What is Law?

Question 0

Civil Law

Answer 0

deals with disputes between individuals or organizations in which the victim seeks compensation for injuries or damages

Question 1

What is law?

Answer 1

governs human activities and enforces rules and regulations

Question 2

Law refers to:

Answer 2

• governing of human activities
• documents behind the law
• subspecialty of a type of law practice
• structure behind the process

Question 3

In Civil Law you are found to be either ____ or ____ _____ by a judge

Answer 3

liable or not liable

Question 4

Private Law

Answer 4

the law governing conflict between persons

Question 5

Public Law

Answer 5

the law governing conflict between individuals and the state

Question 6

Criminal Law

Answer 6

deals with crime and legal punishment in regards to criminal offences interfering with the safety and security of society

Question 7

Natural Law Theory

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philosophical system of law deriving from the concept that natural justice is based on morality

Question 8

lex inuista non est lex

Answer 8

an unjust law is not a law

Question 9

Legal Positivism

Answer 9

theory that law can be scientifically determined through precedent rather than the application of morality

Question 10

nulla poena sine lege

Answer 10

no punishment without valid law authorizing it

Question 11

Judicial Realism

Answer 11

theory that background and social/economic status of the judge impacts how the law is interpreted