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Burden Of Proof Mens Rea
1,092 wordsLaws are made to maintain order by setting restrictions on conduct and to protect the rights of parties. There are three types of laws, which are: tort law, criminal law and contract law. Tort law is a civil wrong, criminal law is a public wrong and contract law is a wrong against a contract, written or oral. Tort law is the primary source for the authority of private security officers and the limitations on such authority. Tort law varies from state to state. The law of torts is found in both l...
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Held Liable Reasonable Care
1,001 wordsHarm is easily defined when it is intentional; after all, no one would push you down the steps or purposely cause you to wreck your car. Negligence is an area of tort law that involves unintentional acts that can cause harm and is just as easily identified. The boundaries governing liabilities for negligence, however, are much narrower than that of intentional torts. The difference is that the respondent in a negligent action is performing a task, which is considered perfectly acceptable in ever...
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Pails And Dippers Of Water Pails And Dippers Fire
396 wordsEverybody was in a panic! It was a Fun Friday in our school, 2 pm. , August 6, 2004 where school children showcased their talents in singing and dancing at the open stage of the school premises when a fire broke out at the back of the Grade 1 building. My seven teachers rushed toward me alarmed and uneasy with the situation, some children were nowhere to find a place brought about by the fire at the nearby house 2 meters away from the school building of Grade one class. The solid smoke above had...
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Recklessness And Criminal Liability
1,226 wordsExplain the role of recklessness in determining criminal liability. In everyday language, recklessness means taking an unjust risk. However its definition in law is different to its ordinary English meaning and careful direction as to its meaning in law has to be given to the jury. There are two types of recklessness, which exist, subjective recklessness, also known as Cunningham recklessness, and objective recklessness, which is also know as Caldwell recklessness. (Caldwell recklessness only ap...
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Attack On Pearl Harbor Surprise Attack
642 wordsThe Japanese navy launched a surprise attack on US forces in Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, killing thousands of US troops. This surprise attack played a key factor in the United States entering World War II. Because of the local commanders lack of attention and good judgment, the Japanese had the ability to attack the naval base and were successful in doing so. Primarily, the commanders ignored the obvious warnings of an attack from the Japanese and the current political situation between Ja...
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Code Of Conduct Whats Wrong
1,804 words... the employees when they are supposed to be non-thinkers and constantly supervised for any deviations from the norm. As for a balance of work and life, McDonalds would insist on complete loyalty to the company, but it cannot. Instead, they leave the lowly employee with an erratic unpredictable work schedule that must be planned around. If the employee does not want to comply by these unfair exploitive guidelines, he or she can simply quit and another will fill the spot. Apparently, McDonalds ...
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Past Ten Years Unconditional Love
919 wordsIn "Up the Coulee, " Hamlin Garland depicts what occurs when Howard McLane is away for an extended period of time and begins to neglect his family. Howard's family members are offended by the negligence. Although his neglect causes his brother, Grant McLane, to resent him, Garland shows that part of having a family is being able to put aside negative feelings in order to resolve problems with relatives. Garland demonstrates how years apart can affect family relationships, causing neglect, resent...
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Injured Person Product Liability
689 wordsTort A tort is basically defined as something that occurs when the individual, either deliberately or through his or her carelessness causes loss or harm to another individual, or to the individuals property. Although this definition leaves much room for the argument, it does little to define what tort is beyond this vague definition of causing harm or loss to somebody. Therefore, it is very important to embark upon this seemingly difficult task of defining tort by looking at the history and ety...
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000 Per Year Transaction Costs
1,618 words... the lowest cost avoider will be the part able to reduce damages or the risks of damages at a lowest cost (Brealey & Myers, 1996). As the assumption is that both parties involved in situation can undertake specific actions to prevent damages, it becomes obvious that a Pigou tax could result in significantly worse outcome. For example, it can be assumed that the steel maker is taxed $ 250, 000 per year for the use of his current inefficient steel production methods. In this case, if the steel ...
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Elder Abuse Cruel Treatment
1,322 wordsElder abuse Nowadays our slogans are make the way for youth, youth is our future and so on. It is nice and true. But because of our natural selfishness we forgot that we have not only future but the past where we were brought up by the elders. Many of us are just ashamed to recognize that they often simply forget about the existence of their old relatives, not to mention taking care of them. Elders can suffer infringements of motility, mentality and ability to orient in space that is why they ne...
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Industrial Espionage Intellectual Property
1,212 wordsBUG, Inc. , Paper. 1) As we understand from the BUGs activities some of a company's most important assets are its intellectual property rights, which include patents, copyrights, trademarks and trade secrets. Thus the company should take elaborate precautions to ensure that physical equipment does not leave the building as well as to disallow these valuable assets to go unprotected. Intellectual property is not like other types of property and with case of BUG company illustrates that. It is con...
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U S Supreme Court U S Court
2,809 wordsBusiness Law and The Legal Environment Court if Appeals may review orders from certain administrative agencies. The function of this court is to examine the record of a case on appeal and to determine whether the trial court committed prejudicial error. The court can either reverse or modify the judgment. The court may also send it back to the lower court or if there is no prejudicial error, uphold the lower courts judgment. The Supreme Courts the nations highest court whose principal function i...
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Copyright Infringement Intellectual Property
2,439 wordsA copyright is the right to produce, reproduce, and transform any original work. Copyrights are only given to original works that fall under the following seven categories: Literary works, Musical works including accompanying any works, Dramatic works including accompanying music, Choreographic works, Graphical and sculptural works, Motion pictures and other audiovisual works, Sound recordings, and Architectural works 1. Under the Canadian copyright act any published or unpublished original work...
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Computer Crime Computer Criminals
2,399 wordsWhite-collar crime, specifically computer crime, is becoming more popular as computers become more readily available. Crimes using computers and crimes against computers are usually committed without fear of being caught, due to the detachment of the offender from the victim. Computer crime is defined as, Criminal activity directly related to the use of computers, specifically illegal trespass into the computer system or database of another, manipulation or theft of stored or on-line data, or sa...
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Columbine High School Dylan Klebold
985 wordsAt Gun Got Gun? A President gets caught after having backdoor sexual relationship with his secretary, a prime suspect of a murder case is proven innocent because he was rich and famous; anything can happen in America. The greatest nation of world, America saw its ugly side through the mirror on a sunny day of April. Sex, corruption, drug, and violence are the four major problems that modern American society is suffering. The massacre of thirteen students and a teacher by two students at Columbin...
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G C C E
2,038 wordsCase Synopsis The Kansas City, MO Hyatt Regency Hotel was designed to be open and airy, with a lobby consisting of an open atrium that extended to the top of the building. On one side of the building were the hotel rooms, and on the other side were the meeting and conference facilities. To facilitate the transfer of guests from their rooms to the conference facilities, walkways were to be built on each floor to connect the two. To maintain the open feel of the atrium, the walkways were suspended...
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Medical Care Insurance Costs
1,744 wordsMedical Malpractice The doctor-patient relationship has been defined differently through the years. In the beginning it developed into a common calling which meant doctors practiced medicine as a duty to their patients. Laws were developed to protect patients, therefore doctors used proper care and expert skill. In the past six centuries, medical malpractice has increased, which lead to revision and addition to the law. Liability was introduced along with the GIANT of all torts, negligence. Now ...
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Form Of Government Moral Principles
1,455 wordsPolitical philosophy, that is, the philosophy of the polis, started with the placement of man at the center of philosophical inquiry Know Thyself (gn thi season), as was written on the frontispiece of the Delphic Oracle. For the Greek philosophers, the study of man could not be separated from the study of the community, outside of which man cannot fulfill his nature, which is intrinsically social. Politics is the science of the city, that is, the science of living in a community and of serving t...
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Lieutenant Jimmy Cross Ted Lavender
726 wordsPaper 3 Tim Obrien's The Things They Carried is a chronicle of the events that take place in the life of one army squad. OBrien narrates these events as they are lived by Lieutenant Jimmy Cross. Jimmy Cross not only carries his necessities but also the burden of being responsible for his mens lives. The story begins describing the non-love letters Jimmy Cross receives from the woman with whom he is madly in love. He realizes that his love is not reciprocated but is nonetheless hopeful that one d...
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Court Of Law General Motors
1,515 wordsLegal Commentary Assignment The article: General Motors has recalled 224, 000 1998 / 1999 Cadillac Deville Sedans. As a result of a defective side impact sensor module, the vehicles airbag may either unintentionally deploy or not deploy at all. To date, there have been 306 reports of the sensor malfunction. Of these, 61 of the incidents have resulted in minor injuries such as cuts and bruises. Deemed as the responsive thing to do, General Motors started notifying owners of the vehicle by mail co...
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