Unit 6 Vocabulary

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

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

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

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

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

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