BUSINESS
LAW NAME: _________________________
Instructions:
Look up these terms in the Black's Law Dictionary and condense the
definitions into one or two sentences on your own paper. This is primarily for your own study; typing
is not required. Do not rely on the text glossary. (Estimated time required:
4 hours).
1.
2. Appellee
3. Arbitration
4. Battery
5. Beyond a
reasonable doubt
6. Burden of
Proof
7. Circumstantial
Evidence
8. Civil law
9. Common Law
10. Compensatory
damages
11. Decedent
12. Defamation
13. Deposition
14. Discovery
15. Duress
16. Duty
17. Exclusionary
Rule
18. Exemplary
damages
19. Expert
Witness
20. Felony
21. Fraud
22. Grand Jury
23. Gross
Negligence
24. Hearsay
25. Indictment
26. Injunction
27. Interrogatories
28. Joint and
Several Liability
29. Jurisdiction
30. Mediation
31. Negligence
(define and give 4 elements)
32. Nominal
damages
33. Parol
Evidence
34. Plaintiff
35. Prima Facie
36. Probate Court
37. Proximate
Cause
38. Punitive
damages
39. Respondeat superior
40. Res Judicata
41. Sovereign
immunity
42. Stare decisis
43. Statute of frauds
44. Statute of
limitations
45. Strict
Liability
46. Subpoena duces tecum
47. Summary
Judgment
48. Tort
49. Vicarious
liability