Match Each Statement with the Correct Term Below

question 130

Multiple Choice

Match each statement with the correct term below.
-inquisitorial system

• A)The judiciary initiates, conducts, and decides cases.
• B)Part of private law dealing with rights and duties of individuals among themselves.
• C)A system of law based upon Roman law which depends upon comprehensive legislative enactments and the inquisitorial system of determining disputes.
• D)A system of law first developed in England that relies heavily on the judiciary as a source of law and on the adversary system for settling disputes.
• E)Theory that actions must be judged by their motives and means as well as their results.
• F)The law establishing duties which, if violated, constitute a wrong against the entire community.
• G)A legal obligation requiring a person to perform or refrain from performing an act.
• H)A body of law based upon principles distinct from common law and providing remedies not available at law.
• I)A court order requiring a party to do or to refrain from doing a specified act.
• J)A general legal principle formulated by equity courts.
• K)Person who initiates a civil suit.
• L)Rules for enforcing substantive law.
• M)Theory stressing equality of opportunity rather than results.
• N)An equitable remedy rewriting a contract to conform to the original intent of the parties.
• O)An equitable remedy invalidating a contract by setting it aside.
• P)Theory that moral actions are those that produce the greatest net pleasure compared with net pain.
• Q)A court order directing a party to perform a contractual duty.
• R)The principle found in common law systems that requires courts to apply rules decided in prior cases in deciding substantially similar cases.
• S)Basic law that creates rights and duties.
• T)Theory that actions must be judged by what individuals subjectively feel is right or wrong for themselves.

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