Bus Law Q1 Vocab

the action of working with someone to produce or create something.

• Collaboration
• Team Bonding
• Communication
• Team Building
• Common Law

the process of organizing and planning how to divide your time between different activities

• Skilled Labor
• Time Management
• Impartiality
• Ethics
• Policy

torts for which the defendant intended either the injury or act.

• Libel
• Misdemeanor
• Tort
• Intentional torts
• Accident

false written statements that harm a person's reputation or good name.

• Libel
• Slander
• False Accusations
• Gossip
• Communication

the exchange (as by speech or letter) of information between persons

• Collaboration
• Communication
• Common Law
• Libel
• Understanding

the person who brings a lawsuit against another.

• Honorary
• Defendant
• Witness
• Plaintiff
• Judge

the person against whom a lawsuit is brought or who is charged with a violation of the law.

• Defendant
• Witness
• Libel
• Plaintiff
• Juror

primary source of law in the U.S., contains the principles and ideals that protect individual liberty, property and freedom, which serves as the foundation for all other established laws.  

• Stare Decisis
• Precedent
• Common Law
• Constitutional law
• Executive Order

false spoken statements or actions that damage a person's reputation or good name.

• communication
• libel
• slander
• false witness
• offensive

is Latin for “to stand by things decided.” In short, it is the doctrine of precedent. Courts cite to this when an issue has been previously brought to the court and a ruling already issued.

• Actus Reus
• Stare Decisis
• Mens Rea
• Carpe Diem
• Ad Nauseam