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Act
✓ Legislation passed by congress
Administrative Law
✓ Covers legal principles that apply to government agencies, bureaus,
boards, or commisions
Breach of Contract
✓ When one party of a contract fails to do what they agreed to
Citation
✓ How to find a case
Civil Law
✓ Area of law governing rights and duties between private parties as
compared with criminal law- System of codifying law
Codes
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✓ Complication of legislation enacted by a federal, state, or local
government
**Common Law**
✓ Global legal system that emphasizes the role of judges in determining
and interpreting the law-
✓ Deriving from judicial decisions- Judges
**Compensatory Damages**
✓ Sanctions or damages meant to make an injured party whole by
paying for the cost of their injury- Usually awarded in breach-of-
contract
**Conflicts in Law**
✓ Used to determine that substantive law applies when there is
inconsistency between laws of different states or countries- which
state's law applies to multi state dispute
Constituion
✓ Set out basic framework for federal government and individual rights
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Constitutional Law
✓ Legal issues that arise from interpreting Constitution
Constitutional Relativity
✓ Idea Constitutional interpretation is relative to time Constitution is being
interpreted
Contract Law
✓ Law of legal enforceable promises
Corporate Governance
✓ 1. How business organizations are created and managed
✓ 2.Concerns how the various levels of government regulate business
organizations as they transact business
Corporation
✓ Artificial, but legal, person created by state law- owners and managers
give it high flexibility
Criminal Law
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✓ Area of law dealing with wrongs against the state
**Dicta**
✓ Statements made in a judicial opinion that are not essential to the
decision of the case (not a part of the holding and not precedential)
Exemplary Damages
✓ Punitive Damages. Monetary compensation in excess of direct losses
suffered by the plaintiff
Holding
✓ The precise legal response in an opinion by an appellate court on an
issue of law raised on appeal
Intentional Tort
✓ Non contractual legal wrong caused by one who desires to cause the
wrong or where the wrong is likely to occur from behavior
Jurisprudence
✓ The science of the law; giving wise interpretation of the law
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