Chapter 1: Law and Justice

The power to hear and decide cases

• jurisdiction

• laws

• court system

• justice system

Laws created by state and federal legislatures

• common law

• ethical law

• statutes

• civil law

A court in which an exact account of what went on in a trial is kept so as to allow appeals

• court record

• records of court

• recording of trial

• court of record

Laws that regulate the establishment, operation, and termination of commercial enterprises

• civil law

• business law

• criminal law

• common law

Rules of conduct that a political authority will enforce

• laws

• business laws

• government enforcement

• law of rules

A group of laws within the common law that deals with the wrongs against individual persons

• common law

• protected persons law

• criminal law

• civil law

Law based on the customs of the people

• customs law

• common law

• personal law

• civil law

A way of deciding what is right or wrong in a reasoned, impartial manner

• ethics

• ethical system

• values

• morales

A document that sets forth the framework of a government and its relationship to the people it governs

• constitution

• laws

• legislative documents

• constitutional documents

Law created by the judicial branch of government that state's new rules to used in deciding a case and subsequent cases like it

• judicial review

• statute law

• case review

• case law