LEB 323 Lecture 11: Test 1 Review
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Primary sources of law: contain legally binding rules and procedures (federal and state constitutions, statutes, admin agency regulations, court decisions) Secondary sources: summarize and explain law, sometimes criticize and suggest changes in it (research articles in academic legal periodicals) Case law, unwritten law, judge-made law: statutory law rules that have been formally adopted by legislative bodies rather than by the courts. State and federal constitutions, municipal ordinances, even treaties; written law. Corporation law, criminal law, and tax law primarily statutory. Civil law - all those laws that spell out rights and duties existing among individuals, business firms, and sometimes even government agencies: plaintiffs vs. Defendants: remedy: money (for damages) or injunction (court degree ordering the defendant to do or not to do some particular thing) Wrongful acts can be of dual nature criminal and civil. Public law: are of law that is directly concerned with government-individual relationship: criminal law, constitutional law, administrative law.