| A | B |
| Ethics & responsibility codes for lawyers | Rules regulating competency, confidentiality, fairness among others |
| business ethics | area of law governing responsibilities of corporations |
| punitive damages | money given to punish an offender |
| SEC | agency regulating unfair market practices |
| Mass. General Law Chapter 268, Section 40 | The Good Samaritan law in MA. |
| Ethics | the study of morality |
| normative ethicians | ethnicians concerned with modern issues |
| police power | state's power to enforce laws to protect the public |
| privity | having knowledge and participation in something |
| Federal Trade Commission Act | law to manage monopolistic practices |
| common law marriage | informal state-recognized marriage by agreement |
| Title 1 US Code Section 7 | law defining marriage and spouse |
| a family | legal relationship established by birth, marriage, or adoption |
| civil union | equivalent of marriage for same sex couples |
| independent adoption | parents select prospective parents w/o adoption agency |