Management and Organizational Studies 2275A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Roman Law, Microsoft Onenote, Heth

• School: Western University
• Department: Management and Organizational Studies
• Course: Management and Organizational Studies 2275A/B
• Professor: James Hildebrand

Document Summary

In ontario the substantive law --> common law jurisdiction. All private law is codi ed in a single statue. Therefore as far as private law is concerned there is no common law. Quebec can do this because of the separation of powers. Came from napoleonic code which came from roman law. Substantive law is what you get and procedural is how you get it. In ontario most of our civil law is based on common law and precedence. In quebec judges decisions don"t have to be consistent since they don"t use common law only the civil code. 1867 = when the british north america act (bna) law was passed in england. Sets up the way that canada will be managed (as a colony of the uk) Section 91: federal (list of all the areas in which the federal government has the power to make laws --> in relation to criminal law, shipping and navigation, sheries, trade and commerce, banking)