categories of law
Type of law that deals with individuals and the state
What is Public law?
Appoints elected representatives to hold the additional position of Cabinet member
what is a Prime Minister
The role name of the witness who was said to have witnessed things with their eyes in the move My Cousin Vinny
What is an eye witness?
No one is above the law and those who enforce the law must do it so that it is equal to everyone.
What Is The Rule of Law?
Law(s) that has the most influence on Canadian law
What is the Mosaic and Justinian?
Prohibits and punishes behaviour that causes harm to others, such as murder, robbery, or assault
What is a Criminal law?
The level where a bill is presented to the House of Common, undergoes 3 reading and committee stage.
What is a Federal level
The category of law that deals with the criminal negligence charge in the Tutton case
What is Criminal Law?
The process when judges make decisions on new cases.
What is Stare Decisis
The code that inspired the modern form of code
What is The Code of Hammurabi?
Holds persons or private organisations responsible for damage they cause another person as a result of accidental or deliberate action
What is a Tort Law?
The reading when the bill is publicly read for the first time, there is no debate
What is the first reading?
The level of court that Roncarelli appealed to in the Roncarelli v Duplessis case?
What is the Supreme Court of Canada?
The two basic pieces of legislation that compromise the Canadian Constitution
what is the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the BNA Act.
The code that influenced the Quebec civil code
What is the Napoleonic code
Type of law that governates the relationship between government departments, agencies and boards
What is Administrative law?
The branch known as the parliament is divided into the House of Commons and the Senate.
what is a Legislative Branch?
The type of witness that Vinny’s fiance was labeled as in the movie My Cousin Vinny
What is an expert witness?
The part of the Constitution that sets out the responsibilities of different levels and branches of government
What is the BNA Act?
Sets of biblical principles, and Herbew law can be found within it.
What is the Ten Commandments
Covers marriage, property division upon separation, custody and support of children and divorce.
what is Family Law?
The branch that is made up of the prime minister, the Cabinet, and the public/civil service.
What is an Executive Branch
The legal term that was used when the parents in the Tutton case were found guilty in a final decision?
What is a final verdict?
Canada was founded on 3 traditions of law.
Common law, civil law, indigenous traditions
Law said to have been revealed to Moses by god and begins with the ten commandments
what is the Mosaic law?