ENGR 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Patent Office, Due Diligence, Copyright Symbol
11 Apr 2016
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Laws, as we have described earlier, is a rule that regulates what is accepted or forbidden in a society. Laws are created by a competent authority, such as a parliament or a legislative assembly. Laws are enforced through a system composed of enforcement agencies (example: the police) and the judiciary. The body of law that governs a society can be subdivided, according to its focus, in two two broad domains public law and private law. Public laws are those laws that govern the action of the state (or government) or the relations of the state and individuals. Examples of public law are international law, constitutional law, administrative law, or criminal law. Private law, on the other hand, is solely concerned with regulations the relations and disputes between private individuals. Legal systems are related to laws, but as the name implies, it is the system that has built up around the process of implementing laws in a society.
