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Test (law)

Commonly applied method of evaluation used to resolve matters of jurisprudence

Commonly applied method of evaluation used to resolve matters of jurisprudence

In law, a test is a commonly applied method of evaluation used to resolve matters of jurisprudence.{{cite book

Tests are often formulated from the logical analysis of a judicial decision or a court order where it appears that a finder of fact or the court made a particular decision after contemplating a well-defined set of circumstances. It is assumed that evaluating any given set of circumstances under a legal test will lead to an unambiguous and repeatable result.

International law

  • Berne three-step test
  • Habitual residence test
  • Caroline test

Common law

  • "But-for" test

Canada

  • Andrews test
  • Air of reality test (see also R v Fontaine)
  • Assumed Jurisdiction test
  • Central management and control test
  • Collins Test
  • Community Standards of Tolerance test
  • Conway Test
  • Degradation or Dehumanization Test
  • Denial of Bail test
  • Gladue Test
  • Grant Test (see also R v Suberu)
  • Indecent conduct test (see also R v Kouri)
  • Integral to Distinctive Culture test
  • Interjurisdictional immunity
  • Internal Necessities Test or Artistic Defense
  • Meiorin test
  • Law test
  • Multiple Access test
  • Necessarily incidental doctrine
  • Oakes test
  • Overbreadth test
  • Patent unreasonableness test
  • Pith and substance test (see also R v Morgentaler)
  • Provincial Inability test
  • Purpose and form test
  • Real and Substantial Connection test
  • Reasonableness Standard
  • Sheppard Test
  • Smithers test
  • Sparrow test
  • Test for Aboriginal Title
  • Test for bias
  • Test for confusion
  • Test for detention
  • Test for exclusion of evidence
  • Test for the inclusion of hearsay evidence
  • Test for materiality
  • Test for material causation/contribution
  • Test for new principle of fundamental justice
  • Test for Infringement of Title
  • Test for inducement or contributory patent infringement
  • Tests for paramountcy – Express contradiction test & Frustrate the purpose test
  • Test for patent infringement
  • Test for peace, order, and good government (see also R v Crown Zellerbach Canada Ltd)
  • Void for Vagueness test
  • Waterfield Test
  • Wigmore Test

European Convention on Human Rights

  • Necessary in a democratic society

United Kingdom

  • Bolam test
  • Hicklin test
  • Wednesbury unreasonableness test

United States

  • Aguilar-Spinelli test
  • Bad tendency
  • Calculus of negligence test (Hand rule)
  • Clear and present danger
  • Consumer expectations test
  • Daubert standard
  • Frye test
  • Imminent lawless action
  • Insurance bad faith test
  • Lemon test
  • McDonnell Douglas burden-shifting framework
  • Miller test
    • SLAPS test
  • Mt. Healthy test
  • Risk-utility test
  • Reasonable expectation of privacy
  • Sherbert test
  • Shocks the conscience test
  • Wambaugh's inversion test
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