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Unit 6 Vocabulary

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9th - 12th Grade

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Unit 6 Vocabulary
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1.

MATCH QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Match the following

An order to appear before a judge

Unintentional Tort

An agreement intended to settle a dispute

Intentional Tort

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

Tort

An action taken deliberately to harm another person and/or his or herproperty; intentional wrong.

Settlement

A breach of some obligation, causing harm or injury to someone;

Summons

2.

MATCH QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Match the following

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

Negligence

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

Liability

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

Duty

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

Strict Liability

A legal obligation.

Negligence Tort

3.

MATCH QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Match the following

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

“Reasonable Person”

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

Proximate Cause

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

Standard of Care

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

Breach of Duty

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

Foreseeability Test

4.

MATCH QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Match the following

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

Plaintiff

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

Damages

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

Contributory Negligence

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

Defendant

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

Comparative Negligence

5.

MATCH QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Match the following

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

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

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

Compensatory damages

6.

MATCH QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Match the following

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

Nominal Damages

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

Remedy

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

Punitive Damages

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