BUL 5810 FSU PROFESSIONAL STUDY
SHEET TESTED QUESTIONS MASTER FILE
●● What is the supreme law of the land in the United States?
(A) Federal statutes
(B) The UCC
(C) The common law
(D) The U.S. Constitution
Answer: (D) The U.S. Constitution
●● Statutory law is:
(A) not well suited for making drastic or comprehensive changes, thus
its importance as a source of law has diminished since the end of the
nineteenth century.
(B) the primary source of law for such business law topics as contracts,
agency, property, and trusts.
(C) a primary source of new law and ordered social change in the United
States.
(D) created by legislatures, which are less likely to repeal prior
enactments than courts are likely to overrule prior decisions
Answer: (C) a primary source of new law and ordered social change in
the United States.
,●● The courts are likely to provide remedies in all but which of the
following cases?
(A) A person refuses to return your friend's book.
(B) A passerby refuses to help rescue a drowning woman.
(C) A person pushes a man into the lake.
(D) A person does not drive carefully on a busy street.
Answer: (B) A passerby refuses to help rescue a drowning woman
●● Which one of the following is NOT true of a suit brought under
criminal law?
(A) It must be brought by the government.
(B) It is brought on the ground of public policy.
(C) Proof of guilt must be "by a preponderance of the evidence."
(D) Conviction may result in imprisonment.
Answer: C) Proof of guilt must be "by a preponderance of the evidence."
●● Sources of federal law include all but which of the following?
(A) Rules of administrative agencies
(B) Decisions of federal courts
(C) Executive orders of the President of the United States
(D) Hearings before the Senate
Answer: (D) Hearings before the Senate
,●● American jurists ____ and ____ defined law in a functional sense as
predictions of the way that a court will decide specific legal questions.
(A) Roscoe Pound and Alexander Hamilton
(B) Blackstone and Austin
(C) Roscoe Pound and Benjamin Cardozo
(D) Oliver Wendell Holmes and Benjamin Cardozo
Answer: (D) Oliver Wendell Holmes and Benjamin Cardozo
●● The separation of powers involves:
(A) the federal judiciary, the federal Congress and the federal executive
branch
(B) the federal House of Representatives and the federal Senate
(C) the executive branches at the federal, state, and local levels
(D) the court systems at the federal, state and local levels
Answer: (A) the federal judiciary, the federal Congress and the federal
executive branch
●● The law is a combination of:
(A) prohibitory, mandatory and permissive.
(B) mandatory, mundane and mediocre.
(C) permissive, passive and meditative.
(D) prohibitory, malevolent, and mandatory.
Answer: (A) prohibitory, mandatory and permissive.
, ●● A(n) ____ is the fundamental law of a particular level of
government.
(A) Restatement of law
(B) executive order
(C) constitution
(D) code
Answer: (C) constitution
●● 44. A ____ is any act or omission prohibited by public law in the
interest of protection of the public
and made punishable by the government in a judicial proceeding brought
by it, whereby proof must
be beyond a reasonable doubt.
(A) rescission
(B) sanction
(C) crime
(D) maxim
Answer: (C) crime
●● The courts in law systems such as the one in the United States have
developed a body of law that serves as precedent for determination of
later controversies. This is sometimes called:
SHEET TESTED QUESTIONS MASTER FILE
●● What is the supreme law of the land in the United States?
(A) Federal statutes
(B) The UCC
(C) The common law
(D) The U.S. Constitution
Answer: (D) The U.S. Constitution
●● Statutory law is:
(A) not well suited for making drastic or comprehensive changes, thus
its importance as a source of law has diminished since the end of the
nineteenth century.
(B) the primary source of law for such business law topics as contracts,
agency, property, and trusts.
(C) a primary source of new law and ordered social change in the United
States.
(D) created by legislatures, which are less likely to repeal prior
enactments than courts are likely to overrule prior decisions
Answer: (C) a primary source of new law and ordered social change in
the United States.
,●● The courts are likely to provide remedies in all but which of the
following cases?
(A) A person refuses to return your friend's book.
(B) A passerby refuses to help rescue a drowning woman.
(C) A person pushes a man into the lake.
(D) A person does not drive carefully on a busy street.
Answer: (B) A passerby refuses to help rescue a drowning woman
●● Which one of the following is NOT true of a suit brought under
criminal law?
(A) It must be brought by the government.
(B) It is brought on the ground of public policy.
(C) Proof of guilt must be "by a preponderance of the evidence."
(D) Conviction may result in imprisonment.
Answer: C) Proof of guilt must be "by a preponderance of the evidence."
●● Sources of federal law include all but which of the following?
(A) Rules of administrative agencies
(B) Decisions of federal courts
(C) Executive orders of the President of the United States
(D) Hearings before the Senate
Answer: (D) Hearings before the Senate
,●● American jurists ____ and ____ defined law in a functional sense as
predictions of the way that a court will decide specific legal questions.
(A) Roscoe Pound and Alexander Hamilton
(B) Blackstone and Austin
(C) Roscoe Pound and Benjamin Cardozo
(D) Oliver Wendell Holmes and Benjamin Cardozo
Answer: (D) Oliver Wendell Holmes and Benjamin Cardozo
●● The separation of powers involves:
(A) the federal judiciary, the federal Congress and the federal executive
branch
(B) the federal House of Representatives and the federal Senate
(C) the executive branches at the federal, state, and local levels
(D) the court systems at the federal, state and local levels
Answer: (A) the federal judiciary, the federal Congress and the federal
executive branch
●● The law is a combination of:
(A) prohibitory, mandatory and permissive.
(B) mandatory, mundane and mediocre.
(C) permissive, passive and meditative.
(D) prohibitory, malevolent, and mandatory.
Answer: (A) prohibitory, mandatory and permissive.
, ●● A(n) ____ is the fundamental law of a particular level of
government.
(A) Restatement of law
(B) executive order
(C) constitution
(D) code
Answer: (C) constitution
●● 44. A ____ is any act or omission prohibited by public law in the
interest of protection of the public
and made punishable by the government in a judicial proceeding brought
by it, whereby proof must
be beyond a reasonable doubt.
(A) rescission
(B) sanction
(C) crime
(D) maxim
Answer: (C) crime
●● The courts in law systems such as the one in the United States have
developed a body of law that serves as precedent for determination of
later controversies. This is sometimes called:
