Exam 6: Civil Procedure and Trial Practice

The common law doctrine by which the state and federal governments have been immune from liability for harm suffered by the tortious conduct of its employees is ___________.

Evidence furnished by physical things themselves is ___________ evidence.

Comparative negligence generally requires that damages among multiple defendants be divided ___________.

Questions of law are decided by the ___________.

Knowing that a danger exists and voluntarily accepting the risk by taking a chance and exposing oneself to it is ___________.

The order that calls for a document to be produced by an organization is called a ___________.

A sworn statement from a witness that can be used as evidence at a trial is called a ___________.

The ___________ rule prescribes that well-known facts (e.g., that fractures need prompt attention and that two X-rays of the same patient might show different results) need not be proven, but, rather, they are recognized by the court as fact.

The common law doctrine that holds a physician, for example, responsible for the acts of a nurse in the operating room when the physician directs the nurse to perform a particular medical act in the operating room and the nurse then performs it negligently and consequently injures the patient is the ___________.