SOSC 2351 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Religious Law, Property Law, Legal Realism
2 Oct 2017
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Week 3: law, categories and systems of law. Law is one of the defining characteristics of a given society. Set of enforceable rules and principles that govern relationships between individuals as well as between individuals and society. They are to some extent connected to one another but there are significant differences between law and morality. Authoritatively decided by judges/ moral controversy goes no. Facilitates the adoption of certain devices that are need by modern society. Examples: contract law, property law, tort law, family law. Common law; civil law; religious law; customary law. However, we are discussing only the following systems which are the dominant legal systems. A-common law; judge-made laws (cumulation of over centuries of judicial rulings in britain and canada) Written rules in a legislative document called code. They can be compared along the following dimensions: Natural law: higher and hidden laws in the nature that can be discovered through human reasons.
