Chapter 1
Introduction to Law and Legal Reasoning
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1. One of the important functions of law is to provide:
a. clerks.
b. stability and predictability.
c. a distorted sense of community.
d. jurisprudence.

2. One of the oldest and most significant schools of jurisprudential thought is:
a. the administrative law school.
b. the environmental law school.
c. the legal realists.
d. the natural law school.

3. Legal positivists believe that:
a. there can be no higher law than the law of nature.
b. there can be no higher law than the law created by a nation's government.
c. the opinions of legal realists constitute the highest law.
d. law must be good to be law.

4. The American legal system has been strongly influenced by:
a. Russian law.
b. Italian law.
c. English law.
d. Mexican law.

5. The common law may be described as:
a. general legal principles that evolved over time through court decisions.
b. a body of rules governing the ownership of the oceans.
c. an index of opinions by law professors.
d. rules issued by an administrative agency.

6. Remedies are best described as:
a. position papers.
b. legal principles that underlie previous court decisions.
c. a statute against theft.
d. the legal means used to recover a right or redress a wrong.

7. A decree of specific performance is:
a. an order to immediately stop doing something.
b. an equitable remedy.
c. the same thing as monetary damages.
d. an action at law

8. A cornerstone of both the American and English legal systems is:
a. the doctrine of res nullius.
b. the doctrine of stare decisis.
c. the doctrine of plumbago.
d. the doctrine of judicial unfitness.

9. Among the benefits of following precedent are:
a. greater inefficiency.
b. less predictability.
c. greater stability.
d. less reliability.

10. If there is no binding precedent for a particular case, a court may:
a. refuse to decide the case.
b. postpone decision making indefinitely.
c. rely on public policy or relevant social customs to reach a decision.
d. immediately require the United States Supreme Court to reach a decision in the case.

11. The IRAC method of legal reasoning DOES NOT include which of the following steps?
a. Developing cutting-edge public policy.
b. Ascertaining the facts and issues of the case.
c. Determining the rule of law that applies in the case.
d. Applying the rule of law to the facts and issues of the case.

12. When you reason by analogy, you:
a. issue an administrative rule.
b. rely totally on syllogisms.
c. compare the facts in a case before you to facts in other cases to see if the same legal rules should apply.
d. rely only on constitutional law to reach your decision.

13. Primary sources of law include:
a. scholarly articles in law reviews.
b. opinions expressed in newspaper stories.
c. rules issued by a chamber of commerce.
d. ordinances passed by a city council.

14. Ordinances may be considered:
a. administrative law.
b. stare decisis.
c. statutory law.
d. uniform law.

15. The Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) has been adopted, in whole or in part:
a. by no states; it is simply too complex.
b. by all states, in whole or in part.
c. by the southern states only, because of its focus on agricultural issues.
d. by half of the states.

16. Administrative agencies are created to:
a. develop a uniform set of rules to deal with commercial relations.
b. perform a specific government function.
c. provide more efficient office management.
d. act as a buffer between the executive and legislative branches of government.

17. Rules issued by various administrative agencies affect:
a. only nonprofit institutions.
b. only the size and scope of local government.
c. a small number of businesses in the United States.
d. virtually every aspect of a business's operations.

18. Another term for case law is:
a. the common law.
b. regulatory law.
c. international law.
d. the law of Indian Affairs.

19. Generally speaking, the Restatements of Law:
a. are no longer in use.
b. are used only by courts of equity.
c. summarize the common law rules followed by most states.
d. summarize the Federal Register rules.

20. Civil law may best be described as:
a. the law that governs relations between persons and between persons and the government.
b. the common law of taxes.
c. federal, not state, law.
d. the law governing the relations among nations.

21. When you are engaged in finding the law, a citation means:
a. a speeding ticket.
b. a reference to a publication in which a legal authority can be found.
c. the location of a trial court.
d. a way to jump bail.

22. All existing federal laws are compiled in:
a. the United Nations Chronicle.
b. the Atlantic Reporter.
c. the United States Code.
d. the Doomsday Chronicle.

23. Rules and regulations that have been issued by federal administrative agencies are initially published in:
a. the Federal Register.
b. the United States Code.
c. the Supreme Court Reporter.
d. the New York Times.

24. The decisions of the appellate court of Arizona will be found in:
a. the United States Code.
b. the Arizona Reports.
c. the Washington Post.
d. the United States Reports.

25. The official edition of all decisions of the United States Supreme Court is:
a. the Lawyers' Edition of the Supreme Court Reports.
b. the Supreme Court Digest.
c. the United States Reports.
d. the Chancellor's Reports.


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