Acronyms Flashcards
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Prop 8
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Even Brainiacs Host Rowdy Phish Parties
Exclusionary Rule Best Evidence Rule Hearsay Rape Shield Privilege Prosecutorial Limits on Character Evidence
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Legal Relevance
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People Can Make Daily Changes Within
3
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Statement Against Interest
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3PI KA chU
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Recorded Recollection
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Kawen Makes Angry Faces At Insults
5
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Confrontation Clause
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Terrible Undercooked Chicken
6
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Non-character Purposes for Evidence
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MIMIC
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Business Records
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Crispy Rice Krispie Treats
8
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Unavailability
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Four Ants Devour Hand Pies
9
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Standing
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Indy Car Racing
10
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Organizational Standing
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Indianapolis Motor Speedway Patrol
11
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Commerce Clause
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CHAISE
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Dormant Commerce Clause
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Nine Normal Dinos Make Pizza TGiF
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Obscenity
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Platypuses do LAPS with Patented fiNS
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Establishment Clause
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Excessive SPrAIN
SEX
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Regulatory Taking
Decrease in Economic Value
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Bears Eat Insects Insects Bears Eat
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Procedural Due Process
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Important Individual Interesting Pig Guts
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Preemption
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Editor In Chief
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Time, Place, Manner Restrictions
Public Forum/Designated Public Forum
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Coming Now No Teams In Atlantic Coast Conference
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Commercial Speech
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Loud Ass Mother Fuckin’: SAINT
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Taxing and Spending Clause
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CPU
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Articles of Incorporation
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No Sleep Available Anytime, Insomnia
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Piercing the Corporate Veil
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Alter Egos Feature in Capital Frauds
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Business Judgment Rule
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I’ve Got Faith, Cheating Is Risky Business
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10(b)(5)
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Insane Clowns Murder Fluffy Squirrels (Rough Day)
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16(b)
I'll take 2000 SEX for $10,000,000 Alex
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Duty of Loyalty (Fiduciary Duty Owed)
CIrCUIT
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De Facto Corporation
Greek Freak is Everyone's Championship Player
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Ultra Vires Act
SHE CODS
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Creation of Agency Relationship
ABC
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Ratification
Martians Train Martians Against Extra-Terrestrials
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Independent Contractor Factors
Students Take P.E. Purely Because Coaches Create Champions
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Defamation
Deer Proudly Proffer Delicious Recipes
| Public Figures False Feign Kindness, Rats
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Malice Aforethought
If Ken Stabs Barbie, Run, Don't Dial Home For Murder
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Voluntary Manslaughter
Professional Robot CONference
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Insanity Defenses
MN - Quality MidWest
MPC -- Criminals Conduct Cornets and Lutes
In Italy, Conforming Artists Lose
Durham -- Duke Medical
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Forgery
CAlifornia Life Savers Free Dive
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Kidnapping
U Can't Win Min, Ha!
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Contract Formation
MA(O+A) + C - D
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Offer
I Don't Care
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Statute of Frauds
MY LEGS
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Trust Formation
SPIRiT BF
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Support Trust
HEMS
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Undue Influence
In Every Oven Burns Fire
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Misrepresentation/Fraud
Miniature Market Fears Robots, Jaws, and Dinosaurs
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Co-Trustee Liability
rANCID
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Will Requirements
2 Douglas William Crandell, I Love U
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Holographic Will or Codicil
Interesting Card, Holographic Seal
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Incorporation by Reference
Every Idiot Does Poorly
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Undue Influence Factors
Opportunity Supplies Perfectly Voluptuous Ukrainians
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Presumption of Undue Influence
Cowardly Russians Attack Ukraine
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Statutory Influence
Dogs Chase Cats Frequently
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Custody
Football Club Plays Fast Old Men
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Exclusionary Rule
Is a Song of Ice and Goddamn Fire Written Down?
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Joint Tenancy
T-TIP
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Constructive Eviction
Loving Bull Shit Does Not Reveal Valor
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Warranty of Habitability
Mexican Trains Run On Rail Roads Daily
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Termination of Easement
END CRAMPS
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Present Covenants (Deed)
Sex Only Creates Angry Enemies
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Future Covenants (Deed)
Quiet Enemies Wait For Assholes
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Notice
Kit Is Reckless
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Public Nuisance
Ur Health Service Provider will C U now
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Legal Remedies (Tort) -- Compensatory
Casual Foreplay Certainly Unavoidable
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Specific Performance
Volunteers Prepare Infants For Delivery
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TRO/Preliminary Injunction
Indiana Basketball Premier League Success
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Permanent Injunction
Indiana Pacers Follow Basketball Drills
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Defenses (Equitable Remedies)
ULUru Has Every Feature Coveted
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Legal Remedies (Contract)
ERIC L N
ERIC Loves Names
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Constructive Trust
Downright Terrible Web User Interface
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Grounds for Rescission/Reformation
Mistake (Mutual or Unilateral)
| Misrepresentation (Innocent/Fraudulent).
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Undue Hardship
Inadequacy of Consideration, Marked Inequality Between Parties, and Unfair Advantage Exercised by the Plaintiff
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Pretermitted Child
Receives intestate share unless:
1) will shows omission was intentional
2) T provided substitute transfer outside will (T provided for omitted child outside will when T leaves substantially all estate to surviving spouse who is child's parent)
3) T had other children and left estate to parent of omitted child
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Omitted Spouse
1/2 of CP and QCP + 1/2 share of SP unless
1) will shows omission was intentional
2) T provided substitute transfer outside will, or
3) waiver agreement
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Intestacy (Advancement)
Inter vivos property given during decedent's lifetime is treated as an advancement against share of intestate estate only if
1) decedent declares in a contemporaneous writing that the gift is an advancement against the heir's share or
2) heir acknowledges it in writing
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Distribution Schemes
Per stirpes: per capital with right of representation: each root gets equal share; each root of each root gets equal share (divided at level of decedent's children regardless of whether there are any living takers)
Per capita (equally by headcount): each living member of a class of beneficiaries (at each surviving generation of issue, unless stated in will) gets equal share)
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Child born out of wedlock (intestacy)
Natural parent may not inherit unless:
1) parent acknowledged the child and
2) contributed to support or care of the child
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Ademption by Satisfaction
An inter vivos gift in advance of will is treated as satisfaction of a testamentary gift if
1) instrument specifies deduction of the lifetime gift from testamentary gift or
2) T declares in a contemporaneous writing that the transfer is to be deducted from the testamentary gift or
3) transferee acknowledges in writing
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Pre-Marital Agreement (Invalidation)
Divers Voluntarily Waive Investigations of Killing of 7 Coral Reefs
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Transmutation
Consider Not Requiring Signature Declaring Canada Official
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Education Expenses
Super Bowl 10 Cowboys Felt Embarrassed at Loss to Superior Steelers
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Testamentary Capacity
18 and Sound Mind
1) Nature of Act
2) Extent of Property
3) Persons who are natural objects of her bounty
New England Natural Observatory
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Assignment Coupled with Interest
Pledgee; Purchased or Agreed to Purchase Shares; Creditor who extended credit under the terms of the appointment; an employee whose contract requires the appointment; or a party to a voting agreement
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Revocation of Proxy
In writing; SH showing up to vote himself; or appointment of another proxy
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Fundamental Corporate Change
Majority of Board adopts resolution (disinterested directors); notice to SH (10-60 days) describing change; approval by a majority of all votes; formalized in articles filed with state.
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Interested Director Transaction (Duty of Loyalty)
Not in breach of duty if:
Transaction approve by a majority of disinterested directors (at least two) after all material facts disclosed; majority of disinterested SH approve; or transaction was fair to corporation (judged according to circumstances at the time of commitment)
Fair transaction: adequacy of consideration, corporate need, corporation's finances, available alternatives.
