Unit 5: International Legal Systems

The area of law that protects Coca-Cola® (with is accompanying ®) is

Anything of value given to any official to make a decision that may be to the payer’s benefit.

Statutes are passed in order to add or change existing laws & define laws for new situations.

Laws are made by a set of decision makers whose specific purpose is to make laws.

The area of law that protects a sale of home by its owner

Owning a business that operates in a building then u are liable 4 the condition of the building

invents or discovers new and useful process, or any new and useful improvement thereof.

A lawsuit to enforce rights or to seek a remedy to the violation of rights.

One party offers valid terms and the other party accepts.

Statutes are based on decisions made in previous legal cases.

Prohibits US companies & citizens frm bribing officials & political candidates in other nations

Only one nation must agree that the International Court of Justice settle a dispute.

The technical knowledge or creative work that has been developed by the company.

All parties must be competent, of legal age, and mentally capable.

A court that settles disputes between nations when both nations request that it do so is?

Patents protect the rights of inventors to profit from their inventions.

A mediator does all of the following except

A trademark protects the inventor of a product or process for seventeen years.

Under strict liability a consumer orders coffee that they spill then suffers burns, the seller

To be in litigation is the same thing as to be in arbitration.

The type of legal system based on decisions made in prior cases is what?

Everything that can be owned is called

Those laws which have been enacted by a body of lawmakers.

Arbitration and mediation are usually faster and less expensive than litigation.

Making duplicate copies of a DVD of a commercial movie, then sells it would be violating what?

The settlement of a dispute does not require the agreement of both parties in

Throughout the world most legal disputes must be settled in a court of law.

An entire body of decisions is made all at one time by a government for its entire people.

invents a new, original, and ornamental design for an article of manufacture.

The term consideration used in regards to a contract means what?

A contract is not enforceable if the terms of the contract call for breaking the law.

All countries enforce international law.

Another name for code law is civil law.

Liability for unpaid wages that are due to an employee 4 work performed is an example of what?

A distinctive name, symbol, word, picture to identify services or products is called

Terms of a contract are openly declared, either orally or in writing.

A form of conflict resolution that uses a neutral third party to make a binding decision.

All of the following are essential components of a contract except

Area of law that protects a script to the movie Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone is called