FRSC 1100H Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Enumerated Powers, Legal Citation, Ultra Vires

• School: Trent University
• Department: Forensic Science
• Course: FRSC 1100H
• Professor: Smith Rhonda

Document Summary

We create laws two ways: through legislation (aka. Statutes = written law by governments) and common law (law through judges/courts) Law is a rule that a particular country or society creates and recognizes as regulating the actions of its members and enforced by governments. Commons, which goes to the senate where the process is repeated then eventually signed by the governor general to become a full law: at the provincial level, there is no senate to conduct a review, but the. Individual statutes created by the federal or provincial levels of government are also known as acts or codes. Paramount legislation is the framework upon which the rest of the legal structure is built: directs how power should be shared between governments, division of power is how law-making power is shared between governments. Section 91 of the constitution act, 1867 contains the primary list of federal law-making powers.