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Terminologies Flashcards

1
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Act of binding oneself to do something

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OBLIGATION

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2
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Philosophy of science of law

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JURISPRUDENCE

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3
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Law in which the government is directly involved

Regulate the relationship between individual and government

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PUBLIC LAW

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4
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Regulates the relationship among people

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PRIVATE LAW

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5
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State the principle and provisions for establishment of specific law

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CONSTITUTIONAL LAW

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6
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Responsible for enacting laws
Congress body

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LEGISLATURE

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7
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Law enacted by this body

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STATUTORY LAW

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8
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Responsible for reconciling controversies and conflicts

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JUDICIARY SYSTEM

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9
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Body of law and accumulated decision

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COMMON LAW

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10
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Made by the executive law of government

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ADMINISTRATIVE LAW

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11
Q

Law that holds physician and radiologic technologist harmless when rendering
aid to a person in emergency situation

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GOOD SAMARITAN LAW

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12
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Law with its primary purpose to control and suppress the illegal use and
distribution of narcotics

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NARCOTIC LAW

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13
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A legal declaration of a person’s intention upon death

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WILL

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14
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One who makes the will

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TESTATOR

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15
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Legal action in a control of law

Proceeding in court for a purpose o To enforce right o To redress wrong

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LAWSUIT

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16
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Process of the lawsuit

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LITIGATION

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17
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Person or government bringing a lawsuit against another

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PLANTIFF

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18
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Person being accused of a tort or crime

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DEFENDANT

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19
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Mercy killing

Act of painlessly putting to death of person who is suffering from incurable or
dispressing disease

Criminal charge of homicide

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EUTHANASIA

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20
Q

Act is a
wrongful from the very beginning

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MALA INSE

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21
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There’s
a law that prohibits the act

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MALA PROHIBITA

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22
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A claim which can be enforced
respect it

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LEGAL RIGHT

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23
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Complainant or defendant

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CIVIL CASE

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24
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Plantiff or accused

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CRIMINAL CASE

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25
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A fair & orderly process which aims to protect & enforce a person’s right

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DUE PROCESS

26
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Facts are presented & determined

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TRIAL

27
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A writ commanding an authorized person
to notify a party to appear in court
to answer a complaint made against him

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SUMMONS

28
Q

An order that requires a person to attend at
witness

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SUBPOENA

29
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A subpoena that requires witness to bring documents/papers in his possession

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SUBPOENA DUCES TECUM

30
Q

Rumors not admissible as evidence

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HEARSAY EVIDENCE

31
Q

The willful telling of a lie under oath

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PERJURY

32
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Considered hearsay unless the dying person is a victim of a crime

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DYING DECLARATION

33
Q

A will which is written, dated and signed by the hand of the testator himself

A

HOLOGRAPHIC WILL

34
Q

The failure,
without legal cause to perform any promise which forms the whole parts
of a contract

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BREACH OF CONTRACT

35
Q

A ground of legal action

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CAUSE

36
Q

Approval, permission or agreement

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CONSENT

37
Q

The price, motive or matter of inducement
Refers to a fee, salary or reward

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CONSIDERATION

38
Q

The expulsion of the product of conception before the fetus is viable

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ABORTION

39
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BILL OF RIGHT

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Freedom of worship
Freedom of speech
Freedom of vote

40
Q

A wrong committed by a person against another person by his property

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Torts

41
Q

An offense against persons or property against the public

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CRIME

42
Q

Failure of a professional person to act at all times within accepted standards of a profession

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NEGLIGENCE

43
Q

Act of negligence/acting beyond the radiologic technology standards

A

MALPRACTICE

44
Q

Untruthful oral statement about a person that subjects him to ridicule
Wrong defamation

A

SLANDER

45
Q

Untruthful written statement about a person that subjects him to ridicule
There must be 2nd person to hear or read the comment

A

LIBEL

46
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A wrong that involves the right of person to be let alone

A

INVASION OF PRIVACY

47
Q

A threat or an attempt to make bodily contact with another person without
person’s consent

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ASSAULT

48
Q

An assault that is carried out

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BATTERY

49
Q

Will and purposeful misconduct that could or has caused loss or harm to person
or property

False presentation of some fact and the intention that it will be acted upon by
another person

A

FRAUD

50
Q

A crime punishable by imprisonment in a state

A

FELONY

51
Q

Crime with a lesser offense
Punishable with fines and imprisonment or both for less than a year

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MISDEMEANOR

52
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Illegally killing another person with motive

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1st DEGREE MURDER

53
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Killing another person without previous deliberation

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2nd DEGREE MURDER

54
Q

Refers to the commission or omission of an act pursuant to a duty, that reasonably
prudent person in the same or similar circumstances would or would not do and
acting or non-acting is the proximate
his property

A

NEGLIGENCE

55
Q

Acts or omissions punishable by law and they may be committed not only by
means of deceit but also by fault

A

FELONIES

56
Q

The fraudulent withholding or misrepresenting of facts whereby a person is
misled to his injury

A

DECEIT

57
Q

A person whose property is transmitted through succession, whether or not he
left a will

A

DECEDENT

58
Q

A fair and orderly legal proceedings which observe fundamental rules and
designed for the protection and enforcement of individual rights and liberties

A

DUE PROCESS OF LAW

59
Q

Influence used directly to procure the will and which amounts to a coercion
destroying the free action of the testator

A

UNDUE INFLUENCE

60
Q

The intention to commit a crime

A

CRIMINAL INTENT

61
Q

One element of a contract to make a promise, a binding and to make an
agreement which creates an obligation

An agreement upon a sufficient consideration, to do or not to do a particular
thing

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CONSIDERATION

62
Q

Implies the ideas of improper or unskilled care of a patient by a radiologic
technologist

· Denotes a stopping beyond one’s authority with serious consequences

A

MALPRACTICE

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