What Types Of Law Are There/where do they come from Flashcards
What is Contract Law
It is about the agreements between individuals
What is Criminal Law
Criminal Law is about the right of the state to punish individuals
What is Equity
Equity is based in duties owed to other individuals on the basis of a legal concept of conscience
What is Private Law
Duties owed to or by individuals are generally matters of a Private Law
What is Public Law
Duties owed to or by the state are matters of Public Law
What is Tort law
A body of rights, obligations, and remedies that is applied by courts in civil proceedings to provide relief for persons who have suffered harm from the wrongful acts of others
What is Civil Law
Is concerned with cases between individual people where one person commits an offence which is harmful towards another person, their rights or property.
What is Land Law
It overlaps with Contract Law and the duties are owed by individuals to each other.
What is Company Law
It’s about the duties and rights of companies, their owners and their offences
What does EU Law cover
Covers relations between individuals and/or the state
Who creates Common Law?
The Courts
What does the term Legislature mean
Is a technical term to describe a body that creates legislation, eg Parliament
What Is delegated legislation
Passed by the government departments and Local Authorities, with the permission of Parliament
A Statute is
Law made by Parliament. Status is another word for legislation or Acts of Parliament
A Precedent is
The Common Law developed a doctrine called Precedent, which meant that later courts had to follow the decisions of earlier courts
