| A | B |
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| administrative agency | Government formed bodies created to carry out particular laws |
| case law | Law made when an appellate court endorses a rule to be used in deciding court cases |
| civil disobedience | An open, peaceful, violation of a law to protest its alleged injustice |
| civil law | Group of laws that make up for wrongs against individual persons |
| code | Laws grouped into an organized form |
| common law | Law based on the customs of a group of people |
| constitution | Document that sets forth the framework of a government and its relationship to the people it governs |
| criminal law | Group of laws defining and setting punishemnts for offenses against society |
| equity | Fairness |
| ethics | The practice of deciding what is right or wrong in a reasoned, impartial manner |
| jusridiction | Power of a court to decide a case |
| laws | Enforceable rules of conduct in a society |
| ordinance | Legislative enactment by a city |
| positive law | Law dictated from above |
| procedural law | Groups of laws defining the methods for enforcing legal rights and duties |
| stare decisis | Doctrine requiring lower courts to adhere to exsisting case law in making decsions |
| statute | Law enacted by state legislatures or federal legislatures |
| substantive law | Law that defines rights and duties |
| four | Most societies go through how many stages in forming a legal system? |
| English Common Law and Roman Civil Law | What are the world's two great systems of law? |
| Feudal Barrons | They acted as judges in their own territories before English common law was developed. |
| Equity | What type of court did the king develop under a chancellor's control that could issue and order to compel specific actions or an injunction |
| Local, Federal, and State | Name the three levels of government that create laws in the United States |
| Constitutions, Statutes, Case Law, Administrative Regulations | The four forms of law are. |
| UCC | This was created due to interstate commerce to bring uniformity to transactions |
| Consequence and Rule Based | What are the two basic forms of ethical reasoning? |
| Consequence Based | U.S. system of demorcracy lends itself to this type of reasoning |
| Rule Based | U.S. system of courts lends itself to this type of reasoning |
