Law 2101 Chapter Notes - Chapter LS 2-17: Traction Engine, Purposive Approach, Golden Rule
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Ls-2 to ls-8: sources and divisions of law, common sources in canada: Constitution: prov/terr can only make laws for their borders, federal parliament is concerned with canada as a whole and the territories, provicial gov make municipal and local governments, aboriginal government. Indian act and self-governed powers negotiated between the federal and provincial governments. Quebec i matters of private law while similar matters in quebec where to be handled under the civil law code: common law was still used in quebec. Structure of the courts: the supreme court of canada is the highest court, deals with appeals from provincial appeal court, the federal court and. Judicial committee of the privy council, other commonwealth supreme. Basic concepts in learning the law: statutory interpretation. Legislatio(cid:374) is (cid:374)eeded (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause it applies to e(cid:448)e(cid:396)yo(cid:374)e a(cid:374)d it(cid:859)s up to the (cid:272)ou(cid:396)ts to de(cid:272)ide if the facts of a case fit within the language of the statue. The process of stat construction has two distinct aspects:
