Search Results for " law "
1) A body of laws and legal concepts which come
down from old Roman laws established by Emperor Justinian, and which differ from
English common law, which is the framework of most state legal systems. In the
United States only Louisiana (relying on the French Napoleonic Code) has a legal
structure based on civil law. 2) Generic term for non-criminal law.
Reported decisions of appeals courts and other courts which make new
interpretations of the law and, therefore, can be cited as precedents. These
interpretations are distinguished from "statutory law," which is the statutes
and codes (laws) enacted by legislative bodies.
judge-declared law; law which exists and applies to a group on the basis of
customs and legal precedents developed over hundreds of years in Britain
A term used by the law to describe that part of
the law which regulates wills, probate and other subjects related to the
distribution of a deceased person's estate
Law proper, as opposed to moral laws, or to natural or "God-made" law.
A specialized branch of law which resolves cases
which have an element of conflicting foreign law.
Law which regulates the relationships between individuals. Family, commercial,
and labor law are examples of private law because the focus is on the
relationships between corporations and relationships
between individuals.
in America, this refers to the jurisdiction of each state and the laws that
govern their respective citizens in conjunction with national law as determined
by independent state legislatures
the official title of a lawyer in many countries
that body of law which regulates the formation and enforcement of contracts
