Exam 3- Mortuary Law questions with
complete solutions
Basis For Study - correct answer ✔✔ Hawke, Adam v. Murray
"The legal maxim that every person is presumed to know the law has expressly applied to
funeral director."
-To gain sufficient knowledge to act
Law - correct answer ✔✔ Rules of civil conduct
Mortuary Law - correct answer ✔✔ Mortuary Service in relation to the law
Mortuary Service - correct answer ✔✔ The science or art of disposing of the death.
Law of Admiralty - correct answer ✔✔ Law of the Sea
Talmudic Law - correct answer ✔✔ Jewish law
Roman Law - correct answer ✔✔ From the beginning of time, up until the fall of the Roman
Empire
Cannon Law - correct answer ✔✔ Catholic Church law decreed by the Pope
Napoleonic Law - correct answer ✔✔ French law from the time of Napoleon.
Anglo-Saxon Common Law - correct answer ✔✔ The basis for most American law
, Generally accepted moral standards - correct answer ✔✔ -Ten Commandments
-Golden Rule
Dead Body - correct answer ✔✔ Body of a human being.
Corpse synonymous for dead body.
Testing Death - correct answer ✔✔ -Human being
-Without life
-Not yet fully disintegrated
Death defined - correct answer ✔✔ -Life ends
-Heart stops
-Respiration stops
(Thomas V. Anderson)
Legal Medical Purposes - correct answer ✔✔ -An individual has sustained irreversible cessation
of all functioning of the brain, including the brainstem; IS DEAD.
(Lovats V District Court)
When a corpse is disintegrated or is bone... - correct answer ✔✔ ... it does NOT constitute a
dead body.
State V Glass - Ohio - correct answer ✔✔ "A cadaver is not an everlasting thing. After
undergoing an undefined degree of decomposition, it ceases to be a dead body in the eyes of
the law."
complete solutions
Basis For Study - correct answer ✔✔ Hawke, Adam v. Murray
"The legal maxim that every person is presumed to know the law has expressly applied to
funeral director."
-To gain sufficient knowledge to act
Law - correct answer ✔✔ Rules of civil conduct
Mortuary Law - correct answer ✔✔ Mortuary Service in relation to the law
Mortuary Service - correct answer ✔✔ The science or art of disposing of the death.
Law of Admiralty - correct answer ✔✔ Law of the Sea
Talmudic Law - correct answer ✔✔ Jewish law
Roman Law - correct answer ✔✔ From the beginning of time, up until the fall of the Roman
Empire
Cannon Law - correct answer ✔✔ Catholic Church law decreed by the Pope
Napoleonic Law - correct answer ✔✔ French law from the time of Napoleon.
Anglo-Saxon Common Law - correct answer ✔✔ The basis for most American law
, Generally accepted moral standards - correct answer ✔✔ -Ten Commandments
-Golden Rule
Dead Body - correct answer ✔✔ Body of a human being.
Corpse synonymous for dead body.
Testing Death - correct answer ✔✔ -Human being
-Without life
-Not yet fully disintegrated
Death defined - correct answer ✔✔ -Life ends
-Heart stops
-Respiration stops
(Thomas V. Anderson)
Legal Medical Purposes - correct answer ✔✔ -An individual has sustained irreversible cessation
of all functioning of the brain, including the brainstem; IS DEAD.
(Lovats V District Court)
When a corpse is disintegrated or is bone... - correct answer ✔✔ ... it does NOT constitute a
dead body.
State V Glass - Ohio - correct answer ✔✔ "A cadaver is not an everlasting thing. After
undergoing an undefined degree of decomposition, it ceases to be a dead body in the eyes of
the law."
