Test Your Research Skills and Learn About Your State Law

question 97

Essay

Test your research skills and learn about your state law by researching the terms negligence, contributory negligence, and comparative negligence in your state's jury instruction book, statutes, or digest. For additional understanding of these concepts, look in a legal encyclopedia, Am Jur's Proof of Facts, or other national reference sources. Note what must be proved. research may be conducted electronically or through books.

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Definitions:

Remainder Operator

An operator (usually %) used in programming to compute the remainder of the division of two numbers.

Integer Division

The process of dividing two integers resulting in an integer quotient, discarding any remainder.

Scientific Notation

A way of expressing numbers that are too big or too small to be conveniently written in decimal form, using powers of 10.

Value

A piece of data or information that can be stored in a variable, passed as a parameter, or returned by a method in programming.