Unit 6 Vocabulary

Unit 6 Vocabulary

9th - 12th Grade

6 Qs

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Unit 6 Vocabulary

Unit 6 Vocabulary

Assessment

Quiz

History

9th - 12th Grade

Easy

Created by

Rodney Sink

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6 questions

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1.

MATCH QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Match the following

An order to appear before a judge

Tort

An agreement intended to settle a dispute

Intentional Tort

type of unintended accident that leads to injury, property damage,or financial loss.

Unintentional 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.

Summons

2.

MATCH QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Match the following

The legal responsibility for damage or injury even if you are not negligent.

Negligence

The failure to exercise a reasonable amount of care in either doing or not doing something,

Strict Liability

Legal responsibility; the obligation to do or not do something.

Duty

A legal obligation.

Liability

Harms done to people through the failure of another to exercise a certain level of care.

Negligence Tort

3.

MATCH QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Match the following

limits damages the defendant must pay to only those harms that are reasonably predictable.

“Reasonable Person”

The watchfulness, attention, caution, and prudence that a reasonable person would exercise.

Proximate Cause

Asks if the defendant should have foreseen the consequences that resulted from their action.

Foreseeability Test

The violation of a law, or obligation, either by engaging in an action or failing to act.

Standard of Care

The idealized standard of how a community expects its members toact.

Breach of Duty

4.

MATCH QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Match the following

In a civil case, the injured party who brings legal action against the alleged wrongdoer.

Contributory Negligence

The injuries or losses suffered by one person due to the fault of another

Defendant

defense in which it is determined that the plaintiff and defendant share the fault for a negligence

Damages

The person against whom a claim is made. In a civil suit, the defendant is the person being sued.

Plaintiff

a finding that the plaintiff was partly at fault and,therefore, does not deserve full compensation

Comparative Negligence

5.

MATCH QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Match the following

money the court requires a defendant to pay a winning plaintiff to make up for harm caused.

standard of proof

a party must provide evidence that is more convincing than the other side's evidence

Assumption of Risk

whereby the plaintiff is considered to have voluntarily accepted a known danger/risk.

preponderance of evidence

he level of certainty and the degree of evidence necessary to establish proof in a civil case

Compensatory damages

6.

MATCH QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Match the following

Awards in excess of the proven economic loss. Meant to punish.

Nominal Damages

What is done to compensate for an injury or to enforce some right.

Punitive Damages

A token amount of money awarded by a court to a plaintiff to show that the claim was justified

Remedy