MCS 3040 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Canada Marine Act, Vancouver Fraser Port Authority, Contributory Negligence

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Marketing and Consumer Studies
• Course: MCS 3040
• Professor: l

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Consists of rules with penalties that are likely to be enforced either by courts or by other agents of government. Substantive law, body of law concerned with rights and obligations, as opposed to procedural law, which concerns how to enforce and defend such rights and obligations. The canadian provinces and territories except for quebec adopted a system of law derived from. The judge looks at prior case law and choose the particular case that moat closely resembles the one at hand. The principle that everyone is subject to the law and legal process. Part of the constitutional tradition inherited by canada from england. Canada would have a constitution similar in principle of that of the united kingdom. The business person may face both federal and provincial statutes that apply and it is not possible to obey both. When this happens and there is a true conflict, the federal legislation takes precedence over the provincial.