Business Law Crossword Puzzle

Business Law

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Holds that actions must be judged by their motives and means as well as their results

A general legal principle

Oral defamation

Intentional interference with a person's freedom of movement by unlawful confinement

The nation's highest court whose principal function is to review decisions of the Federal Courts of Appeals and the highest state courts

Conclusive on the issue of negligence (duty of care and breach)

Because society allows for the creation of corporations and gives them special rights, including a grant of limited liability, corporations owe a responsibility to society

Include one or two levels; the highest court's decisions are final except in those cases reviewed by the U.S. Supreme Court

'The thing speaks for itself;' permits the jury to infer both negligent conduct and causation

First right of the federal government to regulate matters within its powers to the possible exclusion of state regulation

Discretionary review by a higher court

Body of law originating in England and derives from judicial decisions

Final opportunity to avoid an injury

Criminal intent or mental fault

Moral actions are those that produce the greatest net pleasure compared with net pain

The power of a government to take private property for public use upon payment of fair compensation

Liability for the negligent conduct of a defendant requires that his conduct in fact caused harm to the plaintiff

Acts as a control or check by court on a particular rule or order of an administrative agency

Are separate and distinct concepts; Justice is the fair, equitable, and impartial treatment of competing interests with due regard for the common good

First Amendment protects most speech by using a strict scrutiny standard

Nontrespassory invasion of another's interest in the private use and enjoyment of his land

A rational person possesses inherent powers to assess the correctness of actions

Entire set of activities engaged in by administrative agencies while carrying out their rulemaking, enforcement, and adjudicative functions

Principle that courts should apply rules decided in prior cases in deciding substantially similar cases

Motion to dismiss for failure to state a claim

Wrongs in themselves or morally wrong

Not morally wrong but declared wrongful by law

A rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a state, commanding what is right, and prohibiting what is wrong

Formal methods by which an agency resolves disputes

Wrongful or overt act

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