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Business Law Final Multiple Choice

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Rules and Regulations
laws made by administrative agencies
precedent
using prior cases as a guide for deciding similar new cases
last winter jamie purchased a new car. after driving approximently 5000 miles the vehicle malfunctioned causing the car to flip over on the interstate and slide into a cement embankment. jamie was injured and taken to hospital for two weeks. The injury resulting from a manufactures defect is and example of a ....
tort
in order to provide stability to a legal system, courts often use prior cases as a guide for deciding similar new cases. What are these cases known as?
precedence
the division of powers between people and their government protecting us citizens from government actions is set forth in the.....?
bill of rights and first ten amendments
steps in consequential reasoning does NOT include...
universalizing the consequences
we are obligated to obey the law but not because..?
we have agreed to do so
what shouldnt be used in making an ethical decision?
emotion
what rule and ethics system coupled with the US constitution seeks to endure that our lawmaking system reflects the desires of public citizens?
majority rule and consequeces based ethics
the US constitution provided that persons may not be deprived of the following without due process of the law:
life, liberty, or the property
what area of law is primarily a concern and responsibility of individual state governments?
business and contract law
what do appellate courts do?
examine transcripts
the state court of appeals has a panel of
no more than three judges
the first court to hear a dispute is the
circuit court
under common law, how were those below the age of seven treated with regard to criminal intent
they were presumed incapable of forming intent
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