bus law Exam questions and answers Graded A+| 2026
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actionable - ✅✅capable of serving as the basis of a lawsuit
actual malice - ✅✅knowledge of falsity or reckless disregard for the truth
assault - ✅✅Any word or action intended to make another person fearful of
immediate physical harm; a reasonably believable threat.
assumption at risk - ✅✅A defense against negligence that can be used when
the plaintiff was aware of a danger and voluntarily assumed the risk of injury from
that danger.
battery - ✅✅The unprivileged, intentional touching of another.
business invitees - ✅✅Those people, such as customers or clients, who are
invited onto business premises by the owner of those premises for business
purposes.
causation in fact - ✅✅An act or omission without ("but for") which an event
would not have occurred.
comparative negligece - ✅✅both sides can be blamed; court figures out the
percentage based on negligence
, Compensatory Damages - ✅✅A money award equivalent to the actual value of
injuries or damages sustained by the aggrieved party.
Contributory Negligence - ✅✅even if you were a tiny bit at fault for your injury,
you get nothing
conversion - ✅✅wrongful taking, using, or retaining posession of personal
property that belongs to another
damages - ✅✅A sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury in a civil
case
defamation - ✅✅any published or publicly spoken false statement that casues
injury to anothers good name, reputation, or character
Disparagement of Property - ✅✅An economically injurious falsehood about
another's product or property.
dram shop acts - ✅✅A state statute that imposes liability on the owners of
bars and taverns, as well as those who serve alcoholic drinks to the public, for
injuries resulting from accidents caused by intoxicated persons when the sellers
or servers of alcoholic drinks contributed to the intoxication.
duty of care - ✅✅The duty of all persons, as established by tort law, to exercise
a reasonable amount of care in their dealings with others. Failure to exercise due
care, which is normally determined by the reasonable person standard,
constitutes the tort of negligence.
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actionable - ✅✅capable of serving as the basis of a lawsuit
actual malice - ✅✅knowledge of falsity or reckless disregard for the truth
assault - ✅✅Any word or action intended to make another person fearful of
immediate physical harm; a reasonably believable threat.
assumption at risk - ✅✅A defense against negligence that can be used when
the plaintiff was aware of a danger and voluntarily assumed the risk of injury from
that danger.
battery - ✅✅The unprivileged, intentional touching of another.
business invitees - ✅✅Those people, such as customers or clients, who are
invited onto business premises by the owner of those premises for business
purposes.
causation in fact - ✅✅An act or omission without ("but for") which an event
would not have occurred.
comparative negligece - ✅✅both sides can be blamed; court figures out the
percentage based on negligence
, Compensatory Damages - ✅✅A money award equivalent to the actual value of
injuries or damages sustained by the aggrieved party.
Contributory Negligence - ✅✅even if you were a tiny bit at fault for your injury,
you get nothing
conversion - ✅✅wrongful taking, using, or retaining posession of personal
property that belongs to another
damages - ✅✅A sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury in a civil
case
defamation - ✅✅any published or publicly spoken false statement that casues
injury to anothers good name, reputation, or character
Disparagement of Property - ✅✅An economically injurious falsehood about
another's product or property.
dram shop acts - ✅✅A state statute that imposes liability on the owners of
bars and taverns, as well as those who serve alcoholic drinks to the public, for
injuries resulting from accidents caused by intoxicated persons when the sellers
or servers of alcoholic drinks contributed to the intoxication.
duty of care - ✅✅The duty of all persons, as established by tort law, to exercise
a reasonable amount of care in their dealings with others. Failure to exercise due
care, which is normally determined by the reasonable person standard,
constitutes the tort of negligence.
