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Types of Law
Law Through the Years
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Criminal law falls into this major division of Canadian law.
What is public law?
100
With an eye for an eye, it remains one of our earliest codified laws.
What is the Code of Hammurabi?
100
The 1982 Constitution was largely shepherded by this Prime Minister.
What Pierre Elliot Trudeau?
100
It's the final court of appeal in Canada.
What is the Supreme Court of Canada?
100
It's the branch of government which creates law.
What is legislative.
200
Family Law falls into this major division of Canadian law.
What is private law?
200
He was given 10 Commandments from God. They became the basis for much of our morality.
Who is Moses?
200
It was the name of the Canadian constitution for 115 years.
What is the British North America Act?
200
This Canadian court system is where most minor criminal cases are processed.
What is provincial court?
200
It's the right to a speedy trial and to be advised of the charge against you.
What is habeas corpus?
300
It applies to all subjects in an area, is built by judges establishing precedent in similar cases.
What is common law?
300
This collection gathered together 1000 years of patchwork Roman laws into one clearer code.
What is the Justinian Code?
300
Constitutions are very difficult to change, making them of greater force than laws passed by this body of Canadian government.
What is Parliament / the HOC?
300
IT's the branch of government responsible for implementing established laws.
What is the executive?
300
It's a ruling which serves as the standard for all other similar cases.
What is precedent?
400
It's the kind of law created by parliaments. Don't just stand there!
What is statute law?
400
The Magna Carta helped codify the rule of law. It translates from the Latin as this.
What is the Great Charter?
400
These key sections of the BNA Act lay out the federal and provincial powers.
What are sections 91 and 92?
400
Tax court falls under this stream of the Canadian court system
What is federal courts?
400

This French Canadian restaurant owner successfully sued the Quebec Premier when he was arbitrarily punished for supporting Jehovah's witnesses. 

Who is Frank Roncarelli?

500
Constitutional law falls into this major division of Canadian law.
What is public law?
500
To this day, this term refers to something which is needlessly punitive or punishing.
What is Draconian?
500
Residual powers in our federal system fall to this level of government.
What is the federal government?
500
Two numbers: One is the total number of Supreme Court justices. The other is the number that must be from Quebec.
What are 9 and 3?
500
PE Trudeau had to negotiate with the provinces to agree on how to change his new constitution. The solution was known as this.
What is the amending formula?