Topics of this game:
- Enforceable rules of conduct
- Laws may be grouped into an organized form referred to as a
- Law based on the current standards or customs of the people is called
- prevent disputes and wrongs from occurring in the first place
- 4 components of good law
- The power to decide a case
- Fairness
- A document that sets forth the framework of a government and its relationship to the people it governs.
- Made after a trial has ended and one of the parties has appealed the result to a higher court
- The legislature enacted laws passed for certain states, cities, and people
- Pieces of legislation created by a town or city council or by a country board or commission are typically referred to as
- An earlier event or action that is regarded as an example or guide to be considered in subsequent similar circumstances.
- Stops something from being done
- Doctrine that requires that lower courts must follow established case law in deciding similar cases
- governmental bodies formed to carry out particular laws.
- Law that goes along with the constitution and applies to government action
- Law passed by governing legislature (civil law and criminal law) applies to individual and private action
- The group of laws that allows individuals to seek legal remedies for wrongs done to them
- Acting in the name of all people, the government investigates an alleged wrongdoing
- Sets forth how rights and responsibilities can be legally exercised and enforced through the legal system
- Defines rights and duties. Concerned with all rules of conduct except those involved in enforcement
- Rules that apply to business situations and transactions
- Widely adopted set of laws pertaining to business
- an act or omission that gives rise to injury or harm to another and amounts to a civil wrong for which courts impose liability
- A collection of standards of conduct and moral judgment forming the basis for a reasoned, impartial decision as to what is right or wrong
- An open, peaceful violation of a law to protest its alleged, or supposed, injustice
- Court concerned with or dealing with applications for decisions to be reversed
