13.4 Review

What is the code of conduct governing society?

• Constitutional law

• Statutory law

• Common law

• Administrative law

Which type of law is based on judicial interpretations of the U.S. and State constitutions?

• Administrative law

• Constitutional law

• Common law

• Statutory law

What type of law is composed of rules, orders, and regulations issued by executive officers?

• Statutory law

• Administrative law

• Common law

• Constitutional law

What is the unwritten law that courts have developed over centuries from generally accepted ideas of right and wrong?

• Constitutional law

• Administrative law

• Statutory law

• Common law

What type of law is mostly remedial and developed to provide fairness, justice, and right?

• Equity

• Civil law

• Common law

• Criminal law

Which type of law involves cases brought against people accused of committing crimes?

• Criminal law

• Common law

• Civil law

• Equity

What is the greater crime, punishable by a heavy fine, imprisonment, or death?

• Equity

• Tort

• Misdemeanor

• Felony

What is a wrongful act that involves injury to one’s person, property, or reputation?

• Tort

• Misdemeanor

• Felony

• Equity

What is a group of people selected to hear evidence and decide questions of fact in a court case?

• Bench trial

• Information

• Petit jury

• Grand jury

Which type of jury decides if the State has enough evidence to try someone?

• Bench trial

• Information

• Petit jury

• Grand jury