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TORTS AND TORTFEASORS

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    TORTS AND TORTFEASORS
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  • What is the term for "A legal doctrine under which charitable institutions are immune from tort liability""? (Choose correct answer: A.doctrine of sovereign immunity ; B. doctrine of charitable immunity)
    B. doctrine of charitable immunity
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  • What is the term for "A legal doctrine under which governmental bodies are immune from tort liability"? (Choose correct answer: A.doctrine of respondeat superior; B.doctrine of sovereign immunity )
    B.doctrine of sovereign immunity
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  • What is the term for "Liability under which all joint tortfeasors must be named as defendants in a lawsuit"? (Choose correct answer: A. joint liability; B. joint tortfeasors)
    A. joint liability
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  • What is the term for "Liability under which joint tortfeasors may be sued separately in a lawsuit"?(Choose correct answer:  A.imputed liability; B.several liability)
    B. several liability
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  • What is the term for "The right to share a loss among joint tortfeasors or other codefendants"? (Choose correct answer: A.right of contribution; B. principal)
    A.right of contribution
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  • what is another term for "Exempt" from the tort liability?
    immune
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  • Another term for employees?
    Servants
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  • What is the term for “People who authorize agents to act on their behalf and subject to their control”?
    principals
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  • What is the term for “Two or more people who participate in the commission of a tort” ?
    joint tortfeasors
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  • what is another name of an employer?
    master
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  • Laws providing that physicians, nurses, and certain other medical personnel will not be liable for negligent acts that occur when they voluntarily, without a fee, render emergency care of the ordinary course of their practice
    Good Samaritan statutes
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  • 6. What is the term for "Vicarious responsibility for the torts committed by another person"? (Choose correct answer: A.Imputed Liability B. Vicarious liability C. Both).
    C. Both
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  • What is the term for "people authorized to act" ?
    agents
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