Criminal Law
This grade of crime can be punishable by a confinement in a county or city jail for less than 5 years and a fine of $10,000 or less.
What is a misdemeanor?
An offense against an individual.
What is a tort?
This court would handle a case where a 14-year-old got charged with a couple assault charges.
What is juvenile court?
The person who makes the offer in a contract situation.
Who is the offeror?
This crime can be described as obtaining money or other property from a person by wrongful use of force, fear, or the power of office.
What is extortion (blackmail)?
A false statement that injures a person's reputation or name.
What is defamation?
The number of justices that sit on the U.S. Supreme Court.
What is 9?
When one party uses an improper threat to get someone to enter into a contract with them.
What is duress?
When the offeror takes back their offer before the other party accepts it.
What is revocation (revoking the offer)?
When someone who has committed a crime is given freedom from prosecution in exchange for an agreement to testify about other criminals.
What is immunity?
The two types of damages in civil court.
What is actual (compensatory) and punitive (exemplary)?
The name for the trial court level in state of PA.
When two parties have some type of relationship, and one party is in a position of trust and wrongfully dominates the other party to enter a contract.
What is undue influence?
When a party in a contract is acting as if they intend to be bound by the contract (like making on-going payments).
What is ratification (or ratifying the contract)?
These laws are often written as such: "A person in any lawful place outside his home “has no duty to retreat and has the right to stand his ground and use force, including deadly force if . . . (he/she) believes it is immediately necessary to do so to protect himself against death, serious bodily injury, kidnapping, or sexual intercourse by force or threat.”
What are 'Stand Your Ground' laws?
Duty, breach of duty, injury, and causation.
What are the 4 elements of a tort?
The number of Federal Courts of Appeal in the U.S.
What is 13?
The primary protection offered to those parties that lack contractual capacity.
What is disaffirmance?
When a contract contains a clause that allows you to "escape" or "get out of" your obligation.
What is an illusory promise?
When a minor is found guilty of a crime, they are said to be an "___________ ___________".
What is an adjudicated delinquent?
The burden of proof in a civil case.
What is 'by a preponderance of the evidence'?
When an appellate court sends a case back down to the trial court level for corrective action or a new trial.
What is remand?
The laws in each state that determine which types of contracts have to be put in writing in order to be enforceable.
What is the Statute of Frauds?
The rule states that words spoken prior to the final written contract are inadmissible in court, unless one of the exceptions are made.
What is the Parol Evidence Rule?