Business Law Unit 1 Review Chapter 1

Stops something from being done

• civil law

• common law

• injunction

• precedent

Enforceable rules of conduct in a society

• laws

• ethics

• civil law

• precedent

Trade that occurs between two or more states

• intrastate commerce

• ordinance

• interstate commerce

• stare decisis

The power to decide a case

• precedent

• injunction

• jurisdiction

• ethics

Laws created by a town or city council

• common law

• ehtics

• civil law

• ordinance

Which state has it's legal system based on Roman civil law?

• Florida

• California

• Virginia

• Louisiana

At what level are laws created in the United States?

• federal government

• local government

• state government

• all of these

A panel of citizens chosen to help interpret a region's customs for a court is referred to today as a

• jury

• court

• factual panel

• agency

An open, peaceful violation of a law to protest its alleged or supposed injustice is referred to as

• ethical posturing

• civil riot

• civil disobedience

• political protest

if a state constiution and the U. S. Constitution conflict, whic prevails?

• the state constitution

• the U. S. Constitution

• neither prevails the matter is referred to Congress

• nieither prevails the matter is referred to the President