A ______ Is a Legal Principle Expressed for the First

question 45

Multiple Choice

A ______ is a legal principle expressed for the first time in court decision.

• A) statutory law
• B) stare decisis
• C) case law
• D) precedent

Learn the significance of the chain of custody and the movement of evidence in legal proceedings.

Understand the fundamental concepts and purposes of pleadings in litigation.

Explain the process of litigation file maintenance throughout the progression of a case.

Grasp the creation, function, and use of a deposition transcript in trials.

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Definitions:

Type I Error

The mistaken dismissal of a valid null hypothesis, commonly known as a "false positive."

Significance Level

The probability of rejecting the null hypothesis in a statistical test when it is actually true; often denoted by alpha.

Effect Size

A quantifiable measure of the magnitude of the difference between groups or the strength of a relationship in research findings.

Cohen

A surname often associated with statistical measures of effect size, such as Cohen's d for measuring the difference between two means.