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Survival statute
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A wrongful act or an omission, other than a crime or a reach of contract, that invades a
1
legally protected right
A rule used to determine proximate cause when a plaintiff's harm is the natural and
2 probable consequence of the defendant's wrongful act and when an ordinarily
reasonable person would have foreseen the harm
An obligation imposed by law for the preservation of the legally protected rights of
3
others
, A statute that preserves the right of a person's estate to recover damages that person
4
sustained between the time of injury and death
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Terms in this set (111)
A wrongful act or an omission, other Tort
than a crime or a reach of contract,
that invades a legally protected right
A person or organization that has Tortfeasor
committed a tort
The person or entity who files a Plaintiff
lawsuit and is named as a party
The party in a lawsuit against whom a Defendant
complaint is filed
An obligation imposed by law for the Legal duty
preservation of the legally protected
rights of others
A written law passed by a legislative Statute
body, at either the federal or state
level
Laws that develop out of court Common law (case law)
decision in particular cases and
establish precedents for future cases
, A standard for the degree of care Reasonable person test
exercised in a situation that is
measured by what a reasonable
cautious person would or would not
do under similar circumstances
Airlines, railroads, or trucking Common carriers
companies that furnish transportation
to any member of the public seeking
their offered services
A cause that, in a natural and Proximate cause
continuous sequence unbroken by
any new and independent cause,
produces an event and without
which the event would not have
happened
A rule used to determine whether a "But for" rule
defendant's act was the proximate
cause of a plaintiff's harm based on
the determination that the plaintiff's
harm could not have occurred but
for the defendant's act
A rule used to determine proximate Substantial factor rule
cause of a loss by determining which
of the acts are significant factors in
causing the harm
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Survival statute
Choose an answer
A wrongful act or an omission, other than a crime or a reach of contract, that invades a
1
legally protected right
A rule used to determine proximate cause when a plaintiff's harm is the natural and
2 probable consequence of the defendant's wrongful act and when an ordinarily
reasonable person would have foreseen the harm
An obligation imposed by law for the preservation of the legally protected rights of
3
others
, A statute that preserves the right of a person's estate to recover damages that person
4
sustained between the time of injury and death
Don't know?
Terms in this set (111)
A wrongful act or an omission, other Tort
than a crime or a reach of contract,
that invades a legally protected right
A person or organization that has Tortfeasor
committed a tort
The person or entity who files a Plaintiff
lawsuit and is named as a party
The party in a lawsuit against whom a Defendant
complaint is filed
An obligation imposed by law for the Legal duty
preservation of the legally protected
rights of others
A written law passed by a legislative Statute
body, at either the federal or state
level
Laws that develop out of court Common law (case law)
decision in particular cases and
establish precedents for future cases
, A standard for the degree of care Reasonable person test
exercised in a situation that is
measured by what a reasonable
cautious person would or would not
do under similar circumstances
Airlines, railroads, or trucking Common carriers
companies that furnish transportation
to any member of the public seeking
their offered services
A cause that, in a natural and Proximate cause
continuous sequence unbroken by
any new and independent cause,
produces an event and without
which the event would not have
happened
A rule used to determine whether a "But for" rule
defendant's act was the proximate
cause of a plaintiff's harm based on
the determination that the plaintiff's
harm could not have occurred but
for the defendant's act
A rule used to determine proximate Substantial factor rule
cause of a loss by determining which
of the acts are significant factors in
causing the harm
