LAWS1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Albus Dumbledore, Good Governance, Responsible Government
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Western legal tradition: where the common law and civil law split, laws lost in roman empire and then found, creating common law and civil law. Customary law the traditional law of indigenous peoples, generally oral, sometimes narrative or based on established performative practice, including song and dance, rather than in written codes or principles. First, a system of law developed by the english courts through the principles of precedent and adopted in commonwealth countries with a british heritage. The codified system of law that applies in european countries, by contrast with the common law countries (the. Snape is in slytherin so it is reasonable to think he killed him. Regulation of relation between individuals that are harmful to society. Example of a civil law case: donoghue v. stevenson (1932) Examples of a criminal case: state v. mallard (1995) Lays down the ways and means substantive law can. Establishes the rights and obligations of individuals. be enforced.