
Unit 6 Vocabulary
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9th - 12th Grade
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1.
MATCH QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Match the following
An agreement intended to settle a dispute
Settlement
An action taken deliberately to harm another person and/or his or herproperty; intentional wrong.
Intentional Tort
type of unintended accident that leads to injury, property damage,or financial loss.
Summons
An order to appear before a judge
Unintentional Tort
A breach of some obligation, causing harm or injury to someone;
Tort
2.
MATCH QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Legal responsibility; the obligation to do or not do something.
Strict Liability
The legal responsibility for damage or injury even if you are not negligent.
Duty
Harms done to people through the failure of another to exercise a certain level of care.
Negligence
A legal obligation.
Liability
The failure to exercise a reasonable amount of care in either doing or not doing something,
Negligence Tort
3.
MATCH QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
limits damages the defendant must pay to only those harms that are reasonably predictable.
“Reasonable Person”
The idealized standard of how a community expects its members toact.
Foreseeability Test
The violation of a law, or obligation, either by engaging in an action or failing to act.
Breach of Duty
Asks if the defendant should have foreseen the consequences that resulted from their action.
Standard of Care
The watchfulness, attention, caution, and prudence that a reasonable person would exercise.
Proximate Cause
4.
MATCH QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
The injuries or losses suffered by one person due to the fault of another
Defendant
In a civil case, the injured party who brings legal action against the alleged wrongdoer.
Comparative Negligence
The person against whom a claim is made. In a civil suit, the defendant is the person being sued.
Contributory Negligence
a finding that the plaintiff was partly at fault and,therefore, does not deserve full compensation
Damages
defense in which it is determined that the plaintiff and defendant share the fault for a negligence
Plaintiff
5.
MATCH QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
whereby the plaintiff is considered to have voluntarily accepted a known danger/risk.
Compensatory damages
a party must provide evidence that is more convincing than the other side's evidence
preponderance of evidence
money the court requires a defendant to pay a winning plaintiff to make up for harm caused.
standard of proof
he level of certainty and the degree of evidence necessary to establish proof in a civil case
Assumption of Risk
6.
MATCH QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
A token amount of money awarded by a court to a plaintiff to show that the claim was justified
Nominal Damages
Awards in excess of the proven economic loss. Meant to punish.
Punitive Damages
What is done to compensate for an injury or to enforce some right.
Remedy
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