CONTRACTS
Offer + Acceptance + Consideration
Name the Intentional Tort. The person is placed in apprehension of imminent harmful or offensive contact.
Assault
Name the three Branches of Government
What are the Legislative, Judicial, and Executive Branch
What are the Modern Law Mens Rea Requirements for 1st Degree Murder?
Premeditated, Deliberate, Willful
Name the Intentional Tort. Harmful or offensive contact either to the person or things intimately connected to the person.
Battery
What are the Statute of Frauds exceptions? (Hint: MYLEGS)
Marriage, Year or More Contracts, Land, Executor, Goods $500 or More, Surety
Fill in the blank. "Blank" the defendants negligence this accident wouldn't have occurred.
"But For"
Courts often consult legislative history to determine this underlying goal of a statute.
What is legislative purpose
Name the Crime. Any death caused during the commission or attempted commission of a felony.
Felony Murder
The UCC applies to contracts for the sale of these.
What are goods
Name the rule. It applies when two parties are forming a contract for the sale of goods and they exchange forms that don't match that includes different or additional terms. (Hint:Battle of the Forms)
2-207
The thing speaks for itself
What is res ipsa loquitur
Name the Theory of Statutory Interpretation. The theory focuses on the ordinary meaning of the text itself at the time it was enacted, without considering outside sources.
Textualism
Name the Crime. Forcible movement or secret confinement of the victim without lawful authority and against the victim's will.
Kidnapping
This is the inchoate offense where the defendant requests or encourages another to commit a crime with intent that the crime be committed.
What is solicitation
This defense makes a contract voidable when one party was forced to sign by wrongful threats.
What is duress
These damages aim to make the plaintiff whole, including medical expenses, lost wages, and pain and suffering.
What are compensatory damages
A law that changes the legal consequences of actions or events that took place before the law was enacted. What type of Statute am I?
This crime is defined as the trespassory taking and carrying away of the personal property of another with intent to permanently deprive.
What is larceny
A legal substitution in contracts of one party for another, with the consent of everyone involved.
What is Novation
This remedy requires the breaching party to perform only when the subject matter is unique and money damages are inadequate.
What is specific performance
Under respondeat superior, an employer is only liable for torts committed by an employee acting within this.
What is scope of employment
Name the Theory of Statutory Interpretation. It focuses on practical consequences and real-world outcomes
Pragmatism
At common law, conspiracy requires an agreement and this element; under MPC it is not required.
What is an overt act
I cause a law, regulation, or agreement to automatically expire on a specific date unless its renewed or extended. What type of provision aim I?
What is A Sunset Provision.