2. BUSINESS LAW JEOPARDY

3. 500 400 300 200 100 All About Contracts Contract Formation Civil Procedure TORTSTHE “LAW”

4. Categories System of jurisprudence which originated in England; based on judicial precedent

5. Categories Common Law

6. Categories Laws enacted by a legislative body

7. Categories Statutory Law

8. Categories Body of law created by agencies, such as the SEC and FTC, in the form of rules, regulations, orders, and decisions

9. Categories Administrative Law

10. Categories Rules of law announced in court decisions

11. Categories Case Law

12. Categories Defines wrongful actions against society for which society demands redress

13. Categories Criminal Law

14. Categories The failure to exercise the standard of care that a reasonable person would have exercised under the circumstances

15. Categories Negligence

16. Categories The unprivileged, intentional touching of another

17. Categories Battery

18. Categories “But for” cause

19. Categories Actual Cause

20. Categories A concept used to determine whether a P’s injury was the natural and continuous result of a D’s negligence Torts 400 Points

21. Categories Proximate Cause

22. Categories An action intended to make another person fearful of immediate physical harm

23. Categories Assault

24. Categories The initial pleading in a lawsuit, alleging the facts which constitute the P’s cause of action

25. Categories Complaint

26. Categories Written questions propounded to another party to be answered under oath

27. Categories Interrogatories

28. Categories The aptly named process by which the parties discover the true facts of the case

29. Categories Discovery

30. Categories The geographic location where a lawsuit should be heard

31. Categories Venue

32. Categories A court’s power to hear and determine a particular case

33. Categories Jurisdiction

34. Categories A proposal manifesting present intention to contract

35. Categories Offer

36. Categories The offeree’s notification to the offeror that the offeree agrees to be bound by the terms of the offer

37. Categories Acceptance

38. Categories The value given in return for a promise

39. Categories Consideration

40. Categories Requires that certain types of contracts be evidenced by a writing in order to be enforceable

41. Categories Statute of Frauds

42. Categories Test used to determine whether the parties had the intention to contract

43. Categories Objective test (or reasonable person test)

44. Categories What minors and insane people lack

45. Categories Contractual Capacity

46. Categories This equitable doctrine may be applied when one party has detrimentally relied on another party’s promise

47. Categories Promissory Estoppel

48. Categories Arises when one party pays consideration in exchange for the promise not to revoke

49. Categories Option Contract

50. Categories Created when a merchant, in a signed writing, promises to leave an offer open

51. Categories Merchant’s Firm Offer

52. Categories Misrepresentation of a material fact to induce the other party to enter into a contract

53. Categories Fraud

54. Categories FINAL JEOPARDY The Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court

55. Categories DAILY DOUBLE!