HRT 240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Toft Village, Sexual Intercourse, Punitive Damages

• School: Cal Poly Pomona
• Department: Hospitality Management
• Course: HRT 240
• Professor: Edward Perez

Document Summary

Law a body of rules to which people must conform their conduct, a form of social control, a set of rules used by judges in deciding disputes. Congress statutory law delegated powers legislative process interstate commerce. 4 main sources of law: the constitution, statues, common law, and administrative law. Constitutional law the law embodied in the federal constitution, prescribing the organization and powers of the federal government, and defining rights of the people those powers expressly allocated to the federal government in the. 2nd source of law in the u. s. promulgated by the legislature and generally agreed to by the executive (president, governor, or mayor) lawmakers elected to office by the citizenry when a law is adopted by federal or state legislators. Damages money money awarded to the plaintiff to compensate for injuries(general damages ) Exemplary damages, money awarded in excess of compensatory damages facts those circumstances that gave rise to the lawsuit.