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Exam One Study Cards Flashcards

1
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Elements of the legal system

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structure, substance, culture

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Private Law

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  • Citizens vs Citizens
  • State has limited interest
  • Torts, contracts, family law
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Public Law

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  • Violations of the state
  • State has primary interest
  • criminal law, administrative law
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Contact Phase

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  • Liability and Jurisdiction?
  • Colonial courts dominate
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Post Contact I (1754-1783)

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  • tribes ally with european powers against the british
  • post war treaties deprive them of land and force them interior
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Post Contact II (1783-1860)

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  • exclusive federal power to negotiate with tribes
  • supreme court question of the indian title
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Post Contact III (1860-1940)

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  • forced federal removals
  • introduced to reservations to establish native american autonomy
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Property Ownership in England

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  • feudal system
  • limited land
  • rigid social class structure
  • impossible for lower social classes to own property
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Evolution of Property Ownership

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  • Breakdown of european feudal system
  • abundance of land
  • paucity of colonists (most from low class)
  • Potential for conflict
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Recording system to establish ownership

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  • surveying to fix boundaries
  • first to record a deed w boundaries was treated as the land owner
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11
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Antebellum ?

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america changed by the early 1800s and no longer european competitors in north america

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antebellum land ownership

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  • all lane ownership happens w the consent of the government
  • government tries not to interfere w most
  • if government takes land they must give a fair compensation
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property rights during reconstruction

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  • dramatic shift in workforce with abolition of slavery
  • industrial rev.
  • lasseiz faire economics
  • judicial resistance and legislative attempts to regulate property
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Pre war land reform

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  • lasseiz faire economics lead to massive depression
  • big attempt by state to regulate economic issues
  • courts more tolerant of legislative regulation of commerce and land
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contemporary property rights

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  • courts turns conservative from 1970s onward
  • shift back towards unregulated capitalism
  • attitude toward property rights stays consistent
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receiving and carrying
Receiving

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The laws received by American colonies from the english crown

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receiving and carrying
carrying

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Those laws instituted by colonial legislatures in response to unique issues, faced by the colonies

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New England colonies

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  • exploitation of abundance of natural resources (fur timber fish)
  • marketplace for Southern and Caribbean agriculture
  • small independent communities
  • Predominantly English
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Middle colonies

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  • Open fields allow for production of the slaughter animals
  • Richer ethnic mix
20
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Southern colonies

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  • fertile soil, long, growing seasons, and an abundance of rivers encourage agricultural production (tobacco, rice, indigo)
  • most populous colonies, but also the widest disributed
21
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Similarities between colonies

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  • development of religious natural law ideas often drawing on consent of the governed (will eventually manifest in the language of the declaration of independence and constitution)
  • movement away from the English common law in towards written codes
22
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Superior courts

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handle civil matters and work courts of original criminal jurisdiction , differ dramatically from English courts

23
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what are the two factors that begin to unify courts?

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Increasing in diverse population, Stewart restoration

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Justice of the peace

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appointed laypersons, and the lowest level of the judicial system

25
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Appellate English process

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Privy council committee provided for appeals from the colonies to the English crown, you can imagine how often this was used

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Vice Admirality courts

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instituted by the crown, judges often Americans exercise tight control over colonial shipping

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chancery Courts

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had a qausi political purpose, colonist viewed them with suspicion, eventually adopted equitable remedies

28
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how many lawyers came over with the initial settlers?

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one

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Slaves

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Little to no legal rights, serve at pleasure of a master

30
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Peasants and serfs

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technical land owners, but live life and debt to the Lord

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Wandering poor

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unskilled, migrant workers and widows

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allotment

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piece of land deeded by the government to a north american indian as part of the division of tribally held land

33
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writ of assistance

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an order directing that a party convey, deliver, or turn over a deed, document, or right of ownership

34
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dower

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the rights is a deceased husband that property goes to his widow wife

35
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leaders of the american revolution

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merchants, landowners, lawyers, the law as an abstract construct

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Judiciary act of 1789

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an attempt to reconcile competing positions, based on two competing, but ultimately capable policy decisions (creation of a federal court shot. Sure, the new court structures understood in the context of states)

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Distributive justice winners

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northerners, industry, entrepreneurs, merchant/manufactures

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distributive justice losers

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southerners, agriculture, laborers, indigenous groups, speculators

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Eminent domain

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The right of a government, or it’s agent to expropriate private property for public use with payment of compensation

40
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Laissez-faire

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Abstention by governments from interfering in the workings of the free market

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civil law

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Regards as the type of law, is a branch of law that regulates the non-criminal rights duties of a person, (parentheses natural persons and legal persons)

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common law

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A body of unwritten laws based on legal precedents established by the courts

43
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Crown party

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  • sees colonies as a way of wealth
  • wants to empower parliament to modernize economically
44
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whig party

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  • wants britain to return to agrarian focus
  • wants to restrain parliament the same way the monarchy was restrained

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