LAW 724 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: World Trade Organization, United Nations General Assembly, Free-Trade Area
26 Oct 2016
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Laws are rules, but not all rules are laws. William blackstone defined the law as a civil conduct, prescribed by the supreme power in a state, commanding what is right and prohibiting what is wrong. Law is a rule that can be enforced by the courts. Law is a body of enacted or customary rules recognized by a community as binding. Sources of our domestic law are: the common law inherited from england, legislation passed by either provincial or federal government, constitutional law found in our constitutions of 1867 and 1982. Domestic law subdivided into public law and private law. Public law involves government directly including constitutional law, criminal law, admin law. Private law involve private legal person, includes law of contracts, torts, and property. There is no one global law-making or law-enforcing body with authority to act on behalf of the global community. There is no clear sovereign authorit(cid:455) to e(cid:374)for(cid:272)e (cid:862)i(cid:374)ter(cid:374)atio(cid:374)al la(cid:449)(cid:863).
