Exam 1: Introduction to Legal Principles and Authorities

As used in the text,enacted law includes:

If times have changed and there is good reason not to follow a prior decision of a higher court,then a lower court may choose not to follow the precedent of a higher court in the same jurisdiction.

The highest court in state A decides to adopt the Restatements of the Law definition of malice.Once adopted,the adopted definition is:

The United States District Courts are the main trial courts in the federal system.

Examples of primary authority are:

Administrative law is usually more specific than statutory law.

In regard to subject matter jurisdiction,the basic types of courts are courts of:

A court of appeals may:

A constitution is not an example of enacted law.

Not all primary authority is mandatory authority.

The American Law Reports (ALR)is a series of books that contain the text of selected court opinions,along with scholarly commentaries on the opinions.

Legal dictionaries include definitions of legal terms and commentaries on the definitions.

The highest court in state B defines the term malice.The highest court in state A looks to the state B definition when defining the term.The state B definition is:

Which of the following are courts of limited jurisdiction?

Law reviews are usually published by law schools.