Negligence Per Se		California's court created comparative fault system allowing any percent of liablity to be imposed on a defendent
Hearsay		Liability without Fault
Breach		Burden of proof in civil court
Proposition 51		Damages diminished in proportion to negligence of injured person
Res Ipsa Loquitur		Damages the law implies or presumes to have accrued from the wrong complained of, i.e. damages for pain and suffering
Punitive		Compensation recoverable for injury
Preponderance of Evidence		All the means by which a matter of fact is established or disproved
Complaint		An agreement by two or more creating an obligation
Proximate Cause		Obligation to introduce evidence
Evidence		One who commits a tort
Defendant		Testimony in court of a statement made outside of the court to prove the truth of the matter asserted
Admissions		Degree of care of a reasonably prudent person
Tort		Failure to perform a duty
Plaintiff		Evidence of such a character that the court or judge is bound to receive it; that is, allow it to be introduced at trial
Strict Liability		To bring about; bring into existence; to make
Negligence		One who intitiates a suit
General		First pleading of plaintiff setting out facts on which claim is based
Joint		Failure to use due care
Tortfeasor		Liability to plaintiff for entire judgment
Burden of Proof		Liability to plaintiff shared by tortfeasors
Special		Damages over and above what will compensate for loss to punish and make an example of wrongdoers
Admissible		The principle pleading by the defendant responding to plaintiff's complaint
Standard of Care		One who is sued
Comparative Fault		Duty to affirmatively prove facts
Damages		Limits joint and several recovery to economic specials
Duty		Unexcused violation of an applicable statute
Pure		A private civil wrong or injury
Cause		Natural, continuous and unbroken sequence producing injury
Burden of Producing Evidence		Consequential damages caused by injury, but not necessarily the result of the injury, i.e. lost wages
Several		The thing speaks for itself
Contract		Legally sanctioned obligation
Answer		Confession, concessions or voluntary acknowlegments made by a party to the existence of certain facts