BUS LAW Exam One Practice Terms

A collection of rules to prescribe or control human behavior

• law

• procedural law

• administrative law

• constitutional law

Rules about how legal cases take steps, function, and go to courts

• procedural law

• statutory law

• substantive law

• common law

Actual rights and duties (contracts, crimes, torts)

• substantive law

• procedural law

• public law

• criminal law

Judge- made law developed through precedent

• common law

• constitutional law

• statutory law

• civil law

law of the highest authority, which establishes the government's structure and defines its powers

• constitutional law

• common law

• public law

• administrative law

laws passed by legislatures

• statutory law

• administrative law

• public law

• substantive law

rules and regulations by government agencies

• administrative law

• constitutional law

• private law

• public law

Governs between nations and businesses overseas

• international law

• civil law

• criminal law

• private law

governs relationships between government and individuals

• public law

• private law

• civil law

• criminal law

governs relationships between private parties

• private law

• criminal law

• civil law

• international law