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100
Common name for taking money from someone so that you will not "tell on them."
What is blackmail?
100
An intentional homicide.
What is murder?
100
A type of larceny that occurs in a store.
What is shoplifting?
100
Dollar limit which requires that civil cases be heard in Circuit Court.
What is $25,000?
100
When the judge issues a ruling stopping a person or business from a particular activity.
What is an injunction?
200
Signing someone else's name to a document.
What is fraud?
200
An unintentional homicide.
What is manslaughter?
200
Larceny that involves "breaking and entering."
What is burglary?
200
Negligent action that was the cause of some injury or harm.
What is Proximate Cause?
200
When the person who experienced injury or harm was also negligent in some way.
What is Contributory Negligence?
300
Taking items from you employer.
What is embezzlement?
300
Homicide that is pre-meditated.
What is first degree murder?
300
Threatening someone with a weapon.
What is Aggravated Assault?
300
Saying untrue things about someone, attempting to ruin his or her reputation.
What is slander?
300
For people in "public positions," this must be proven in order find someone guilty of defamation.
What is malice?
400
Attempting to assume someone else's identity.
What is fraud?
400
Intentional homicide that happens on the spur of the moment.
What is Second Degree Murder?
400
Larceny of materials that were under the care of the accused.
What is embezzlement?
400
Trying to ruin someone's reputation with false statements made on television or in a magazine.
What is libel?
400
Label for a case that involves wild animals or other "ultra-hazardous" materials.
What is Strict Liability?
500
Using information to get money from someone else.
What is extortion?
500
Unintentional homicide that is usually committed in the midst of strong emotion.
What is Voluntary Manslaughter?
500
Throwing a brick into a crowd, injuring someone.
What is battery?
500
The general term that includes the crimes of libel and slander.
What is defamation?
500
Saying a person should have expected the injury or harm in a civil case because of the activity that he or she was involved in.
What is Assumption of Risk?