LAW 122 Lecture Notes - Arbitration Clause, Battery (Tort), Specific Performance
17 Feb 2013
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Chapter1 risk management & sources of law. Laws are rules and guidelines, but not all rules and guidelines are laws. Law is a rule that can be enforced by the courts. Just because you have broke a moral obligations, doesn"t mean you broke any legal obligations. Civil law: (rome) more refer to as private law than public law, more have to do with contacts and torts. Common law: (england) judges who sat in the courts of law as opposed to courts of equity. Under the canadian law, there are 2 different types: public laws: how governments and the ways in which they deal with their citizens. Constitutional law: basic roles of political and legal systems; establish rights and freedoms. Administrative law: concerned with the creation and operation of: agencies, boards, commissions, tribunal. Criminal law: deals with offences against the state: people who broke the law (can also white collar crimes)
