EXAM 3- MORTUARY LAW QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT ANSWERS GRADED A+ FOR ASSURED EXCEL!!

EXAM 3- MORTUARY LAW
QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT
ANSWERS GRADED A+ FOR 2026-
2027 ASSURED EXCEL!!
Basis For Study - CORRECT ANSWERS-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 ANSWERS-Rules of civil conduct



Mortuary Law - CORRECT ANSWERS-Mortuary Service in relation to the law



Mortuary Service - CORRECT ANSWERS-The science or art of disposing of the death.



Law of Admiralty - CORRECT ANSWERS-Law of the Sea



Talmudic Law - CORRECT ANSWERS-Jewish law



Roman Law - CORRECT ANSWERS-From the beginning of time, up until the fall of the Roman
Empire



Cannon Law - CORRECT ANSWERS-Catholic Church law decreed by the Pope



Napoleonic Law - CORRECT ANSWERS-French law from the time of Napoleon.

, Anglo-Saxon Common Law - CORRECT ANSWERS-The basis for most American law



Generally accepted moral standards - CORRECT ANSWERS--Ten Commandments

-Golden Rule



Dead Body - CORRECT ANSWERS-Body of a human being.

Corpse synonymous for dead body.



Testing Death - CORRECT ANSWERS--Human being

-Without life

-Not yet fully disintegrated



Death defined - CORRECT ANSWERS--Life ends

-Heart stops

-Respiration stops

(Thomas V. Anderson)



Legal Medical Purposes - CORRECT ANSWERS--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 ANSWERS-... it does NOT constitute a
dead body.