Law

Law

1. Definition: The Law is a system of rules that a society or government develops in order to deal with crime, business agreements, and social relationships. The principles and regulations established in a community by some authority and applicable to its people, whether in the form of legislation or custom and policies recognized and enforces by judicial decisions. Our definition: Set of rules based upon society's norms created by the legislative branch of government to follow justice among the citizens, Those are stated i the Constitution, and enforced by lawyers.

2. Private

   • Definition: Governs relationships between individuals such as contracts and the law of obligations. ·Affects the rights and obligations of individuals, families, businesses, and small groups. ·Exist to assist citizens indisposes that involve private matter
     • Civil Law
       • the system of law concerned with private relations between members of a community rather than criminal, military, or religious affairs.
     • Commercial and Maritime Law
       • Admiralty law, also called maritime law, is a combination of U.S. and international law that covers all contracts, torts, injuries or offenses that take place on navigable waters.
     • Private International Law
       • Public International Law is composed of the laws, rules, and principles of general application that deal with the conduct of nation states and international organisations among themselves as well as the relationships between nation states and international organisations with persons, whether natural or juridical.
     • Labor Law
       • a law relating to the rights and responsibilities of workers.
     • Law of Civil and Commercial Procedures
       • Civil procedure is the body of law that sets out the rules and standards that courts follow when adjudicating civil lawsuits (as opposed to procedures in criminal law matters).

3. Public

   • Definition: Governs the relationship betweenn individuals (such as citizens & companies) and the state. ·Deals with issues that affect the general public or state; society as a whole
     • Constitutional Law
       • constitutional law deals with some of the fundamental relationships within our society. This includes relationships among the states, the states and the federal government, the three branches (executive, legislative, judicial) of the federal government, and the rights of the individual in relation to both federal and state government.
     • Administrative Law
       • the body of law that regulates the operation and procedures of government agencies.
     • Tax Law
       • body of rules under which a public authority has a claim on taxpayers, requiring them to transfer to the authority part of their income or property.
     • Criminal Law
       • a system of law concerned with the punishment of those who commit crimes
     • Public International Law
       • composed of the laws, rules, and principles of general application that deal with the conduct of nation states and international organisations among themselves as well as the relationships between nation states and international organisations with persons, whether natural or juridical.