Law Chapter 1

Law typically formed from rules of judges

Law dictated from above (Highest Power)

Only U.S. state to not use common law

• Texas

• Alaska

• Hawaii

• Louisiana

Enforceable rules of conduct in a society

Private wrongs committed against

individuals or organizations

• Stare Decisis

• Crime

• Tort

• Injunction

Laws grouped into an organized form

• code

• statute

• group law

• ethics

Standards for moral judgement; helps decide what is right and wrong

• equity

• ethics

• manners

• consciences

Power of a court to decide a case

• code

• civil law

• jurisdiction

• ordinance

Fairness

• ethics

• equity

• ordinance

• statute

Document that sets the framework of a government and the people it governs

• constitution

• contract

• procedural law

• code