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