Tort Law
Making an intentional, unwanted, and reasonably offensive bodily contact.
What is Battery
Geographic location of the trial.
What is called Venue?
Consist of a promise in exchange for a promise.
What is a Bilateral contract?
Courts will award these types of damages in cases where the defendant committed gross negligence.
What are punitive damages?
This Amendment protects individuals against self-incrimination in a criminal case.
What is the Fifth Amendment?
Confining or restraining a person against their will for an appreciable period of time.
What is false imprisonment.
The U.S. has these two parallel court structures.
What are the federal structure, and the state structure?
Two important sources of contract law are these two laws.
What are Common Law and the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC)?
This special law encourages selfless and courageous behavior by removing the threat of liability.
What is known as the Good Samaritan Statute?
This Amendment protects citizens from unreasonable search and seizure.
What is the Fourth Amendment?
Placing another in fear or apprehension of an immediate, offensive body contact.
What is Assult
This gives power to the court to render a decision affecting a person's legal rights.
What is Jurisdiction?
A court can impose this type of contractual obligation to prevent one party from being unjustly enriched at the expense of another.
What is a Quasi-contract?
Individual is liable without fault when she engages in inherently dangerous activity that can cause serious harm to people or property.
What is Strict Liability?
Article VI of the Constitution explains the laws of the land in this section.
What is the Supremacy Clause?
To make the plaintiff whole again.
Compensatory damages.
A person who has the legal right to bring an action in court has this...
The person has Standing to sue.
This is not considered an offer because the exchange does not express willingness to be bound by acceptance.
What is Preliminary Negotiations?
The plaintiff voluntarily encountered the risk of the actual harm the defendant caused.
What is the Assumption of the Risk?
The primary source of authority for federal regulation of business is the Commerce Clause located in this Article.
What is Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution?
This occurs when a party uses intentional deceit to facilitate personal gain.
What is Fraudulent Misrepresentation?
This is the court of last resort and has this number of justices serving lifetime appointments.
What is the U.S. Supreme Court?
What is Nine Justices?
The offeror can do this at any time even if the offer states it will be open for a specific time.
Revocation. The offeror is the 'master of his or her offer"
A doctrine that allows a judge or jury to infer the D's negligence caused the P's harm without direct evidence of the D's lack of due care.
What is the Plaintiff's doctrine of Res ipsa loquitur?
The US Constitution was based on this system of government.
What is federalism?