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geoffrey

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The law permits certain defensive actions to be taken without incurring tort liability. Courts would be unlikely to allow which defensive actions?
 a. shooting a man who is raping a woman at knife-point
  b. shooting someone who attempts to steal your new Lexus c. holding someone down who has hit your friend
  d. grabbing and holding someone who attempts to steal your new Lexus e. c and d

Question 2

Which of the following is an example of something regulated by a zoning rule:
 a. ethnicity of people in a neighborhood b. tax burdens
  c. building height
  d. number of judges appointed to a county
  e. all of the other specific choices are correct



juliaf

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Answer to Question 1

b

Answer to Question 2

c



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