Business Law Vocabulary

Law

• process of involving a mediator, a neutral third party, to assist negotiating a settlement
• document describing what the defendant did, or failed to do, which caused harm to the plaintiff
• system of rules which a country or community recognizes as regulations of its members
• resolve their dispute

Business Law

• body of law which applies to the rights, relations and conduct of persons and businesses engaged in commerce, merchandising, trade and sales
• both the principal and agent agreed to the agency relationship through a
• document addressing the facts and the legal claims in the complaint
• business dispute brought to a court of law for adjudication

Business Lawsuit

• resolve their dispute
• document addressing the facts and the legal claims in the complaint
• business dispute brought to a court of law for adjudication
• original work or invention which is the result of creativity

Pleadings

• written or spoken agreement which is enforceable by law
• business relationship where a principal gives legal authority to an agent to act on the principal's behalf when dealing with a third party
• business dispute brought to a court of law for adjudication
• initial papers filed by each party of the lawsuit

Complaint

• written or spoken agreement which is enforceable by law
• period of time when parties gather relevant information from each other or from third parties
• document describing what the defendant did, or failed to do, which caused harm to the plaintiff
• request to the court to issue an order

Discovery

• conduct of both parties expresses an intent to create an agency relationship
• period of time when parties gather relevant information from each other or from third parties
• one who extends or lends money or goods to an individual, business
• written or oral agreement

Deposition

• authorities who can explain technical information or validate an argument
• one borrowing from the creditor
• process of involving a mediator, a neutral third party, to assist negotiating a settlement
• method of obtaining information which occurs when witnesses are questioned under oath by the parties' attorneys

Expert Witnesses

• authorities who can explain technical information or validate an argument
• resolve their dispute
• proceeding in which the parties select an arbitrator, a neutral third party, to
• official agreement between disputing parties with the intention to resolve a

Motion

• initial papers filed by each party of the lawsuit
• third party reasonably assumes the principal granted authority to the agent
• request to the court to issue an order
• law dealing with rules for securing and enforcing legal rights to original ideas and inventions

Trial

• formal examination of evidence in a court
• authorities who can explain technical information or validate an argument
• relationship involving certain level of trust and confidence
• case