Terminologies Flashcards

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Act of binding oneself to do something

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OBLIGATION

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Philosophy of science of law

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JURISPRUDENCE

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Law in which the government is directly involved

Regulate the relationship between individual and government

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PUBLIC LAW

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Regulates the relationship among people

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PRIVATE LAW

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5
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State the principle and provisions for establishment of specific law

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CONSTITUTIONAL LAW

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Responsible for enacting laws
Congress body

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LEGISLATURE

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Law enacted by this body

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STATUTORY LAW

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Responsible for reconciling controversies and conflicts

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JUDICIARY SYSTEM

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9
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Body of law and accumulated decision

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COMMON LAW

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Made by the executive law of government

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ADMINISTRATIVE LAW

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Law that holds physician and radiologic technologist harmless when rendering
aid to a person in emergency situation

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GOOD SAMARITAN LAW

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Law with its primary purpose to control and suppress the illegal use and
distribution of narcotics

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NARCOTIC LAW

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13
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A legal declaration of a person’s intention upon death

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WILL

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One who makes the will

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TESTATOR

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Legal action in a control of law

Proceeding in court for a purpose o To enforce right o To redress wrong

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LAWSUIT

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16
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Process of the lawsuit

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LITIGATION

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17
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Person or government bringing a lawsuit against another

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PLANTIFF

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Person being accused of a tort or crime

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DEFENDANT

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Mercy killing

Act of painlessly putting to death of person who is suffering from incurable or
dispressing disease

Criminal charge of homicide

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EUTHANASIA

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20
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Act is a
wrongful from the very beginning

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MALA INSE

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There’s
a law that prohibits the act

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MALA PROHIBITA

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A claim which can be enforced
respect it

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LEGAL RIGHT

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23
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Complainant or defendant

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CIVIL CASE

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Plantiff or accused

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CRIMINAL CASE

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A fair & orderly process which aims to protect & enforce a person’s right
DUE PROCESS
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Facts are presented & determined
TRIAL
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A writ commanding an authorized person to notify a party to appear in court to answer a complaint made against him
SUMMONS
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An order that requires a person to attend at witness
SUBPOENA
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A subpoena that requires witness to bring documents/papers in his possession
SUBPOENA DUCES TECUM
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Rumors not admissible as evidence
HEARSAY EVIDENCE
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The willful telling of a lie under oath
PERJURY
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Considered hearsay unless the dying person is a victim of a crime
DYING DECLARATION
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A will which is written, dated and signed by the hand of the testator himself
HOLOGRAPHIC WILL
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The failure, without legal cause to perform any promise which forms the whole parts of a contract
BREACH OF CONTRACT
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A ground of legal action
CAUSE
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Approval, permission or agreement
CONSENT
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The price, motive or matter of inducement Refers to a fee, salary or reward
CONSIDERATION
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The expulsion of the product of conception before the fetus is viable
ABORTION
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BILL OF RIGHT
Freedom of worship Freedom of speech Freedom of vote
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A wrong committed by a person against another person by his property
Torts
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An offense against persons or property against the public
CRIME
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Failure of a professional person to act at all times within accepted standards of a profession
NEGLIGENCE
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Act of negligence/acting beyond the radiologic technology standards
MALPRACTICE
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Untruthful oral statement about a person that subjects him to ridicule Wrong defamation
SLANDER
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Untruthful written statement about a person that subjects him to ridicule There must be 2nd person to hear or read the comment
LIBEL
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A wrong that involves the right of person to be let alone
INVASION OF PRIVACY
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A threat or an attempt to make bodily contact with another person without person’s consent
ASSAULT
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An assault that is carried out
BATTERY
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Will and purposeful misconduct that could or has caused loss or harm to person or property False presentation of some fact and the intention that it will be acted upon by another person
FRAUD
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A crime punishable by imprisonment in a state
FELONY
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Crime with a lesser offense Punishable with fines and imprisonment or both for less than a year
MISDEMEANOR
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Illegally killing another person with motive
1st DEGREE MURDER
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Killing another person without previous deliberation
2nd DEGREE MURDER
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Refers to the commission or omission of an act pursuant to a duty, that reasonably prudent person in the same or similar circumstances would or would not do and acting or non-acting is the proximate his property
NEGLIGENCE
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Acts or omissions punishable by law and they may be committed not only by means of deceit but also by fault
FELONIES
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The fraudulent withholding or misrepresenting of facts whereby a person is misled to his injury
DECEIT
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A person whose property is transmitted through succession, whether or not he left a will
DECEDENT
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A fair and orderly legal proceedings which observe fundamental rules and designed for the protection and enforcement of individual rights and liberties
DUE PROCESS OF LAW
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Influence used directly to procure the will and which amounts to a coercion destroying the free action of the testator
UNDUE INFLUENCE
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The intention to commit a crime
CRIMINAL INTENT
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One element of a contract to make a promise, a binding and to make an agreement which creates an obligation An agreement upon a sufficient consideration, to do or not to do a particular thing
CONSIDERATION
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Implies the ideas of improper or unskilled care of a patient by a radiologic technologist · Denotes a stopping beyond one’s authority with serious consequences
MALPRACTICE