Laws grouped into an organized form

Law based on the current standards or customs of the people?

Law based on the dictations of a central political authority

The power of a court to decide a case

The term for basic fairness in legal contexts

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

Laws enacted by state or federal legislatures

An open, peaceful, violation of a law to protest its alleged or supposed

injustice.

Legislation enacted by a town, city or county board or commission

Determines what remedies are available in a lawsuit and how those remedies are to be secured.

Law made when an appellate court endorses a rule to be used in deciding court

cases

The group of laws used to provide remedy for wrongs against individuals.

The group of laws that defines and sets punishments for offenses against society.

 Rightness or wrongness is based only on the results of the action. An act that produces good consequences is good. An act that produces bad consequences is bad.

 Acts are either right or wrong. Good consequences do not justify wrong or bad acts.

The legal doctrine that requires lower courts to follow established case law in

deciding similar cases (“to adhere to decided cases”).