What is Law?
What is the Origin of Our Legal System?
What are the Sources of Our Laws?
What Happens When Laws Conflict?
What are the Main Types of Laws?
100
Enforceable rules of conduct in a society.
What are laws?
100
Prior to the English common law system, feudal barons acted as these within their territories.
What are judges?
100
A document that sets forth the framework of a government and its relationship to the people it governs.
What is constitution?
100
"the supreme law of the land"
What is the federal Constitution?
100
Laws that redress wrongs against an individual person.
What is civil law?
200
There are this many distinct stages in forming a legal system.
What is 4
200
During bad-weather months, judges held court in London which came to be called this.
What is the King's Bench?
200
The first ten amendments.
What are the Bill of Rights?
200
Invalid law because it conflicts with a constitution.
What is unconstitutional?
200
An offense against society.
What is a crime?
300
Gang-related shootings in our inner cities is a good example.
What is the first stage in forming a legal system - individuals take revenge for wrongs done to them.
300
The power to decide a case over another case?
What is jurisdiction?
300
Commerce between two or more states.
What is interstate?
300
These must not exceed the powers delegated to local governments by the states.
What are ordinances?
300
Law that deals with methods of enforcing legal rights and duties.
What is procedural law?
400
Law based on the current standards or customs of the people.
What is common law?
400
A remedy of the English courts to distribute fairness across the board.
What is equity?
400
Legislation at the local level.
What is an ordinance?
400
These can be reviewed by coruts to determine whether they are constitutional.
What are administrative regulations?
400
This law defines rights and duties.
What is substantive law?
500
To be a stable society, laws should be both of these.
What are predictable and flexible?
500
When courts used prior cases as a guide for deciding similar new cases.
What is precedent?
500
This is latin for "to adhere to decided cases".
What is stare decisis?
500
This has the power to nullify a court's interpretation of a statute or ordinance by abolishing or rewriting it.
What is the legislative body?
500
Private wrongs or civil offenses.
What are torts?
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