LEB 320F EXAM 1 FINAL PAPER
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
GRADED A+ STUDY MATERIAL
●● Law
Answer: A binding custom or practice of a community
Domain of law is everywhere.
- Medicine
- Banking
- Grumpy Neighbors
- Intellectual Property
- Gov't
- Family
●● Areas of Law
Answer: Lawyers specialize in one (maybe two) areas.
Can't expect an attorney to know anything about another specialization.
●● Requisites of Legal System
Answer: 1. Certainty (stability)
,2. Flexibility (technology)
3. Knowability (lawers)
4. Reasonableness (like justice, it must adapt to changing views)
●● Common Law
Answer: "Case Law"
- Laws that result from judicial decisions, not legislature
●● Statutory Law
Answer: - Rules that have been formally adopted by legislative bodies
rather than by the courts
●● Civil Law
Answer: Laws that spell out the rights and duties amongst individuals,
business firms and sometimes gov't agencies
●● Plaintiff
Answer: Person bringing action
●● Defendant
Answer: Person/entity against whom Plaintiff is making a claim
●● Criminal Law
, Answer: Statues by which a state or the federal gov't prohibits specified
kinds of conduct
- fines or imprisonment for those who violate
- ALWAYS brought by the government.
●● Confusion with Criminal
Answer: ALWAYS brought by the government.
- Higher burden of proof to take away liberties
●● Summary Judgement
Answer: A ruling by the court that no trial is necessary because some
essential facts are not in dispute
●● Remand
Answer: to send a case back to a lower court to be tried again
●● Vacate
Answer: Throw ruling out, shouldn't have happened
●● Affirm
Answer: We agree
●● Reverse
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
GRADED A+ STUDY MATERIAL
●● Law
Answer: A binding custom or practice of a community
Domain of law is everywhere.
- Medicine
- Banking
- Grumpy Neighbors
- Intellectual Property
- Gov't
- Family
●● Areas of Law
Answer: Lawyers specialize in one (maybe two) areas.
Can't expect an attorney to know anything about another specialization.
●● Requisites of Legal System
Answer: 1. Certainty (stability)
,2. Flexibility (technology)
3. Knowability (lawers)
4. Reasonableness (like justice, it must adapt to changing views)
●● Common Law
Answer: "Case Law"
- Laws that result from judicial decisions, not legislature
●● Statutory Law
Answer: - Rules that have been formally adopted by legislative bodies
rather than by the courts
●● Civil Law
Answer: Laws that spell out the rights and duties amongst individuals,
business firms and sometimes gov't agencies
●● Plaintiff
Answer: Person bringing action
●● Defendant
Answer: Person/entity against whom Plaintiff is making a claim
●● Criminal Law
, Answer: Statues by which a state or the federal gov't prohibits specified
kinds of conduct
- fines or imprisonment for those who violate
- ALWAYS brought by the government.
●● Confusion with Criminal
Answer: ALWAYS brought by the government.
- Higher burden of proof to take away liberties
●● Summary Judgement
Answer: A ruling by the court that no trial is necessary because some
essential facts are not in dispute
●● Remand
Answer: to send a case back to a lower court to be tried again
●● Vacate
Answer: Throw ruling out, shouldn't have happened
●● Affirm
Answer: We agree
●● Reverse
