Miscellaneous
The Code of _______________ – the earliest example of legal codes governing both criminal and civil cases. 282 codes from early Babylon.
What is Hammurabi?
Law found in the Constitution and that interprets the Constitution
What is Constitutional Law?
A 12 year old is found guilty of breaking a law that wouldn’t be a crime if they were an adult (like skipping school) is called this?
A status offense.
This law relates to crime; Breaking the legal code
What is Criminal Law?
To be sent back to the state or country where the
crime was committed
What is Extradite?
Laws that local governments pass that apply within those boundaries
What is an Ordinance?
These laws cover contracts and relations between individuals
What is Civil Law?
If you were to sue a store for an injury you received while in the store, you would be practicing what type of law
What is Civil Law?
Law that deals with the actions and the wellbeing of persons who are not yet adults
What is Juvenile Law?
When judges look at decisions from previous cases to determine outcome of the current case.
What is a precedent?
Someone who files a lawsuit against someone else in a civil court
What is Plaintiff?
Law governing the armed forces
What is Military Law?
One night Mitch's trampoline blew into his neighbor's yard and dented his neighbor's car. Which type of court could his neighbor sue Mitch in?
What is Civil Court
These types of laws come from state or federal laws.
What is statutory law?
To carry out laws
What is Execute?
Who makes regulations?
What is the executive branch/the 15 cabinets?
Civil cases where the law is based on traditions and past cases rather than being written down.
What is (English) Common Law?
Beth robs a bank and gets caught. What type of law is this?
What is criminal law?
Laws passed by a local or city legislative body.
What is an Ordinance?
An organized (by subject) collection of all of the statutes passed by Congres.
What is the United States Codes?
What type of law is unalienable?
What is Natural Law?
When judges look at decisions from previous cases to determine outcome of the current case.
What is Case Law?
In Gibbons v Ogden, it was decided that a precedent had been set for Congress's broad ability to regulate interstate and some intrastate commerce. What type of law is described here?
What is CaseLaw?
What are Regulations?
A set of criminal laws that apply to all people in the military and have their own court system
Uniform Code of Military Justice