LAW 723 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Common Law, Trademark Symbol, Substantive Law

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Law and Business
• Course: LAW 723
• Professor: Stan Benda

Document Summary

Substantive law defines rights and duties, such as crimes and punishments in the criminal law and civil rights and responsibilities in civil law. It is codified in legislated statutes, can be enacted through the initiative process, and in common law systems it may be created or modified through precedent. Admitted testimony, documentation with a role in a trial, proves outcome, evidentiary facts, law of evidence: evidentiary. Determines what happens in civil lawsuit, criminal or: administrative administrative proceedings. body of law that governs the activities of administrative agencies of government. Government agency action can include rulemaking, adjudication, or the enforcement of a specific regulatory agenda. Administrative law is considered a branch of public law. North american domestic law has one of 2 roots: civil code top down, or rules in advance of the game, common law fact situations, bottom up, rules made during the game. Tort preservation of moral balance: contract preservation of promise.