The plaintiff’s negligence causes him/her self-danger; the defendant has the last clear chance of averting injury. If the defendant fails to exercise care he/she is negligent.
What is the “Last Clear Chance” exception?
500
Four (4) ways one can be liable for alcohol misuse.
What are: 1. Criminal Code (driving under the influence) 2. Liquor License Act (licensed alcohol provider can be charged for serving anyone who appears intoxicated/underaged) 3. Licensed alcohol provider may liable for negligence 4. Alcohol provider (private/licensed) may liable under common law for breach of contract or negligence for breach of duty of care