LAW 122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Ultra Vires
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Various factors affect success and failure in business. Positive: eg binding contractual party to promise. A set of principles and rules that courts will enforce. A way of thinking or reasoning about these principles and rules. Its not just a result of the case that matters, its how the result happened, and how they got to the conclusion. Law is bound up in the reasoning. Answer: moral and legal obligations are not one in the same. Although he could have saved the man, and morally he should have, he is not legally obliged to. Focus on why something is ethically right or wrong, not just whether it is right or wrong. E. g. , france and most of europe, louisiana, and quebec. E. g. , england, australia, new zealand, most of canada. Some laws are the same across canada. Our life in the public square: governs our relationship with the government and society as a whole.