Consideration may be given in exchange for an act or a promise.

For a person to be convicted of criminal behavior, the state must ________.

Some courts hold defendants liable only for the reasonably foreseeable results of their negligence.

If the consideration given by the contracting parties has legal value, courts generally do not concern themselves with whether the parties received any actual value in exchange for their promises or whether the promises or performances exchanged were of relatively equal value.

In terms of the insanity defense, all jurisdictions currently recognize the irresistible impulse test.

Rules as to how a trial is conducted are part of procedural law.

Res ipsa loquitur means “identify the proximate cause.”

If parties to a dispute are from different states, and the amount involved in the dispute is $75,000 or more, the plaintiff may choose to bring suit in either state or federal court.

Civil law defines breaches of duty to society at large.

Negligence is an unintentional breach of duty by the defendant that results in harm to another.