Question: What is living law mostly made up of?
Answer: state law

Question: In order for a unconstitutional statue to disappear, it has to be deleted by?  
Answer: a subsequent statute

Question: What has remained on the books after they were ruled unconstitutional? 
Answer: federal and state statutes

Question: What principle  states no lower court will enforce an unconstitutional statue? 
Answer: stare decisis

Question: Who can reverse an unconstitutional court ruling?
Answer: the Supreme Court

Question: What must happen to a statute for it to become unconstitutional?
Answer: it must be deleted

Question: What can delete a statute and make it unconstitutional?
Answer: a subsequent statute

Question: Some federal and state statutes remain on the books for how long after they are ruled unconstitutional?
Answer: decades

Question: What decisis states that no lower court will enforce an unconstitutional statute?
Answer: the principle of stare decisis

Question: Any court that enforces an unconstitutional statute will be overturned by what court?
Answer: the Supreme Court

Question: If a statute is unconstitutional, how is it removed?
Answer: deleted by a subsequent statute

Question: What happens when an unconstitutional statute remains on the books?
Answer: no sensible lower court will enforce

Question: What would happen if a lower court tried to enforce an unconstitutional statute?
Answer: reversed by the Supreme Court

Question: What must happen before the Supreme Court will reverse a decision by a lower court refusing to uphold a constitutional law?
Answer: constitutionality has been expressly established in prior cases

Question: What would happen if a lower court refused to uphold a constitutional law?
Answer: risk reversal by the Supreme Court

Question: The rule of liability for defective products originated from what law?
Answer: law of warranty

Question: In what case did the supreme court of California, throw away warranties and strictly impose liability for defective products?
Answer: Greenman v. Yuba Power Products

Question: What was most influential American 20th century tort law?
Answer: rule of strict liability for defective products

Question: What year was the case Greenman v. Yuba Power products?
Answer: 1963

Question: What is one of the most influential changes to tort law?
Answer: rule of strict liability for defective products

Question: Who was at the forefront of the fight to change the laws on defective products?
Answer: Roger J. Traynor

Question: When was the Greenman rule in Section 402A of the Restatement (Second) of Torts published?
Answer: 1964

Question: What case was fundamental in the fight to change warranty laws?
Answer: Greenman v. Yuba Power Products

Question: When was the Restatement (Second) of Torts beginning to be adopted outside of the United States?
Answer: 1985

Question: What law covers wrongs which humans can inflict upon each other?
Answer: Tort law

Question: Why can American tort law not be easily summarized?
Answer: because of its immense size and diversity

Question: While attempting to standardize tort law, multiple versions of tort law have come about, what are there versions called?
Answer: Restatement of Torts

Question: What covers crimes of human against human?
Answer: Tort law

Question: What does tort law overlap with?
Answer: wrongs also punishable by criminal law

Question: What is attempting to standardize the tort law system?
Answer: Restatement of Torts

Question: What is the Restatement of Torts not successfull as a whole yet?
Answer: many states have chosen to adopt only certain sections

Question: Why is tort law hard to standardize?
Answer: immense size and diversity

Question: A lot of American common law diverged from where?
Answer: English common law

Question: When would American courts follow post-revolution commonwealth rulings?
Answer: there is no American ruling on point

Question: Courts in commonwealth nations are often influenced by what?
Answer: by each other's rulings

Question: Most modern American common law came from what kind of law?
Answer: English common law

Question: Couts of commonwealth nations are often influenced by who's rulings?
Answer: each other's

Question: What rulings do American courts rarely follow?
Answer: post-Revolution Commonwealth rulings

Question: What is one reason American courts may follow a post Revolutionary Commonwealth ruling under what circumstances?
Answer: there is no American ruling on point

Question: How close is current American law to English law?
Answer: diverged significantly

Question: What differs about American and English law?
Answer: American courts rarely follow post-Revolution Commonwealth rulings

Question: When would American law be more likely to follow English law?
Answer: no American ruling on point

Question: How close do the issues have to be in order for an English law to be used?
Answer: nearly identical

Question: Reception statues are generally the same as what law?
Answer: the common law of England

Question: Who sites pre-revolution cases when discussion evolution of judge-made law? 
Answer: contemporary U.S. courts

Question: Which US State did not  enact reception statues? 
Answer: Louisiana

Question: What do reception statutes state is the law of the state?
Answer: common law of England

Question: What is the only state to not enact reception statutes?
Answer: Louisiana

Question: Some reception statutes impose what?
Answer: a specific cutoff date

Question: Modern courts often cite which period in history cases when discussing changes in law?
Answer: pre-Revolution

Question: What are reception statutes?
Answer: the common law of England (particularly judge-made law) is the law of the state

Question: When are reception statutes invaild?
Answer: repugnant to domestic law or indigenous conditions

Question: Where did the bulk of the US's starting laws come from?
Answer: English law

Question: Which is the only stste without reception statutes?
Answer: Louisiana

Question: What kind of case would a contemporary lawyer discuss when talking about an ancient judge-made common law principle?
Answer: pre-Revolution

Question: early on American courts cited what cases?
Answer: contemporary English

Question: What century were apellate decisions regularly reported?
Answer: 19th century

Question: When did cotations to English decisions gradually disappear?
Answer: 19th century

Question: How many published reports of American volumes existed in 1810?
Answer: eighteen

Question: How many published reports of American volumes existed in 1910?
Answer: over 8,000

Question: When did Americans really begin to establish their own laws independent of the English?
Answer: mid-19th century

Question: How many published volumes of American reports were released in 1810?
Answer: eighteen

Question: By 1910, how many volumes of American reports were there?
Answer: 8,000

Question: What did the lawmakers think of the increase in reports?
Answer: By 1879 one of the delegates to the California constitutional convention was already complaining

Question: What were the lawmakers beginning to drown in?
Answer: judicial literature

Question: What does federal law come from?
Answer: the Constitution

Question: What gives Congress limited power to enact statutes?
Answer: the Constitution

Question: What do you call the official compilation and codification of federal statutes?
Answer: The United States Code

Question: Where are regulations published?
Answer: in the Federal Register

Question: Where are regulations codified into?
Answer: Code of Federal Regulations

Question: Where does federal law begin?
Answer: the Constitution

Question: Who has the power and right to enact statutes for interstate dealings?
Answer: Congress

Question: What is the compilation and codification of all federal statutes?
Answer: The United States Code