MCS 3040 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Private Law, Rescission, Political Philosophy

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

Document Summary

Mcs*3040*de chapter 2 : the canadian legal system. The: creates statute law (formal, written laws) or legislation prohibiting a variety of offences like assault, theft, and fraud the senate. This type of control is called exclusive jurisdiction: concurrent jurisdiction means jurisdiction is shared between levels of government, i. e. public health, the environment. In this type of jurisdiction, paramountcy applies (doctrine that provides that federal laws prevail when there are conflicting or inconsistent federal and provincial laws). Limited doctrine in that it only applies if there is an express contradiction between two laws: business is affected by all levels of government, but mostly by provincial and municipal. Judiciary is independent from the legislative and executive branches of government: composed of judges appointed by federal and provincial governments to adjudicate on a variety of matters, the system of courts, (2) types of trial courts.