Law, Justice, and You
Special Laws for Special Groups
Contracts: Making Binding Agreements
Property Laws
Surprise
100
Responsibility of a corporate officer for a crime committed by one of the corporate employees.
What is Vicarious Criminal Liability
100
Age at which one is legally bound to contract.
What is Majority
100
Charging a higher interest rate than that permitted by law.
What is usury
100
The ownership interest of the tenant in real property.
What is Leasehold Estate
100
Fraudulent taking of money or other property entrusted to one's care.
What is embezzlement.
200
Choosing to remain in a situation despite awareness of a danger that could cause injury.
What is Assumption of the risk.
200
Court appointed representive of an interstate.
What is administrator
200
A contract in which only one of the properties has the power to compel legal enforcement; withdrawl by that party cancels the contract.
What is voidable contract
200
Remaining in possession after the least has expired.
What is Tenancy at Sufferance
200
Written defamation
What is Libel
300
Laws prohibiting business practice that interfere with free competition.
What is Anti-trust Laws
300
The mutual obligations, both practical & legal, of the husband & wife in a marriage contract
What is marital consortium
300
A token amount identified in a written contract when parties either cannot or do not wish to state the amount exactly.
What is nominal consideration
300
The duty of a tenant to take a reasonable care of the leased property & return it in substantially the same condition it was in when the lease began.
What is Duty of Reasonable Care
300
Agreement of all creditors to accept a portion of their claims as full payment.
What is Composition of creditors
400
A private or civil wrong, an offense against an individual.
What is Tort
400
A child under a specified age who commit a criminal act or is incorrigible.
What is juvenile delinquent
400
When a promise is enforced, even though no consideration is given for it.
What is promissory estoppel
400
Tenants transferring part of interest to another.
What is subletting
400
Refusal to carry out a voidable contract.
What is Disaffirmance
500
A 3rd party's enticing or encouraging a breach of contract in which the 3rd party may be liable in tort to the non-breeching party
What is interference with contractual relations
500
Knowledge by the maker of a will of the kind & extent of the property involved & the persons who stand to benefit, & awareness that he or she is making arrangements to dispose of his or her property after death.
What is testamentary capacity
500
Underlying contract to keep an offer open.
What is Firm Offer
500
A promise made by a tenant which is violated, allows the landlord to terminate the lease & evict the tenant.
What is Lease Condition
500
A promise made by a tenant which, if violated, allows the landlord to sue for damages while the lease remains in effect.
What is Lease covenant