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Sources of Law
Types of Law
Vocabulary
Stages & Ethics
Courts & Gideon
100
Acting for their citizens Legislatures enacted these.
Statutes
100
Must be found liable by a preponderance of evidence.
What is Civil Law
100
Laws based on the custom of the people.
What is common law?
100
Why you can't stay in stage 2 of law...
What is case load is too much for one person.
100
The power to review cases for errors of law.
What is Appellate jurisdiction?
200
Created by the legislative branch controlled by the executive branch.
What is Administrative Agencies (create admin rules and regulations)
200
Miranda Rights Stare Decisis Rules for civil and criminal trial process
What is Procedural law?
200
The power to hear and decide cases.
What is jurisdiction?
200
Sometime businesses ignore ethics because they are too busy trying to ...
What is maximizing profits?
200
The Three levels of the Federal Courts
What is US District Courts, Federal Courts of Appeals and The US Supreme Court?
300
The effectiveness of this law arises out of the doctrine of stare decisis.
What is Case Law?
300
Uniform Commercial Code
What is Business Law?
300
A court in which an exact account of what went on in a trial is kept so as to allow appeals.
What is court of record?
300
3 steps for rule based reasoning
What is Identify the Act, Refer to a Written Authority, Make Ethical Choice
300
The name of the USSC case that set the precedent that you would receive a lawyer as long as you could prove "special" circumstances.
What is Betts v. Brady?
400
Federal Government regulates interstate and foreign commerce.
What is Constitutional law?
400
Deals with definition of murder, breach of contract, negligence, etc
What is Substantive Law?
400
Deciding what is right or wrong in a reasoned, impartial manner.
What is Ethics?
400
Identify the alternatives Forecast the consequences for each alternative Select the choice that will provide the greatest good
What is consequence based reasoning?
400
What Gideon had to file in order to show he was too poor to afford an attorney?
What is in forma pauperis?
500
The laws are called rules and regulations.
What is Administrative Agencies/Administrative Regulations
500
Acting in the name of the people, the government investigates alleged wrongdoings as the prosecutor.
What is Criminal Law?
500
Rules of conduct that a political authority will enforce.
What are laws?
500
Name the four stages of the growth of law.
What is revenge, substitution of goods and services, courts formed, create laws
500
The name of the Connecticut Trial Courts.
What is Superior courts?