Match the following
Unit 6 Vocabulary

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