RSM225H1 Chapter 1: CHAPTER ONE.docx
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It influences and controls the behaviour of individuals in society. To protect person, property, and society as a whole. It empowers, influences, and controls the actions of government. It influences and controls interaction between individuals. Rule of law: established principles that treat all persons equally and that government itself obeys. Public law: law that regulates the conduct of government and the relations between government and private persons. Private law: law that regulates the relations between private persons and groups of private persons. Legal liability: responsibility for the consequences of breaking the law. Criminal liability: responsibility arising from commission of an offence against the government or society as a whole ex. murder. Regulatory or quasi-criminal liability: breaches of less serious rules of public law often enforced through specialized regulatory tribunals set up by the government for specific purposes ex. driving. Civil liability: breach of private law enforced through a law suit initiated by the victim ex. paying rent.
