Torts Exam Notes Intentional Torts Trespass to the Person Battery - directly and intentionally (or negligently) bringing about a harmful or offensive contact with the person of another - the ‘body is inviolate‚ and that any touching of another person‚ however slight may amount to a battery’ - Rixon - doesn’t have to cause harm - Rixon v Starcity Casino - Collins v Wilcock - no requirement of hostility or anger - Wilson v Pringle - In Re F - exception is made
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Services Attestation Services Example: Audits of Financial Statements‚ Examinations of Internal Control Other Assurance Services Example: CPA ElderCare Prime Plus Services NonAssurance Services Tax Services Management Consulting Services Other Notes: Reliability reduces information risk. Attestation Services To attest to information means to provide assurance as to its reliability Attest engagement: A practitioner is engaged to issue or does issue an examination‚ a review‚ or an agreed-upon
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MICROBIOLOGY STUDY QUESTI0NS - EXAM 1 1. Briefly discuss the theory of spontaneous generation. What scientific evidence was presented to disprove the theory? Spontaneous generation- theory (until second half of 19th century) that some forms of life can arise spontaneously from nonliving matter‚ i.e. maggots from corpses Redi (1668)- demonstrated maggots do not arise from decaying meat by filling two jars with decaying meat (one sealed‚ one unsealed). Unsealed jar developed larvae and sealed did
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HIST 2111 FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE PART I: ESSAY: write a thorough essay in response to one of the following questions (worth 60% of exam): 1. Why do historians often call the American Civil War the “Second American Revolution?” • At the end of the war Congress reshaped political and Economic character • national currency and banking • Transcontinental railroad and telegraph-became more unified with national government‚ economy‚ and spirit American development
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TORTS Table of Contents Breach of Duty 3 General Principles for Establish a Breach of Duty 3 The Calculus of Negligence 4 Who is the Reasonable Person? 9 Causation 13 Factual Causation under the Common Law 13 Factual Causation under Statute 16 Novus Actus Interveniens 18 Successive Causes 20 Exceptional Cases 21 Remoteness 24 Foreseeability of Damage 24 Kind of Injury and Manner of its Occurrence 25 Eggshell Skull Rule 26 Concurrent Liability 28 Vicarious Liability 28 Non-delegable
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Exam Notes - PVL 3704 UNJUSTIFIED ENRICHMENT LIABILITY STUDY UNIT 1 - Overview Explain why there is a need for unjustified enrichment liability in any developed system of law? Liability for enrichment is necessary in any developed legal system. There are cases in which one person obtains assets belonging to another person in circumstances where there are no grounds for the transfer of such assets and where there is nothing to justify their retention by the receiver. Example 1: In accordance
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BLAW 243 STUDY GUIDE Wednesday‚ January 11 2010 I. What is law? a. Rules rules come from who ever is in charge b. Golden Rule: those who have the gold make the rules c. We as people came upon 2 different ways of making rules i. The Romans: wrote everything down and gave us statutory law 1. Statute: laws that are written down. Passed by major legislature. 2. Ordinance: a statute local in nature. Have limited effect because they’re in a limited area. 3. US government creates statutes
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Chapter (1) Definition of Quality: The quality of a product (article or service) is its ability to satisfy or exceed customers’ needs and expectations. “Bergman and Klefsjö” Customers are: those we want to produce value/s to. Quality Dimensions: 8-Quality dimensions of a good: (Pressed Factory) 1- Performance: such as speed‚ capacity‚ useful life‚ size. 2- Reliability: Is a measure of how often problems occur and how serious they are. 3- Environmental Impact: A measure
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131 Chapter 9 Notes – Sentencing. Chapter Summary The text discusses several important aspects of sentencing in Chapter 9; it also describes five goals of contemporary sentencing: retribution‚ incapacitation‚ deterrence‚ rehabilitation‚ and restoration. Retribution corresponds to the just deserts model of sentencing and is best understood from the biblical reference to “eye for an eye‚ tooth for a tooth.” Incapacitation seeks to isolate offenders from society. Deterrence‚ both specific and general
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1. Which weighs more? The modern piano 2. Which instrument responds more rapidly to the player’s touch? The 18th-c. piano 3. An extended range of available notes (seven-and-a-quarter octaves‚ instead of just five) is a feature of the modern piano 4. If the relationship between two (or more) musical tones is simple and stable‚ we call the combination consonant 5. When composers combine tones successively‚ we call the resulting series a melody 6. By the late 18th century‚ the
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