Study Set Content:
In exceptional circumstances, defense can apply to specific acts, such as killing in () or pleading()
self-defense, insanity.
Used to monitor and review the decisions of government agencies.
Administrative Law
Branch of law that regulates everything from buying to trading on derivatives markets.
Contract Law
Focuses on the legality and correctness of a contract.
Contract Law
¨ 3 key elements to the creation of a contract are necessary:
1) Offer and acceptance 2) Consideration 3) Intention to create legal relations
Branch of law that regulates the transfer and title of personal property and real property.
Property Law
¨ Branch of law that applies to assets held for investment and financial security (finances and bank dealings)
Trust Law
Branch of law that allows claims for compensation if a person’s property is harmed. ¨ Sometimes called, delicits, are civil wrongs. To have acted tortiously, one must have breached a duty to another person, or infringed some pre-existing legal right.
Tort Law
Simple example might be accidentally hitting someone with a ball.
Tort Law
Branch of law that governs (foreign) affairs between sovereign states in activities ranging from trade to military action
International Law
Branch of law that concerns relationships between sovereign nations.
Public International Law
The sources for public international law development are custom, practice, and treaties between sovereign nations.
Public International Law
Branch of law that concerns both the relationships between the executive, legislature, and judiciary and the human rights or civil liberties of individuals against the state.
Constitutional Law
The study of a tripartite industrial relationship between worker, employer, and trade union.
Labor Law
is simply those laws which constitute the body politic, from statute, case, law, and convention.
constitution
Provides a framework for the creation of law, the protection of human rights and the election of political representatives
Constitutional Law
This involves collective bargaining regulation and the right to strike. ¨ Individual employment law refers to workplace rights, such as job security, health and safety, or a minimum wage.
Labor Law
Sources of Law
Constitution, Legislation, Administrative Law, Common Law
Under Legislation
Pharmacy Law
Laws can be made by legislatures through legislation
Statutes
