Test Bank True False Chapter 7 Civil And Administrative Law - Chapter Test Bank | Law & Society 4e Walsh by Anthony Walsh. DOCX document preview.
CHAPTER 7
TRUE/FALSE QUESTIONS
- In a civil trial, a plaintiff is analogous to a defendant in a criminal trial.
- The Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendments apply in civil trials.
- Property law in the United States is a product of English common law.
- Interests in real property law refer to obligations of real property owners.
- Trespassers have no rights in relation to the land on which they trespass.
- An example of personal property would be an automobile.
- A bailment is a transfer of possession.
- The legal capacity requirement to sign a contract refers only to the age of the signees.
- Breaches of contract are considered torts.
- Proximate cause is the same thing as the “but for” cause.
- Contributory negligence is still a preeminent defense in civil trials.
- The terms annulment and divorce are merely different words for the same thing.
- The juvenile justice system is based on civil, rather than criminal, law.
- The question discussed in City of Oakland v. Oakland Raiders was one of eminent domain.
- Much of the law regulating contracts is guided by the Uniform Commercial Code.
- The term civil intent refers to the desire to cause the consequences.
- In a contract, when both parties have promises to uphold, it is called a unilateral contract.
- The typical standard of care in tort cases is called reasonable care.
- An intentional tort is one in which the tortfeasor deliberately causes harm to another person or property.
- Cases involving personal injury are called torts.
21. A fee simple absolute estate is one in which the interest in real property ends when the person dies, at which time the interest reverts to the original owner of the property.
22. There is no double jeopardy protection in civil cases.
23. Many of the defenses to criminal intent also serve as defenses to civil intent.
24. The complaint in a civil case is filed by the defendant.
25. Family law is conciliatory rather than accusatory.
26. Same-sex marriage is constitutional in every state and the federal government.
27. Criminal enforcement deals with sites where there has been a release or a threat of release of hazardous substances into the environment.
28. Administrative agencies can overturn federal court rulings bearing on the interpretation of regulatory statutes unless the court’s interpretation is the only one possible.
29. The Environmental Protection Agency is the largest regulatory agency in the federal government.
30. Administrative agencies make law, enforce it, and adjudicate it, thus combining all three functions of government that are supposed to be separate.