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LEGL2700 Hackleman Exam 3 Questions With
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Law - answers✔✔A formal social force established by the government that must be enforced
to actually matter
Rule of Law - answers✔✔Laws that are made are generally and equally applicable
Property - answers✔✔The right of ownership given to a citizen; a "legal fence"
Public - answers✔✔Examples of this type of property are roads, schools, monuments, and
parks
Private - answers✔✔Examples of this type of property are individually owned cars or houses
Common - answers✔✔Examples of this type of property are neighborhood pools and tennis
courts
Criminal Law - answers✔✔Type of law that provides public protection for private resources
and punishes those who harm them
Tort Law - answers✔✔Type of law that protects and compensates owners through private
civil lawsuits when their resources, including those they have in themselves, are wrongfully
harmed by the actions of others
Law of Business Organizations - answers✔✔Type of law that identifies how individuals can
own and use resources in groups; includes corporate governance
Contract Law - answers✔✔Type of law that determines how resources, including labor, are
exchanged between owners; selling and purchasing anything
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Constitutional Law - answers✔✔Type of law that establishes the framework of the state
whose purpose is to protect property in its broadest sense; interpreting or applying the US or
state constitution
Administrative and Regulatory Law - answers✔✔Type of law that concerns public laws that
protect, tax, regulate, or redistribute an owner's resource; principles applying to government
agencies
Jurisprudence - answers✔✔How judges have interpreted what the law says
Natural Law - answers✔✔Jurisprudence that says if a law is against nature, then it's not going
to stand
Positive Law - answers✔✔Jurisprudence that says the government can make any kind of law
it wants to even if it's not morally right (slavery)
Historical School - answers✔✔Jurisprudence that says laws are based off of difference
cultures and traditions, so they're bound to be different in different countries
Sociological - answers✔✔Jurisprudence that says laws have to change with the times
(technology, 2nd amendment)
Legal Realism - answers✔✔Jurisprudence that says it's only a law if it's actually enforced (55
mph on 285)
Common Law System - answers✔✔Emphasizes the roles of judges in determining the law
and the precedents set by previous judges
Civil Law System - answers✔✔Focuses on statute in place and doesn't care what other judges
have come up with when looking at an individual case
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Public Law - answers✔✔Type of law that refers to matters that involve the regulation of
society as opposed to individuals interacting
Private Law - answers✔✔Type of law that covers legal problems and issues that concern
your private resource relationships with other people
Civil - answers✔✔Type of law that address rights between two persons
Criminal - answers✔✔Type of law that addresses wrongs of society
Substantive - answers✔✔Category of law describing the question you need answered
Procedural - answers✔✔Category of law describing the procedure needed to get to the actual
issue
Legislation - answers✔✔Laws passed by Congress; also called acts or statutes
Codes - answers✔✔Collections of legislation, often on the same subject
Ordinances - answers✔✔Laws that are enforced only in certain cities or counties
Opinion - answers✔✔A decision that a judge has made on a particular case
Reporter - answers✔✔A collection of opinions published in book volumes
Precedent - answers✔✔Opinions from past cases and legal issues that are used to judge
current cases
Stare Decisis - answers✔✔Says judges should follow precedents whenever possible
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Holding - answers✔✔The precise information coming from that court that explicitly answers
the question that was asked
Dicta - answers✔✔Other opinions that do not explicitly answer the question that was asked
Constitutional Relativity - answers✔✔The idea that courts should understand the meaning of
the Constitution relative to the times in which they interpret it
Originalism - answers✔✔The idea that courts should interpret the Constitution only
according to the intentions of those who wrote it
Conflicts of Law - answers✔✔Rules that are applied often when there are disagreements
between parties in different states
Sanction - answers✔✔Method used by law enforcement officials and courts to encourage
obedience of or force compliance with the law
Remedy - answers✔✔Rights of an individual to take another person's resources as that
person failed to meet the requirements of law
Breach of Contract - answers✔✔When one party of a contract fails to do what he or she
agreed to do
Consequential Damages - answers✔✔The result of a breach of contract that makes up for
further loss resulting from the original losses
Compensatory Damages - answers✔✔The result of a breach of contract that makes up for the
original loss
07/11/2024 3:20PM
LEGL2700 Hackleman Exam 3 Questions With
Correct Answers
Law - answers✔✔A formal social force established by the government that must be enforced
to actually matter
Rule of Law - answers✔✔Laws that are made are generally and equally applicable
Property - answers✔✔The right of ownership given to a citizen; a "legal fence"
Public - answers✔✔Examples of this type of property are roads, schools, monuments, and
parks
Private - answers✔✔Examples of this type of property are individually owned cars or houses
Common - answers✔✔Examples of this type of property are neighborhood pools and tennis
courts
Criminal Law - answers✔✔Type of law that provides public protection for private resources
and punishes those who harm them
Tort Law - answers✔✔Type of law that protects and compensates owners through private
civil lawsuits when their resources, including those they have in themselves, are wrongfully
harmed by the actions of others
Law of Business Organizations - answers✔✔Type of law that identifies how individuals can
own and use resources in groups; includes corporate governance
Contract Law - answers✔✔Type of law that determines how resources, including labor, are
exchanged between owners; selling and purchasing anything
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Constitutional Law - answers✔✔Type of law that establishes the framework of the state
whose purpose is to protect property in its broadest sense; interpreting or applying the US or
state constitution
Administrative and Regulatory Law - answers✔✔Type of law that concerns public laws that
protect, tax, regulate, or redistribute an owner's resource; principles applying to government
agencies
Jurisprudence - answers✔✔How judges have interpreted what the law says
Natural Law - answers✔✔Jurisprudence that says if a law is against nature, then it's not going
to stand
Positive Law - answers✔✔Jurisprudence that says the government can make any kind of law
it wants to even if it's not morally right (slavery)
Historical School - answers✔✔Jurisprudence that says laws are based off of difference
cultures and traditions, so they're bound to be different in different countries
Sociological - answers✔✔Jurisprudence that says laws have to change with the times
(technology, 2nd amendment)
Legal Realism - answers✔✔Jurisprudence that says it's only a law if it's actually enforced (55
mph on 285)
Common Law System - answers✔✔Emphasizes the roles of judges in determining the law
and the precedents set by previous judges
Civil Law System - answers✔✔Focuses on statute in place and doesn't care what other judges
have come up with when looking at an individual case
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Public Law - answers✔✔Type of law that refers to matters that involve the regulation of
society as opposed to individuals interacting
Private Law - answers✔✔Type of law that covers legal problems and issues that concern
your private resource relationships with other people
Civil - answers✔✔Type of law that address rights between two persons
Criminal - answers✔✔Type of law that addresses wrongs of society
Substantive - answers✔✔Category of law describing the question you need answered
Procedural - answers✔✔Category of law describing the procedure needed to get to the actual
issue
Legislation - answers✔✔Laws passed by Congress; also called acts or statutes
Codes - answers✔✔Collections of legislation, often on the same subject
Ordinances - answers✔✔Laws that are enforced only in certain cities or counties
Opinion - answers✔✔A decision that a judge has made on a particular case
Reporter - answers✔✔A collection of opinions published in book volumes
Precedent - answers✔✔Opinions from past cases and legal issues that are used to judge
current cases
Stare Decisis - answers✔✔Says judges should follow precedents whenever possible
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Holding - answers✔✔The precise information coming from that court that explicitly answers
the question that was asked
Dicta - answers✔✔Other opinions that do not explicitly answer the question that was asked
Constitutional Relativity - answers✔✔The idea that courts should understand the meaning of
the Constitution relative to the times in which they interpret it
Originalism - answers✔✔The idea that courts should interpret the Constitution only
according to the intentions of those who wrote it
Conflicts of Law - answers✔✔Rules that are applied often when there are disagreements
between parties in different states
Sanction - answers✔✔Method used by law enforcement officials and courts to encourage
obedience of or force compliance with the law
Remedy - answers✔✔Rights of an individual to take another person's resources as that
person failed to meet the requirements of law
Breach of Contract - answers✔✔When one party of a contract fails to do what he or she
agreed to do
Consequential Damages - answers✔✔The result of a breach of contract that makes up for
further loss resulting from the original losses
Compensatory Damages - answers✔✔The result of a breach of contract that makes up for the
original loss
