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3-year LLB Torts — practice questions

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A prosecutor charges someone with an offence against the public, society or the state. That branch of law is:Read the answer and worked solution →A dispute over child support, property or a broken contract falls instead under:Read the answer and worked solution →Assault, drunk driving and theft are given as examples of offences under:Read the answer and worked solution →Libel, slander and contract breaches are given as examples of offences under:Read the answer and worked solution →In a criminal trial the jury convicts only when convinced to a very high standard. That standard is beyond a reasonable:Read the answer and worked solution →The person, group or business that starts a civil case is called the:Read the answer and worked solution →The party who must answer those accusations in the suit is the:Read the answer and worked solution →A criminal statute usually states the category of the crime as a gross misdemeanour, a misdemeanour or a:Read the answer and worked solution →Crimes marked by deceit, concealment or violation of trust are grouped as:Read the answer and worked solution →Ponzi schemes and embezzlement are listed among such high-profile crimes, alongside deliberate breaches of:Read the answer and worked solution →Unlike criminal prosecutions, civil suits are brought to provide the injured party with some form of:Read the answer and worked solution →Civil courts decide damages by first establishing fault and harm, and then assigning:Read the answer and worked solution →A person who fails to exercise the duty of care owed to another has committed:Read the answer and worked solution →Deciding negligence means examining the duty, the breach, the injury itself and the:Read the answer and worked solution →The main yardstick applied in such cases asks what a reasonable person would do. That is the reasonable standard of:Read the answer and worked solution →Intentionally creating and spreading malicious falsehoods about another person is:Read the answer and worked solution →That wrong occurs in two forms. One is slander and the other is:Read the answer and worked solution →Of those two forms, the one involving falsehoods in written or recorded form is:Read the answer and worked solution →A doctrine allowing a jury to infer negligence from circumstances, though it does not prove it, is res ipsa:Read the answer and worked solution →A plaintiff whose own carelessness contributed to the harm may face a defence that bars recovery entirely. That defence is:Read the answer and worked solution →Someone who enters or stays on another's property without permission commits:Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the civil wrongsRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the negligence elementsRead the answer and worked solution →Run the liability gatesRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the law wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Criminal or civilRead the answer and worked solution →Sort the legal wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →Liability bingoRead the answer and worked solution →

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A prosecutor charges someone with an offence against the public, society or the state. That branch of law is:

  1. Criminal law
  2. Contract law
  3. Corporate law
  4. Copyright law
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Correct answer: A. Criminal law

1. The wrong is against the public. 2. The state brings the case. 3. It is criminal law. _Source: OpenStax Business Law I Essentials 2e, Chapters 5 and 6, Criminal and Civil Law and Torts._

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A dispute over child support, property or a broken contract falls instead under:

  1. Criminal law
  2. Civil law
  3. Canon law
  4. Customs law
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Correct answer: B. Civil law

1. Private rights are injured. 2. No offence against the state is claimed. 3. It is civil law. _Source: OpenStax Business Law I Essentials 2e, Chapters 5 and 6, Criminal and Civil Law and Torts._

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Assault, drunk driving and theft are given as examples of offences under:

  1. Criminal law
  2. Consumer law
  3. Civil law
  4. Company law
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Correct answer: A. Criminal law

1. The public is wronged. 2. The state prosecutes them. 3. They are criminal offences. _Source: OpenStax Business Law I Essentials 2e, Chapters 5 and 6, Criminal and Civil Law and Torts._

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