Business Law: True And False
Business Law - Exam #2 - Chapters 5-7
True/False
Indicate whether the sentence or statement is true or false.
_T___ 1. Some torts are crimes.
__F__ 2. The victim must actually suffer offensive contact before he or she can succeed in a cause of action for assault.
__T__ 3. A battery occurs only if the victim suffers actual physical harm.
__T__ 4. Slander involves the oral communication of defamatory language.
__T__ 5. Oral defamatory statements must be communicated to a third party to be actionable.
____ 6. Unintentionally causing a party to break a contract may constitute wrongful interference with a contractual relationship.
__T__ 7. To commit the tort of trespass to land, a person does not need to actually harm the …show more content…
If no harm or injury results from an allegedly negligent act, there is no tort.
__F__ 9. Under the doctrine of comparative negligence, both the plaintiff's and the defendant's negligence are taken into consideration.
____T 10. Strict liability is liability without fault.
_F___ 11. A service mark is used to distinguish products produced by the federal government from those produced by private corporations.
__T__ 12. A patent applicant must demonstrate that the invention, discovery, or design is commercially practicable to receive a patent.
__F__ 13. It is not possible to copyright an idea.
___F_ 14. A person can reproduce copyrighted material without paying royalties for purposes such as teaching, including multiple copies for classroom use.
__T__ 15. A formula for a chemical compound may be a trade secret but a list of customers is not.
__T__ 16. Criminal defendants may be prosecuted by the persons who suffer harm as well as by the state.
__F__ 17. The prosecution in a criminal case need only establish by a preponderance of the evidence that the defendant committed the crime.
___F_ 18. Some misdemeanors are felonies.
__F__ 19. In most cases, criminal liability does not depend on the commission or omission of an
True/False
Indicate whether the sentence or statement is true or false.
_T___ 1. Some torts are crimes.
__F__ 2. The victim must actually suffer offensive contact before he or she can succeed in a cause of action for assault.
__T__ 3. A battery occurs only if the victim suffers actual physical harm.
__T__ 4. Slander involves the oral communication of defamatory language.
__T__ 5. Oral defamatory statements must be communicated to a third party to be actionable.
____ 6. Unintentionally causing a party to break a contract may constitute wrongful interference with a contractual relationship.
__T__ 7. To commit the tort of trespass to land, a person does not need to actually harm the …show more content…
If no harm or injury results from an allegedly negligent act, there is no tort.
__F__ 9. Under the doctrine of comparative negligence, both the plaintiff's and the defendant's negligence are taken into consideration.
____T 10. Strict liability is liability without fault.
_F___ 11. A service mark is used to distinguish products produced by the federal government from those produced by private corporations.
__T__ 12. A patent applicant must demonstrate that the invention, discovery, or design is commercially practicable to receive a patent.
__F__ 13. It is not possible to copyright an idea.
___F_ 14. A person can reproduce copyrighted material without paying royalties for purposes such as teaching, including multiple copies for classroom use.
__T__ 15. A formula for a chemical compound may be a trade secret but a list of customers is not.
__T__ 16. Criminal defendants may be prosecuted by the persons who suffer harm as well as by the state.
__F__ 17. The prosecution in a criminal case need only establish by a preponderance of the evidence that the defendant committed the crime.
___F_ 18. Some misdemeanors are felonies.
__F__ 19. In most cases, criminal liability does not depend on the commission or omission of an