Types and branches of law
Name a minimum of 4 types of law
Domestic Law, International Law, Substantive Law, Procedural Law, Public Law, Private Law
What's the application of law known as?
Jurisprudence
Where can the roots of Canadian law be traced back to?
both early history and more modern times
What's the law?
A set of rules that govern the behavior of citizens. It is usually accompanied by a punishment to “encourage” people to obey the law.
Aboriginal law deals with the codified system that manages economic transactions (Taxes).
False
Name 5 of the types of public law.
Commercial Law, Contract Law, Labour Law, Family Law, Property Law, Tort Law, Wills & Estates
What are customs?
long-standing practices which have been accepted by everyone, making them no longer considered official laws.
How did the British law influence Canada?
It shaped the structure of the courts, the role of judges and juries, and key legal principles.
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Conventions are formal agreements that impose some sort of responsibility on involved parties.
True
What's the difference between private and public law?
Private: A collection of guidelines that control interactions between private parties or organizations and public entities
Public: The area of law that deals with a person's particular obligations and relationships with others.
What's law sometimes referred to as?
The science or philosophy of law
Did the reign of Henry II in Britain have a positive or negative impact? Name at least 1 reason.
Positive.
- The laws became more unified.
- They moved away from varied methods of determining who was guilty and innocent that were used by local lords.
- Traveling judges were introduced to apply the laws consistently in different regions.
What are new laws created through?
New laws are created through the courts' precedent system, relying on the integrity and unbiased decision-making of judges.
Unlike customs, religion is a root of law.
False. They both are.
What's substantive law?
The set of laws that govern how members of a society are to behave.
Name the 5 roots of law.
Conventions, religion, history, customs, philosophy
How did traveling judges base their decisions? Name at least 2.
Their decisions were formed based on the case law, ensuring that there was predictability, stability, and fairness.
What are new laws created through?
New laws are created through the courts' precedent system, relying on the integrity and unbiased decision-making of judges.
Wills and estates include contract law.
True. There's a different law for contracts, but that doesn't mean you don't apply them through wills and estate.
What's Jurisprudence?
A branch of legal philosophy that seeks to analyze, explain, classify, and criticize entire bodies of law.
Give an example of how religion had based Canadian law.
Shopping on Sundays used to be prohibited, and pupils in public schools were required to say the Lord's Prayer every morning
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Name a good reason to use precedents.
It promotes the predictable and consistent development of legal principles.
Landmark cases aren't legally significant.
False