[COB 218] - Midterm Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (20 pages long)
5 Oct 2016
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Law: enforceable rules governing relationships among individuals & between individuals and their society. Establish rights, duties, & privileges that are consistent with the values & beliefs of a society or its ruling group. Primary sources of law: sources that establish the law. The us constitution & the constitutions of the various states. Statutes, or laws, passed by congress & by state legislatures. Regulations created by administrative agencies, such as the federal food & drug administration. Secondary sources of law: books & articles that summarize and clarify the primary sources of law. Compilations (restatements of the law summarize court decisions in a particular topic) Official comments to statutes, treaties, articles in law reviews by law schools, articles in other legal journals. Constitutional law: the body of law derived from the us constitution & the states constitutions. Us constitution is the supreme law of the land.
