LOMA 311 Exam 2025 Questions
and Answers
Trial Courts. Each state court system has only one supreme court. - ✔✔Each state court
system includes a variety of __________ __________ ?
District Courts. - ✔✔In the U.S. Federal court system, the trial courts that sit in every
state and territory are known as __________ __________ ?
District Courts. - ✔✔__________ __________ act as trial courts with jurisdiction to hear
only specific types of cases as set out in the constitution and various federal laws.
State Supreme Court - ✔✔The court that has the authority to review the decisions of the
lower appellate court in a state court system.
Judge - ✔✔In each state court system, a trial court is presided over by a judicial officer,
who is general called a __________.
Supreme Court - ✔✔The court that primarily reviews cases that involve a matter of
national importance, such as cases that involve the U.S. Constitution or in which two or
more lower courts have reached different results.
Tort - ✔✔A private wrong - other than breach of contract - for which the law provides a
remedy to the wronged party. Focuses on compensating the victims rather than
punishing the wrongdoers.
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,Torts - ✔✔Examples of this include assault, battery, slander, libel, fraudulent
misrepresentation, inducing a breach of contract, and trespassing on land.
Legal - ✔✔__________ remedies primarily involve the payment of money damages to
injured parties.
Equitable - ✔✔__________ remedies were created by the courts to provide new
remedies for cases in which money damages were inadequate to remedy some wrongs.
Restitution - ✔✔__________ is sometimes a legal remedy and sometimes an equitable
remedy. The basic purpose is to prevent unjust enrichment; a person should not be
allowed to profit or be enriched as a result of a wrong committed at the expense of
another person.
Judicial Branch - ✔✔This branch of government in a jurisdiction performs the function
of applying and interpreting the jurisdiction's laws.
Legislative Branch - ✔✔This branch of government consists of one or more bodies that
are responsible for enacting laws to govern the applicable jurisdiction.
Executive Branch - ✔✔This branch of government consists of a number of agencies or
ministries that are responsible for administering, enforcing, or carrying out the
jurisdiction's laws.
Parliamentary Democracy - ✔✔In this organization of government, the legislative
branch of government has ultimate authority for making all laws.
Federal System of Government - ✔✔In this organization of government, a federal
government and a number of lower level governments share governmental powers. In
other words, a group of sovereign states have agreed to unify as a nation.
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, Department of Justice - ✔✔The federal administrative agency that is responsible for
enforcing federal criminal laws, representing the U.S. in federal cases, and providing
legal advice to other federal officials and departments.
Department of the Treasury - ✔✔A federal administrative agency that has primary
responsibility for administering federal banking and tax laws.
The Office of the Secretary of State - ✔✔A state administrative agency that is
responsible for licensing corporations and businesses.
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) - ✔✔The federal agency that administers
federal laws governing securities and the investment industry.
Statutory Law - ✔✔Laws enacted by a legislature create the body of law known as?
Statutes - ✔✔Laws that declare, command, or prohibit something.
Legislative, Executive - ✔✔In the U.S. and many other jurisdictions, the __________
branch enact statutes in relatively general terms and delegate authority to the
__________ branch to fill in the details of the law.
Regulations - ✔✔Rules or orders that are issued by administrative agencies and that
have the same force and effect as statutes. These rules or orders make up the type of law
known as administrative law.
Civil Law - ✔✔A legal system based on the Roman legal system in which the laws are
codified into written codes enacted by legislature.
Common Law - ✔✔A legal system that is an unwritten body of general principles and
rules of law developed and followed by the course that is based on the law of England.
Supreme Court - ✔✔The U.S.'s highest court; it hears only appeals from lower courts
and cases involving any of the states or a foreign official, such as an ambassador.
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and Answers
Trial Courts. Each state court system has only one supreme court. - ✔✔Each state court
system includes a variety of __________ __________ ?
District Courts. - ✔✔In the U.S. Federal court system, the trial courts that sit in every
state and territory are known as __________ __________ ?
District Courts. - ✔✔__________ __________ act as trial courts with jurisdiction to hear
only specific types of cases as set out in the constitution and various federal laws.
State Supreme Court - ✔✔The court that has the authority to review the decisions of the
lower appellate court in a state court system.
Judge - ✔✔In each state court system, a trial court is presided over by a judicial officer,
who is general called a __________.
Supreme Court - ✔✔The court that primarily reviews cases that involve a matter of
national importance, such as cases that involve the U.S. Constitution or in which two or
more lower courts have reached different results.
Tort - ✔✔A private wrong - other than breach of contract - for which the law provides a
remedy to the wronged party. Focuses on compensating the victims rather than
punishing the wrongdoers.
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,Torts - ✔✔Examples of this include assault, battery, slander, libel, fraudulent
misrepresentation, inducing a breach of contract, and trespassing on land.
Legal - ✔✔__________ remedies primarily involve the payment of money damages to
injured parties.
Equitable - ✔✔__________ remedies were created by the courts to provide new
remedies for cases in which money damages were inadequate to remedy some wrongs.
Restitution - ✔✔__________ is sometimes a legal remedy and sometimes an equitable
remedy. The basic purpose is to prevent unjust enrichment; a person should not be
allowed to profit or be enriched as a result of a wrong committed at the expense of
another person.
Judicial Branch - ✔✔This branch of government in a jurisdiction performs the function
of applying and interpreting the jurisdiction's laws.
Legislative Branch - ✔✔This branch of government consists of one or more bodies that
are responsible for enacting laws to govern the applicable jurisdiction.
Executive Branch - ✔✔This branch of government consists of a number of agencies or
ministries that are responsible for administering, enforcing, or carrying out the
jurisdiction's laws.
Parliamentary Democracy - ✔✔In this organization of government, the legislative
branch of government has ultimate authority for making all laws.
Federal System of Government - ✔✔In this organization of government, a federal
government and a number of lower level governments share governmental powers. In
other words, a group of sovereign states have agreed to unify as a nation.
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, Department of Justice - ✔✔The federal administrative agency that is responsible for
enforcing federal criminal laws, representing the U.S. in federal cases, and providing
legal advice to other federal officials and departments.
Department of the Treasury - ✔✔A federal administrative agency that has primary
responsibility for administering federal banking and tax laws.
The Office of the Secretary of State - ✔✔A state administrative agency that is
responsible for licensing corporations and businesses.
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) - ✔✔The federal agency that administers
federal laws governing securities and the investment industry.
Statutory Law - ✔✔Laws enacted by a legislature create the body of law known as?
Statutes - ✔✔Laws that declare, command, or prohibit something.
Legislative, Executive - ✔✔In the U.S. and many other jurisdictions, the __________
branch enact statutes in relatively general terms and delegate authority to the
__________ branch to fill in the details of the law.
Regulations - ✔✔Rules or orders that are issued by administrative agencies and that
have the same force and effect as statutes. These rules or orders make up the type of law
known as administrative law.
Civil Law - ✔✔A legal system based on the Roman legal system in which the laws are
codified into written codes enacted by legislature.
Common Law - ✔✔A legal system that is an unwritten body of general principles and
rules of law developed and followed by the course that is based on the law of England.
Supreme Court - ✔✔The U.S.'s highest court; it hears only appeals from lower courts
and cases involving any of the states or a foreign official, such as an ambassador.
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