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CHAPTER 6 REVIEW

Let the Games Begin

Personal Injury Laws

Students will divide into 4 teams based on the seating assignments.

Each team will send one member of the group up to be questioned.

The teacher will read each question out in its entirety before the student will have an opportunity to answer.

The first person to correctly guess the answer will win the point for their team.

Instructions

If the first person does not get the answer correct, the other three teams will have an opportunity to “steal” the point for their team.

The first team to get to 10 points will win the game!

There is no such thing as second place!

GOOD LUCK!

What is a legal obligation to do or not to do something?

Answer:

Duty

What is a violation of duty called?

Answer:Breach

What is a private or civil wrong called?

Answer:

Tort

What is another word for the harm that is recognized by law?

Answer: Injury

What kind of liability occurs when one person is liable for the torts of another?

Answer:

Vicarious Liability

What kind of tort involves neither intent nor carelessness?

Answer:

Strict Liability

The proof that a breach of duty caused an injury is called __________?

Answer:

Causation

What term means that the amount of causation is great enough for it to be recognized by law?

Answer:

Proximate Cause

What kind of tort is based on carelessness?

Answer:

Negligence

An intentional tort where one person threatens to physically or offensively injure another -

Answer:

Assault

A tort that occurs when personal property is stolen -

Answer:

Conversion

A false statement about a person that injures their reputation -

Answer:

Defamation

An intentional misrepresentation of an existing fact -

Answer:

Fraud

A tort in which a person is deprived of freedom of movement -

Answer:

False Imprisonment

A type of liability that makes the defendant liable if he or she engaged in an activity that resulted in injury, regardless of whether or not he or she was negligent -

Answer:

Strict

A tort in which another’s property is entered without their consent?

Answer:

Trespass to land

An intentional tort that involves harmful or offensive touching of another?

Answer:

Battery

The duty to act with care and good judgment?

Answer:

Reasonable-person standard

A type of negligence where the plaintiff’s own actions were partial cause to the injury?

Answer:

Contributory

A type of negligence where the plaintiff knowingly subjects himself to danger?

Answer:

Assumption of Risk

A type of negligence where the plaintiff is awarded damages in proportion to his own negligence?

Answer:

Comparative

A court order for a person to do or not to do a particular act?

Answer:

Injunction

A brief outline of what the defendant and the plaintiff will try to prove?

Answer:

Opening Statements

A monetary award given to the injured party to compensate for loss?

Answer: Damages

Any object a judge allows to be presented to the jury that helps prove or disprove a case?

Answer:

Evidence

A monetary award that is set high enough to punish the defendant?

Answer:

Punitive Damages

Another name for actual damages?

Answer:

Compensatory Damage

A judge’s order that commands a witness to appear in court to testify?

Answer:

Subpeona

Statements made by witnesses under oath?

Answer:

Testimony

The decision of the jury?

Answer:

Verdict

A person who has personal knowledge of the facts of the case?

Answer:

Witness

The final result of a trial?

Answer:

Judgment

What is the name of your favorite class?

Answer: Business Law