Terminologies Flashcards
Act of binding oneself to do something
OBLIGATION
Philosophy of science of law
JURISPRUDENCE
Law in which the government is directly involved
Regulate the relationship between individual and government
PUBLIC LAW
Regulates the relationship among people
PRIVATE LAW
State the principle and provisions for establishment of specific law
CONSTITUTIONAL LAW
Responsible for enacting laws
Congress body
LEGISLATURE
Law enacted by this body
STATUTORY LAW
Responsible for reconciling controversies and conflicts
JUDICIARY SYSTEM
Body of law and accumulated decision
COMMON LAW
Made by the executive law of government
ADMINISTRATIVE LAW
Law that holds physician and radiologic technologist harmless when rendering
aid to a person in emergency situation
GOOD SAMARITAN LAW
Law with its primary purpose to control and suppress the illegal use and
distribution of narcotics
NARCOTIC LAW
A legal declaration of a person’s intention upon death
WILL
One who makes the will
TESTATOR
Legal action in a control of law
Proceeding in court for a purpose o To enforce right o To redress wrong
LAWSUIT
Process of the lawsuit
LITIGATION
Person or government bringing a lawsuit against another
PLANTIFF
Person being accused of a tort or crime
DEFENDANT
Mercy killing
Act of painlessly putting to death of person who is suffering from incurable or
dispressing disease
Criminal charge of homicide
EUTHANASIA
Act is a
wrongful from the very beginning
MALA INSE
There’s
a law that prohibits the act
MALA PROHIBITA
A claim which can be enforced
respect it
LEGAL RIGHT
Complainant or defendant
CIVIL CASE
Plantiff or accused
CRIMINAL CASE
A fair & orderly process which aims to protect & enforce a person’s right
DUE PROCESS
Facts are presented & determined
TRIAL
A writ commanding an authorized person
to notify a party to appear in court
to answer a complaint made against him
SUMMONS
An order that requires a person to attend at
witness
SUBPOENA
A subpoena that requires witness to bring documents/papers in his possession
SUBPOENA DUCES TECUM
Rumors not admissible as evidence
HEARSAY EVIDENCE
The willful telling of a lie under oath
PERJURY
Considered hearsay unless the dying person is a victim of a crime
DYING DECLARATION
A will which is written, dated and signed by the hand of the testator himself
HOLOGRAPHIC WILL
The failure,
without legal cause to perform any promise which forms the whole parts
of a contract
BREACH OF CONTRACT
A ground of legal action
CAUSE
Approval, permission or agreement
CONSENT
The price, motive or matter of inducement
Refers to a fee, salary or reward
CONSIDERATION
The expulsion of the product of conception before the fetus is viable
ABORTION
BILL OF RIGHT
Freedom of worship
Freedom of speech
Freedom of vote
A wrong committed by a person against another person by his property
Torts
An offense against persons or property against the public
CRIME
Failure of a professional person to act at all times within accepted standards of a profession
NEGLIGENCE
Act of negligence/acting beyond the radiologic technology standards
MALPRACTICE
Untruthful oral statement about a person that subjects him to ridicule
Wrong defamation
SLANDER
Untruthful written statement about a person that subjects him to ridicule
There must be 2nd person to hear or read the comment
LIBEL
A wrong that involves the right of person to be let alone
INVASION OF PRIVACY
A threat or an attempt to make bodily contact with another person without
person’s consent
ASSAULT
An assault that is carried out
BATTERY
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
FRAUD
A crime punishable by imprisonment in a state
FELONY
Crime with a lesser offense
Punishable with fines and imprisonment or both for less than a year
MISDEMEANOR
Illegally killing another person with motive
1st DEGREE MURDER
Killing another person without previous deliberation
2nd DEGREE MURDER
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
NEGLIGENCE
Acts or omissions punishable by law and they may be committed not only by
means of deceit but also by fault
FELONIES
The fraudulent withholding or misrepresenting of facts whereby a person is
misled to his injury
DECEIT
A person whose property is transmitted through succession, whether or not he
left a will
DECEDENT
A fair and orderly legal proceedings which observe fundamental rules and
designed for the protection and enforcement of individual rights and liberties
DUE PROCESS OF LAW
Influence used directly to procure the will and which amounts to a coercion
destroying the free action of the testator
UNDUE INFLUENCE
The intention to commit a crime
CRIMINAL INTENT
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
CONSIDERATION
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
MALPRACTICE
