USA400H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Cranage, English Law, Welfare Rights
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Cultural: from personal responsibility to the idea of law. Divine law codes to roman law ten tables. From trives to royal courts to judicial courts. English common law: courts of law and courts of equity. 16:18 you shall appoint magistrates and officials in all the settlements that the lord your. God is giving you, and they shall govern with due justice. 24:14 you shall not abuse a needy and destitute laborer, whether a fellow countryman or a stranger. 25:15 you must have completely honest weights and measures. Formation of rules by case by case development. Torts: damages for negligence and failure to exhibit due care. Of private right; not clothed with a public interest. Applies to commerce in essential but less-than-competitive public necessities. Example of invisible hand is an individual making a decision to buy coffee and a bagel to make them better off, that person decision will make the economic society as a whole better off.
