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| What is promisory estoppel? |
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| Being stopped from fulfilling a promise. |
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| When you have a foreign language word in a sentence how do you format it? |
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| How should legal writing be done? |
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| Formally written using actual legal terms. |
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| Before writing about a legal term, one must first do what? |
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| How does one do well in Business Law 211? |
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| You must understand, use correctly, and be familiar, with the language of law, in order to reason through legal issues. |
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| Is state law applied to the state the case takes place in or to all states? |
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| The state the case concerns is the state the law is applied to. |
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| What is the power of persuasive authority? |
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| It can guide you, but it is not legally binding. |
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| How does one know if someone is a good attorney? |
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| Non-sanctioned attorneys who were reviewed positively by referenced past consultants. |
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| What is first degree murder? |
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| What is second degree murder? |
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| Heat of the moment, reactionary murder |
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| If someone dies while a crime is being committed |
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| Why is vehicular homicide made into its own charge? |
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| The insanity plea can be used to avoid conviction of a murder charge. Being drunk is considered being legally insane. Vehicular homicide does not allow for someone to use the insanity plea of being drunk to escape a murder charge. This is how drunk drivers can be convicted for their crimes. |
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| A collection of laws each made by judges. |
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| Statutes law, in which evidence is weighed based on statutes to determine a case. |
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| What law is English and which is French? |
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| Common law is English and Civil Code is French. |
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| What charge can a murder charge be lowered to thanks to the insanity plea? |
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| What is the glass jaw syndrome? |
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| Given the circumstances the injury to the victim is enough for the charge to stand. |
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| R&D for pharmaceutical companies are paid for by what? |
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| How can the patents of pharmaceuticals be extended? |
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| Patenting the pharmaceutical with an additional use. |
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| A wrong one can sue for monetary gain. It is a french term. |
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| What is the point of liability? |
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| When you make a statement without referring to it as being an opinion you are doing what? |
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| What do you do if you want a statement to be taken as fact? |
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| Add a citation afterward to the original documented source. |
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| What are examples of primary sources you can use in Business Law 211? |
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Court Cases
Census Data
Research Journal Articles
White Papers (Sometimes) |
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