1-1 Assessment

A crime is considered an offence against?

Its victim.

Businesses cannot commit torts.

False.

The statutory definition of murder is a

substantive law.

An organized group of laws is referred to as a code.

True.

Torts are private wrongs committed against individuals or organizations.

True.

Business activities are at times governed by criminal law.

False.

Substitutions for revenge is the first stage in the evolution of law.

False.

Legislative enactments by a city government are called?

Ordinance.

The two systems of law in use today are the English common law and the?

Roman civil law.

The first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution are known as the?

The Bill of Rights.

Louisiana is the only one of the 50 states whose legal system was not originally based on the English common law.

True.

Most American law courts can use either damages or injunctions or both as a remedies in civil cases.

True.

Stare decisis is the doctrine that requires lower courts to adhere to existing case law in their decisions.

True.