LEGL 2700- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 42 pages long!)
28 Mar 2018
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Chapter 1 | law as a foundation for business pg. Judges play a vital role in maintaining the rule of law: almost all wealthy countries embrace the rule of law, property: aka ownership, the right to turn to public authorities (ex. Police/courts) to help you keep others from interfering with what you own: 3 types of ownership fences, public property: public resources owned by gov. (ex. Roads, public buildings, public lands, monuments: private property: resources you own as an individual, common property: resources like land that more than one individual owns jointly, central concept of western legal systems. Personal injuries: criminal cases: prove the wrong committed against society and seeking to have the wrongdoer punished by the court system. Substantive law and procedural law: substantive law: the legal relationship of people with other people or b/w them and the state, procedural law: method and means by which substantive law is made and administered.
