LEGALS TEST 1 EXAM SCRIPT 2026
QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS GRADED A+
◉ . Answer: laws are made generally and equally applicable. they apply
to all or most members of society
◉ property. Answer: the right to turn to public authorities like the police
or the courts to help you keep others from interfering with what you
own. allows you to exclude others from something without your
persmission.
◉ common property. Answer: resources like land that more than one
individual owns jointly
◉ contract law. Answer: enables an owner to exchange resources,
especially at a future date.
◉ tort law. Answer: compensates owners who resources are wrongfully
harmed by the actions of others. often but not always requires actual
injurt to the owners resources.
◉ criminal law. Answer: punishes those who harm an owners resources
in particular ways
,◉ law of cooperate governance and business organizations. Answer:
identifies how individuals can own and use resources in groups
◉ Jurisprudence. Answer: the philosophy of law
◉ Natural law. Answer: Aristotle. law contains universal moral
principles. determine them through human reason.
◉ positive law. Answer: the commands of the state backed up by force
and punishments. contrary to natural law.
◉ historical school. Answer: emphasizes that contemporary law should
focus on legal principles that have withstood the test of time in a nation.
reflects the cultural traditions of peole, and recognizes that different
natons may have different traditions, consequently, different laws.
◉ sociological jurisprudence. Answer: supports the idea that law can and
should change to meet new devoplements in soceity.
◉ legal realism. Answer: goes beyond just the word of law to examine
what police, adminstrators, presecutors, and judges are actually doing as
they enforce, interpret, and apply laws.
◉ common law and civil law. Answer: the world has two major legal
systems:
, ◉ common law. Answer: legal system that emphasizes the role of judges
in determining the meaning of laws and howo they apply. established by
the royal monarch who appointed royal judges to ride circuits around the
english country side to resolve disputes in the name of the king or queen
and they literally wrote the law.
◉ civil law. Answer: relies more on legislation than judicial decisions to
determine what the law is. courts decide the fcats in a disputed case. they
do not make law nor do judges think themselves obligated to follwo
prior judical decisons, but they do refer to "settled" cases.
◉ -common law
-civil law. Answer: judges play a much more important role in
determining law and its meaning in ____ nations than in _____ nations.
◉ public law. Answer: includes matters that involve the regulation of
society. a government official represents society, or "the people," and the
offcial is responsible for seeking justice to acheve the ends of society.
◉ constitutional law. Answer: involves the interpretation and application
of either the federal or state constitutions
◉ administrative law. Answer: covers legal principles that apply to
government agencies, bureaus, boards, and commisions
QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS GRADED A+
◉ . Answer: laws are made generally and equally applicable. they apply
to all or most members of society
◉ property. Answer: the right to turn to public authorities like the police
or the courts to help you keep others from interfering with what you
own. allows you to exclude others from something without your
persmission.
◉ common property. Answer: resources like land that more than one
individual owns jointly
◉ contract law. Answer: enables an owner to exchange resources,
especially at a future date.
◉ tort law. Answer: compensates owners who resources are wrongfully
harmed by the actions of others. often but not always requires actual
injurt to the owners resources.
◉ criminal law. Answer: punishes those who harm an owners resources
in particular ways
,◉ law of cooperate governance and business organizations. Answer:
identifies how individuals can own and use resources in groups
◉ Jurisprudence. Answer: the philosophy of law
◉ Natural law. Answer: Aristotle. law contains universal moral
principles. determine them through human reason.
◉ positive law. Answer: the commands of the state backed up by force
and punishments. contrary to natural law.
◉ historical school. Answer: emphasizes that contemporary law should
focus on legal principles that have withstood the test of time in a nation.
reflects the cultural traditions of peole, and recognizes that different
natons may have different traditions, consequently, different laws.
◉ sociological jurisprudence. Answer: supports the idea that law can and
should change to meet new devoplements in soceity.
◉ legal realism. Answer: goes beyond just the word of law to examine
what police, adminstrators, presecutors, and judges are actually doing as
they enforce, interpret, and apply laws.
◉ common law and civil law. Answer: the world has two major legal
systems:
, ◉ common law. Answer: legal system that emphasizes the role of judges
in determining the meaning of laws and howo they apply. established by
the royal monarch who appointed royal judges to ride circuits around the
english country side to resolve disputes in the name of the king or queen
and they literally wrote the law.
◉ civil law. Answer: relies more on legislation than judicial decisions to
determine what the law is. courts decide the fcats in a disputed case. they
do not make law nor do judges think themselves obligated to follwo
prior judical decisons, but they do refer to "settled" cases.
◉ -common law
-civil law. Answer: judges play a much more important role in
determining law and its meaning in ____ nations than in _____ nations.
◉ public law. Answer: includes matters that involve the regulation of
society. a government official represents society, or "the people," and the
offcial is responsible for seeking justice to acheve the ends of society.
◉ constitutional law. Answer: involves the interpretation and application
of either the federal or state constitutions
◉ administrative law. Answer: covers legal principles that apply to
government agencies, bureaus, boards, and commisions
