[LAW 1101] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes fot the exam (130 pages long!)
29 Mar 2017
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Common law tradition: early english courts, king"s courts wanted to establish a uniform set of rules for the country as a whole, common law: a body of general rules that applied throughout the entire. Schools of legal thought: jurisprudence: the study of law, the natural law school: Chapter two outline: a private party sues another private party, e. g. : contract law and tort law: remedy, civil law system: legal system based on a written code of laws, criminal law: wrongs committed against society for which society demands redress, punish the wrongdoer. Failure to exercise due care, which is normally determined by the reasonable person standard, constitutes the tort of negligence: reasonable person standard: the standard of behavior expected of a hypothetical. Negligence on the party of a professional, such as a physician, is commonly referred to as malpractice: causation in fact: an act or omission without which an event would not have occurred, proximate cause: legal cause.
