RSM225H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Frivolous Litigation, Enemy Alien, Admissible Evidence
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Subcategories of public law: constitutional law, criminal law, taxation. Subcategories of private law: contract law, tort law, property law. Laws are divided into two other basic categories: substantive law. The rights and duties that each person has in society. I. e. the right to vote, to enter into contracts, to perform contractual obligations etc: procedural law. Rules that deal with how substantive rights and duties may be enforced. The development, evolution, and relative importance of case law vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction depending on the legal system adopted by the jurisdiction. Two types of legal systems: civil law. The system of law involving comprehensive legislated code, derived from roman law that developed in continental europe and greatly influenced by the code napoleon of 1804. Requires that all law be consolidated into a consolidated body of legislation known as the civil code.