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Document.docxAT 403 Legal Nomenclature
Define the following terms and for each term in BOLD provide an example that will provide an explain of the term.
1. Abandonment: the action or fact of abandoning or being abandoned.
2. Act:
3. Actual Cause: A factor without which the result in question could not happen
4. Assumption of Risk: taking a chance in a potentially dangerous situation.
5. Breach of Duty:
6. Civil Action: any lawsuit relating to civil matters and not criminal prosecution.
7. Commission:
8. Compensatory Damages: an award of money in compensation for actual economic loss, property damage or injury, not including punitive damages.
9. Defendant: an individual, company, or institution sued or accused in a court of law
10. Duty:
11. Exculpatory Clause
12. Foreseeability:
13. Good Samaritan Laws: a low that exempts from legal liability a person who attempts to give reasonable aid to another person who is injured ill, or otherwise imperiled.
14. Judgment: the ability to make considered decisions or come to sensible conclusions
15. Liability:
16. Litigation: the process of taking legal action
17. Malfeasance: Comment by ALDUAYBIL, KADHEM: hi
18. Misfeasance:
19. Negligence:
20. Nonfeasance:
21. Omission:
22. Product Liability: the legal liability a manufacturer or trader incurs for producing or selling a faulty product.
23. Sovereign (governmental) immunity:
24. Statute of Limitations:
25. Subpoena: a writ commanding a person designated in it to appear in court under a penalty for failure
26, Testimony: a formal written or spoken statement especially one given in a court of low.
27. Tort: a wrongful act or an infringement of a right (other than under contract) leading to civil legal liability.
29. Waiver: the act of intentionally relinquishing or abandoning a known right, claim, or privilege
30. Warning: a statement or event that indicates a possible or impending danger, problem, or other unpleasant situation
