Explain a distress for rent proceeding.
What will be an ideal response?
A distress for rent proceeding is a summary proceeding permitted in some states as a remedy for collecting rent owed. The landlord files suit, posts a bond, and obtains a distress writ ordering the sheriff to levy upon the personal property of the tenant, sell it, and distribute the proceeds to the landlord.
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An intrafamily tort is a tort committed:
A. against a family member by someone outside the family. B. by a family member against someone outside the family. C. by one family member against another. D. by a member of a family against anyone else.
A person who is invited onto business premises by the owner for business purposes is called:
a. A licensee b. A business invitee c. A business guest d. All of these choices are correct e. A licensee and a business guest
Why is an accurate description essential?
What will be an ideal response?
The concept that denied an injured family member from recovering in tort, so that only the male head of the household could sue, is:
a. lex talionis b. nulle pene sene lege c. pater familias d. dulce decorum est e. e pluribus unum