Types of Law
This type of law applies to business situations and transactions.
What is Business Law?
These are laws organized into groups.
What is a Code?
This means the power to decide a case.
What is Jurisdiction?
These laws are created by a town, city, or county's board of representatives.
What is an Ordinance?
What was the "word" Ms Bell used to get students to read all of her instructions in google classroom?
What is "Done"?
This type of law governs individuals’ rights to live in peace and deals with behavior that is offensive or dangerous to the public, society, or state.
What is Criminal Law?
These laws are enacted by state and federal legislatures and act for their citizens
What is a Statute?
This means fairness.
What is Equity?
In the United States, these rights are primarily outlined in the first 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution,
What are the Bill of Rights.
What branch of law specifies the step-by-step methods used to enforce legal rights in court?
What is Procedural law?
This type of law refers to the group of laws that allows individuals to seek remedies for wrongs done to them.
What is Civil Law?
This type of law is created by the judicial branch of government.
What is Case Law?
A defendant over whom jurisdiction has been established must receive adequate notice and a proper hearing. This is known as this.
What is Due Process?
This refers to the rules governing government agencies' procedures.
What is Administrative Law?
Personal or cultural principles and standards that guide a person's sense of right and wrong?
What are morals?
This type of law explains how people are expected to behave and defines crimes and punishments.
What is Substantive Law?
This legal system is based on the current standards and customs of people.
What is Common Law?
This is a collection of standards of conduct and moral judgment used to determine what is right and wrong.
What is Ethics?
This is a document that sets forth the framework of a government and its relationship to the people it governs.
What is a Constitution?
An open, peaceful violation of law to protest its alleged, or supposed, injustice.
What is Civil disobedience?
This type of law explains how courts enforce substantive laws and includes the legal rules and principles that protect an individual's rights.
What is Procedural Law?
Latin for “let the decision stand,” this doctrine requires lower courts to follow established case law when deciding similar cases.
What is Stare Decisis?
These are enforceable rules of conduct in a society that typically reflect the culture and circumstances that create them.
What are Laws?
This type of law is created by leaders to prevent wrongs from occurring in the first place.
What is Positive Law?
Governmental bodies formed to carry out particular laws.
What is Administrative agency?