Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Canadian Law- Unit 1
- Law is a body of rules enacted in a community
Anmerkungen:
- Functions of a Law:
Basis on settling disbutes.
Rules of conduct/ reduce conflict
Protects rights and freedoms
- Codify: Write something down
- Habeaus corpus - court order for someone to be
brought to court
- Canadian Bill of Rights out lines freedoms
- Right - legal, moral, and social claim
Freedom- no gov. interference
- TORT LAW* - compensation for injury/damage
- Rule of Law* - No one right can infringe on anothers
- Substantive law- law changes/ regulates rights and obligations
- Brings order to society
- Retribution "an eye for an
eye" Restitution - Payment
- Trial by ordeal - determine guilt from
witness testimony. Trial by combat - fight
Divine Right- Gods representative
- Public Law - dealing with individual vs. state
- Common Law: judges choice from similar rcase
- Human right prevents discrimination
- Prima Facie - unable to establish fact or case unless disproved by evidence