Law 12 vocab Chapter 1&2

Question 1

What is Assizes?

Answer 1

A court which formerly sat at intervals in each county of England and Wales to administer the civil and criminal law.

Question 2

What is Case Law and Common Law?

Answer 2

Law developed by previous court decisions

Question 3

What are Circuit Judges?

Answer 3

Senior judges in England and Whales who sit in Crown court

Question 4

What is the Code of Hammurabi?

Answer 4

A Babylonian law code that was written in 1772 BC

Question 5

What is the Code of Li K’vei?

Answer 5

A Chinese law code written in 399 BC

Question 6

What does Codified mean?

Answer 6

Arranging or Organizing a series of Laws

Question 7

What is a Divine right?

Answer 7

a right that a King is granted his power directly from God

Question 8

What are the Great Laws of Manu?

Answer 8

Laws of Karma, anyone attempting to enforce Manu’s laws through cruelty we’ll be dealt with by nature.

Question 9

What is the Habeas Corpus?

Answer 9

A person under arrest is to be brought before a judge or into court within a reasonable time period after an arrest. This is to prove grounds for the arrest.

Question 10

What is the Justinian Code?

Answer 10

Justinian decided to organize all of the current roman laws into a single code

Question 11

What is the Magna Carta?

Answer 11

the royal charter of political rights given to rebellious English barons by King John in 1215

Question 12

What is the difference between Mosaic Law and the 10 Commandments?

Answer 12

10 commandments: made by god

Mosaic Law: Made by Jews

Question 13

What is the Napoleonic Code?

Answer 13

French civil code established under Napoléon I in 1804. The code forbade privileges based on birth, allowed freedom of religion, and specified that government jobs should go to the most qualified.

Question 14

What is the Quebec Civil Code?

Answer 14

Quebec’s equivalent of the Canadian charter of rights and freedoms

Question 15

What is Restitution?

Answer 15

the restoration of something lost or stolen to its proper owner.

Question 16

What is Retribution?

Answer 16

punishment inflicted on someone as vengeance for a wrong or criminal act.

Question 17

What is the Rule of Law?

Answer 17

the restriction of the arbitrary exercise of power by subordinating it to well-defined and established laws.

Question 18

What is the Rule of precedent?

Answer 18

Law. a legal decision or form of proceeding serving as an authoritative rule or pattern in future similar or analogous cases.

Question 19

What is stare decisis?

Answer 19

the legal principle of determining points in litigation according to precedent.

Question 20

What is the Great Binding Law?

Answer 20

The oral constitution whereby the Iroquois Confederacy was bound together.

Question 21

What is trial by combat?

Answer 21

Trial by combat was a method of Germanic law to settle accusations in the absence of witnesses or a confession in which two parties in dispute fought in single combat; the winner of the fight was proclaimed to be right.

Question 22

What is trial by oath helping?

Answer 22

Trial by oath is swearing

Question 23

What is trial by ordeal?

Answer 23

In explaining this I state how a person needs to receive affirmation from character witnesses by an Oath. It is necessary to explain how fearful these people were of God’s wrath, especially if they lied under oath. Lieing under oath is a criminal offence.

Question 24

What is Administrative Law?

Answer 24

the body of rules and regulations and orders and decisions created by administrative agencies of government

Question 25

What are bylaws?

Answer 25

laws that are set by a local municipality

Question 26

What is Civil Law/ Private Law?

Answer 26

Laws that are set to govern person vs person interactions

Question 27

What is Constitutional law?

Answer 27

Constitutional law is the body of law which defines the relationship of different entities within a state, namely, the executive, the legislature

Question 28

What is contract law?

Answer 28

that branch of jurisprudence that studies the rights and obligations of parties entering into contracts

Question 29

What is criminal law?

Answer 29

Law that governs interactions between the government and a person

Question 30

What is distinguishing a Case?

Answer 30

to contrast the facts of the case before the court from the facts of a case of precedent where there is an apparent similarity

Question 31

What is domestic Law?

Answer 31

Municipal law is the national, domestic, or internal law of a sovereign state defined in opposition to international law.

Question 32

What is International Law?

Answer 32

Law that governs interactions between countries.

Question 33

What is Jurisdiction?

Answer 33

an area where a law is valid.

Question 34

What is Procedural law?

Answer 34

Procedural law or adjective law comprises the rules by which a court hears and determines what happens in civil lawsuit, criminal or administrative proceedings.

Question 35

What is property law?

Answer 35

Property law is the area of law that governs the various forms of ownership and tenancy in real property and in personal property.

Question 36

What is public law?

Answer 36

the law of relations between individuals and the state. ie. criminal law

Question 37

What is statute law?

Answer 37

the body of principles and rules of law laid down in statutes.

Question 38

What is Substantive law?

Answer 38

Substantive law is the statutory or written law that defines rights and duties, such as crimes and punishments, civil rights and responsibilities in civil law.

Question 39

What is tort law?

Answer 39

A tort, in common law jurisdictions, is a civil wrong which unfairly causes someone else to suffer loss or harm resulting in legal liability for the person who commits the tortious act.

Question 40

What is the Adversarial System?

Answer 40

legal system where to advocates represent there parties.