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| Assault | A threat or attempt to inflict offensive physical contact poor bodily harm on a person that puts a person in immediate danger of or in apprehension of such harm out contact.
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| Battery | Bodily harm our unlawful touching of another; treating a patient without consent.
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| Civil lawsuit | A noncriminal lawsuit for damages, usually based on tort, contract, labor, our privacy.
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| Common law | Law off precedents built on a case-by-case basis and established by citing interpretation of existing laws by judges on previous suits. "Judge made law".
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| Criminal law | State our federal government law coveting violations of written criminal code or statute.
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| Defendant | Person or entity sued.
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| Executive branch | President of the United States or Governor.
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| Felony | Serious crime punishableby relatively large fines and/or imprisonment for more than one year and in some cases, death.
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| Judicial branch | Federal constitutional court system
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| Law | The foundation of statutes, rules, and regulations that govern people, relationships, behaviors, and interactions with the state, society, and federal government.
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| Legislative branch | Senate and the House
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| Malpractice | The failure of a professional to meet the standard of conduct that a reasonable and prudent member of the profession would exercise in a similar circumstance; out results in harm.
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| Medical ethics | Principles based on the medical profession that determine moral behavior.
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| Medical law | Laws that are prescribed specifically pertaining to medical field.
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| Misdemeanor | Lesser crime punishable by usually modest fines or penalties established by the state or federal government and/or imprisonment of less than one year.
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| Negligence | The failure to use such care as a reasonably prudent and careful person would under similar circumstances; an act of omission or failure to do what a person of ordinary prudence would have done under similar circumstances.
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| Plaintiff | A person or entity bringing a suit our claim.
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| Standard of care | The average knowledge and expertise that one can expect from a health-care professional on the same area or field and with the same base of training.
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| Statute of limitations | Defense against tort action; requires that a claim be filed within a specific amount of time of discovering that a wrong had been committed.
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| Tort | A wrongful act, not including a breach of contract our trust, that results in injury to another person, property, reputation, or the like, and for which the injured party is entitled to compensation .
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