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In order to provide stability to a legal system, courts deciding similar new cases. These prior cases are known as what?

• Precedents

• Equity

• Jurisdiction

• Statutes

If the state constitution and the Us constitution conflict which prevails

• State constitution

• Neither prevails the matter is referred to congress

• U.S. constitution

• Neither the matter is referred to the president

What type of law allows for flexibility in the legal system

• Jurisdictional law

• Sovereign law

• Common law

• Positive law

The courts of equity were created to handle that the blank courts could not

• Jurisdictional

• property

• Common law

• Appellate

Which of these are based on current standards of people

• Civil law

• Positive law

• Codes

• Common law

Which of these terms describes using prior cases as guides for deciding similar new cases

• Injunction

• Code

• Precedents

• Jurisdiction

Meryle Ann's mother recently died and, unfortunately, did not leave any type of will for her estate. In order to properly divide her mother's estate among her and her brothers, Meryle Ann will hire a lawyer to handle this case. In which specialty area should she seek to find a lawyer?

• Criminal law

• Statutory law

• Civil law

• Case law

The panel of citizens chosen to help interpret a region's customs for a court is referred to today as a(n)

• Jury

• Agency

• Factual panel

• Court

The power to decide a case is termed

• Fiat

• The long arm of the law

• Sanction

• Jurisdiction

In order to produce stability in a society, its laws should have two qualities: ____________ and ___________.