This is the concept known as "let the decision stand."
What is the doctrine of stare decisis?
100
This is the term that is used when the Constitution is interpreted according to changes in conditions.
What is the living document view of the Constitution?
100
This is the assent or agreement of the offeree to the terms of the offer.
What is acceptance of the offer?
100
This statute requires that certain types of contracts be placed in writing.
What is the Statute of Frauds?
100
This is the doctrine of employment law that in general allows an employee without a contract to be fired at any time.
What is the employment at will doctrine?
200
This is the type of classification of law that defines the rights and liabilities of the parties.
What is substantive law?
200
This constitutional limitation protects individuals against the loss of life, liberty, or property without the chance to be heard.
What is the Due Process Clause?
200
A contract made by a person who has been adjudged to be incompetent and for whom a guardian has been appointed would be classified as this type of agreement.
What is a void agreement?
200
This is the exception to the requirement that land contracts be in writing and occurs when a party has taken possession of land and has paid part of the purchase price or has made improvements on the land and has taken possession of the land.
What is the part performance exception to the Statute of Frauds?
200
These type of strikers are not entitled to regain their jobs following a strike if permanent replacements have been hired.
What are economic strikers?
300
This is a legal request that the court dismiss a plaintiff's claim which occurs immediately after discovery has been conducted.
What is a motion for summary judgment?
300
This is the constitutional clause that gives Congress the power "to regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states and with Indian tribes."
What is the Commerce Clause?
300
This constitutes consideration and exists when a party refrains from doing something he or she has a legal right to do.
What is forbearance?
300
This is a provision in a contract stipulating the amount of damages to be paid in the event of a default or a breach.
What is a liquidated damages clause?
300
This is the administrative agency that administers Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, the Equal Pay Act, the Age Discrimination Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act.
What is the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)?
400
This is the preliminary examination of the jury or an expert witness to ascertain fitness to act as such.
What is voir dire?
400
This is the constitutional clause entitling a person going to another state to make contracts, own property, and engage in business to the same extent as citizens of the state.
What is the privileges and immunities clause?
400
An agreement not to compete may only be valid in these two situations.
What is when a business is sold or through an employment contract?
400
This is the rule that generally prohibits the introduction of evidence of oral or written statements made prior to or contemporaneously with the execution of a complete contract.
What is the parol evidence rule?
400
An example of this is a men clothing store's policy of hiring only males to do measurements for suit alterations.
What is a bona fide occupational exception?
500
This is the testimony of a witness taken out of court before a person authorized to administer oaths.
What is a deposition?
500
This is a law that prohibits making criminal an act that was lawful when done or that prohibits increasing the penalty from the penalty that was in place when the act was committed.
What is an ex post facto law?
500
These contracts are exceptions to the definiteness requirement and exist when a seller states that he or she will sell to a particular buyer all that is produced and the buyer will buy from a particular seller all that is required.
What are outputs and requirements contracts?
500
This is when one party to a contract transfers his or her rights under the contract to a third party.
What is an assignment of rights?
500
Title VII prohibits an employer from doing this to an employee after the employee has "made a charge, testified, assisted or participated in any manner in an investigation, proceeding [or] hearing."