LEGL 2700 Roessing Test 1 exam 2023 with 100% correct answers

Act - correct answer -Legislation passed by congress Administrative Law - correct answer -Covers legal principles that apply to government agencies, bureaus, boards, or commisions Breach of Contract - correct answer -When one party of a contract fails to do what they agreed to Citation - correct answer -How to find a case Civil Law - correct answer -Area of law governing rights and duties between private parties as compared with criminal law- System of codifying law Codes - correct answer -Complication of legislation enacted by a federal, state, or local government **Common Law** - correct answer -Global legal system that emphasizes the role of judges in determining and interpreting the law- Deriving from judicial decisions- Judges **Compensatory Damages** - correct answer -Sanctions or damages meant to make an injured party whole by paying for the cost of their injury- Usually awarded in breach-of-contract **Conflicts in Law** - correct answer -Used to determine that substantive law applies when there is inconsistency between laws of different states or countries- which state's law applies to multi state dispute Constituion - correct answer -Set out basic framework for federal government and individual rights Constitutional Law - correct answer -Legal issues that arise from interpreting Constitution Constitutional Relativity - correct answer -Idea Constitutional interpretation is relative to time Constitution is being interpreted Contract Law - correct answer -Law of legal enforceable promises Corporate Governance - correct answer -1. How business organizations are created and managed 2.Concerns how the various levels of government regulate business organizations as they transact business Corporation - correct answer -Artificial, but legal, person created by state law- owners and managers give it high flexibility Criminal Law - correct answer -Area of law dealing with wrongs against the state **Dicta** - correct answer -Statements made in a judicial opinion that are not essential to the decision of the case (not a part of the holding and not precedential) Exemplary Damages - correct answer -Punitive Damages. Monetary compensation in excess of direct losses suffered by the plaintiff Holding - correct answer -The precise legal response in an opinion by an appellate court on an issue of law raised on appeal Intentional Tort - correct answer -Non contractual legal wrong caused by one who desires to cause the wrong or where the wrong is likely to occur from behavior Jurisprudence - correct answer -The science of the law; giving wise interpretation of the law