Unit 6 Vocabulary

Unit 6 Vocabulary

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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

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

Match the following

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

Match the following

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

Match the following

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

Match the following

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

Match the following

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