Chapter 1

Question 1

Set of rules created by state institutions which make laws through the authority of the state.

Answer 1

Law

Question 2

Law is a system of rules that a society or government develops in order to deal with crime, business agreements, and social relationships.

Answer 2

Collins

Question 3

defined law as a binding custom or practice of a community: a rule of conduct or action prescribed or formally recognized as binding or enforced by a controlling authority.

Answer 3

Webster (2018)

Question 4

Important factors in law-making

Answer 4

+ the authority of the state is needed
+ only certain institutions can make law
+ the institutions that make law have been given the authority to do so
+ sanctions exist for breaking the law
+ the sanctions are imposed by those given state authority to do so.

Question 5

Characteristics of Law

Answer 5

1. Rules of Human Conduct
2. Just & Obligatory
   3.Promulgated by Competent Authority
3. It must be observed by all

Question 6

refers to the extent to which persons are obligated to obey it based on their ability to do so

Answer 6

Law’s Fairness

Question 7

comprises of the Senate and Congress (which consists of District Representatives and Party-List Representatives), is responsible for enacting laws that apply to the whole archipelago.

Answer 7

Legislative Branch

Question 8

Meaning any action, things, dictate of reason if regulated or gathered together could become a conglomeration of rules, regulations that can create an orderly, peaceful, harmonious relations among the people concerned so that in the end justice will prevail.

Answer 8

Rules of Human Conduct

Question 9

Treatment of Law should be equal, regardless of sex, creed, age and status in life and to follow the law there should be equivalent punishment or penalties to enforce them.

Answer 9

Just and Obligatory

Question 10

Commonly abused term on the relation of a criminally inclined poor person and a moneyed person on the treatment of the application of law.

Answer 10

Justice delayed is Justice denied

Question 11

Any duty binding parties to perform their agreement. (Black’s dict. P. 1074).

Answer 11

Obligatory

Question 12

Made known to those who are expected to follow it. In a Republican State like the Philippines, we have three branches of government

Answer 12

Promulgated by Competent Authority

Question 13

The law-making body; the executive body is the implementing body and the judiciary as the enforcing body.

Answer 13

Legislative Body

Question 14

The application of law should not be titled or favoring an individual but by the observance of all and the benefits that may be derived from it.

Answer 14

It must be observed by all

Question 15

The people’s wellbeing is the most important law.

Answer 15

Salus populi est suprema lex

Question 16

Kinds of Law According to Purpose

Answer 16

1. Substantive Law
2. Adjective Law

Question 17

Kinds of Law According to Scope

Answer 17

1. Private Law
2. Public Law

Question 18

kind of law which creates, defines, and regulates rights and duties that can give rise to a cause of action.

Answer 18

Substantive Law

Question 19

This provides the method of aiding and protecting certain rights. It is concerned with the means and instruments by which those ends can be achieved

Answer 19

Adjective Law

Question 20

This law applies to all of the state or to particular class of persons in the state, with equal force and obligation.
Examples: Political Law, Criminal Law, International Law.

Answer 20

Public Law

Question 21

This law relates to particular class of persons or things.
Examples: Mercantile/Commercial Law, Maritime Law, Civil Law

Answer 21

Private Law

Question 22

The basic and paramount law to which all other laws must conform and to which all persons, including the highest officials of the land, must defer.

Answer 22

Constitution

Question 23

Set of laws and concepts that describe how a nation should be governed, how power should be divided and regulated, and what people’ rights should be. It is generally written down and included in a single document.

Answer 23

Constitution

Question 24

Formal written enactment of a legislative authority that governs a city, state, or country. It typically commands or prohibits something or declare a policy.

Answer 24

Statutes

Question 25

If a law or contract violates any norm of the constitution, that law or contract, whether promulgated by the legislative or by the executive branch or entered into by private persons for private purposes, is null and void (not valid) and without any force and effect.

Answer 25

Supremacy of the Constitution

Question 26

Governs the relationship between the individual and the state. Its concern is not the relation between individuals, between a private individual and other individuals.

Answer 26

Bill of Rights

Question 27

The purpose of this is to protect the people against arbitrary and discriminatory use of political power.

Answer 27

Bill of Rights

Question 28

A law that hears before it condemns; which proceeds upon inquiry, and renders judgement only after trial.

Answer 28

Due Process of Law

Question 29

Due process is observed-

Answer 29

1. There must be notice; and
2. There must be hearing or the opportunity to be heard before judgement is rendered.

Question 30

Limitation on the powers of the government.

Answer 30

Bill of Rights