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Question 1

Executed contract:

Answer 1

a contract fully performed by both parties

Question 2

Expert witness about:

Answer 2

a witness achieving “special knowledge” of the subject which they will testify

Question 3

Exposure event:

Answer 3

an occurrence which may result in liability

Question 4

Filing:

Answer 4

placing a document into the possession of the court for inclusion in the file of a case

Question 5

Fraud:

Answer 5

intentional deception resulting in injury to another

Question 6

Garnishment:

Answer 6

the process in which money or goods in the hands of a third person which are due a defendant are attached by the plaintiff

Question 7

Ignorantia legis non excusat:

Answer 7

ignorance of the law is no excuse

Question 8

Imputed liability:

Answer 8

where one is held liable for the conduct of another, because the other person is the agent or employee of the person of the person who is held ultimately responsible

Question 9

Inculpatory:

Answer 9

that which tends to incriminate

Question 10

Indemnity:

Answer 10

the obligation or duty resting on one person to make good any loss or damage another has incurred or may occur

Question 11

Interrogatory:

Answer 11

a pre-trial discovery tool in which written questions are asked to an opponent in a lawsuit answered in writing under oath

Question 12

Ipso facto:

Answer 12

by the fact itself, in and of itself

Question 13

Judgement:

Answer 13

the determination of a court of competent jurisdiction upon matters submitted to it

Question 14

Liability:

Answer 14

having legal responsibility to pay another for damages

Question 15

Litigation:

Answer 15

a controversy in court

Question 16

Litigant:

Answer 16

party in lawsuit

Question 17

Locality rule:

Answer 17

a doctrine under which a doctor’s compliance with the appropriate standard of care is judged by the practices of doctors in their same geographic locality, doctrine has been abandoned in many jurisdictions

Question 18

Malpractice:

Answer 18

a professional’s improper or immoral conduct in the performance of duties, done intentionally or through carelessness or ignorance

Question 19

Mitigation of damages:

Answer 19

the duty of the victim of a wrong to do whatever is reasonably possible to reduce or limit their own damages

Question 20

Negligence:

Answer 20

failure to exercise that degree of care which a person of ordinary prudence would exercise under the same circumstance