Types and Sources of law

Highest court in the state or country.

• Supreme Court

• U.S District Court

• Local Court

• Appeals Court

Designed to prevent people from deliberately hurting each other or each other's property.

• court of appeals

• criminal

• civil

• state

Codes established during Babylonian times whose principles were punishments that equaled the crimes. Example: eye for an eye

• Hammurabi's Code

• Twelve Tables of Rome

• Ten Commandments

• Code of Justinian

Who is this?

• Lady Jane

• Lady Justice

• Lady Liberty

• Hammurabi's wife

What is it called when "no one is above the law"?

• justice

• rule of law

• precedent

• commandments

What is the Roman Code of law written by 10 men written on ivory tablets; hung in the town plaza so everyone could see them?

• Code of Justinian

• Hammurabi's Code

• Twelve Tables

• Ten Commandments

What kind of law deals with military?

• criminal law

• constitutional law

• military law

• juvenile law

Which kind of law allows a person to sue (for compensation) when disputes between individuals occur?

• criminal law

• military law

• constitutional law

• civil law

what are the three levels of government?

• federal, state and local

• federal, state, subdivision

• federal, national, state, municipal

• federal, community, supreme

One of earlies known legal systems and known for its famous "eye for an eye"?

• Civil law

• Code of Hammurabi

• English Common Law

• Military law