The Legal Environment of Business Exam Practice
Questions Answered Correctly
Substantive Law - Answer Sets out the rights and duties governing people as they act in society. (What is
prohibited/what is required)
Procedural Law - Answer Establishes the rules under which the substantive rules of law are enforced.
Criminal Law - Answer Defines breaches of duty to society at large. State v ...
Civil Law - Answer Private duties owed by on each person (or corporation) to another.
Federal Law - Answer Laws passed by Congress.
State Law - Answer Laws passed by state.
Statutory Law - Answer Adds details to the government framework by establishing a regulatory agency
to provide a public service.
Common Law - Answer Court created law
Law - Answer The process by which a sovereign makes, applies, and changes rules which establish
government, maintain societal order, and define, allocate, and enforce rights and obligations among
members of a society.
Tort Law - Answer A host of duties people owe to each other.
US Constitution - Answer The highest source of law in the US. World's first and oldest written
constitution.
, Treaties - Answer Made by the President with foreign governments and ratified by at least 2/3 of the
Senate are "supreme law of the land."
Statutes - Answer The product of the lawmaking of a legislature.
Ordinances - Answer Local legislation created by cities or counties.
Judicial Review - Answer A judge may render a legal rule unenforceable by declaring it in conflict with a
constitution.
ex post facto laws - Answer A new statute applies only to actions taken after it becomes effective.
Bill of Rights - Answer The first 10 amendments to the constitution
Stare decisis - Answer A court, in making a decision, should follow the rulings of prior cases that have
similar facts.
Jurisprudence - Answer Legal philosophy
Legal System - Answer Must be reasonable, definte, flexible, practical, published, and final
House of Representatives - Answer Authority to pass bills raising revenue, and impeaching federal
officers.
Senate - Answer Advise and consent all executive federal appointments and foreign treaties. Triar of
impeachments.
Writ of Habeas Corpus - Answer ...
Bills of Attainder - Answer ...
Questions Answered Correctly
Substantive Law - Answer Sets out the rights and duties governing people as they act in society. (What is
prohibited/what is required)
Procedural Law - Answer Establishes the rules under which the substantive rules of law are enforced.
Criminal Law - Answer Defines breaches of duty to society at large. State v ...
Civil Law - Answer Private duties owed by on each person (or corporation) to another.
Federal Law - Answer Laws passed by Congress.
State Law - Answer Laws passed by state.
Statutory Law - Answer Adds details to the government framework by establishing a regulatory agency
to provide a public service.
Common Law - Answer Court created law
Law - Answer The process by which a sovereign makes, applies, and changes rules which establish
government, maintain societal order, and define, allocate, and enforce rights and obligations among
members of a society.
Tort Law - Answer A host of duties people owe to each other.
US Constitution - Answer The highest source of law in the US. World's first and oldest written
constitution.
, Treaties - Answer Made by the President with foreign governments and ratified by at least 2/3 of the
Senate are "supreme law of the land."
Statutes - Answer The product of the lawmaking of a legislature.
Ordinances - Answer Local legislation created by cities or counties.
Judicial Review - Answer A judge may render a legal rule unenforceable by declaring it in conflict with a
constitution.
ex post facto laws - Answer A new statute applies only to actions taken after it becomes effective.
Bill of Rights - Answer The first 10 amendments to the constitution
Stare decisis - Answer A court, in making a decision, should follow the rulings of prior cases that have
similar facts.
Jurisprudence - Answer Legal philosophy
Legal System - Answer Must be reasonable, definte, flexible, practical, published, and final
House of Representatives - Answer Authority to pass bills raising revenue, and impeaching federal
officers.
Senate - Answer Advise and consent all executive federal appointments and foreign treaties. Triar of
impeachments.
Writ of Habeas Corpus - Answer ...
Bills of Attainder - Answer ...
