Ch.1

Constitutional Law

Statutory Law

Administrative Law

Case Law and Common Law Doctrines

Common Law

Remedies

Courts of Law

Chancellor,
Courts of Equity
Remedies in Equity

Type of Remedies of Equity

Equitable Maxims

1. A Defense

2. A Defendant

3. Respondent

1. Plantiff

2. Petitioner

Statutes of Limitations

Legal Precedent

Reporters/reports

Stare Decisis

Binding authority

When there is no precedent

public policy

legal reasoning

4 Steps of Legal Reasoning

The plantiff alleges...

normally judges try to find "cases on point"

LEGAL REASONING TYPE 1:

Deductive Reasoning, sometimes called Syllogism

LEGAL REASONING TYPE 2:

Linear Reasoning

LEGAL REASONING TYPE 3:

Reasoning by Anology

jurisprudence

The natural law theory

Theory of legal positivism

THe historical school of leagal thought

Legal realism

Classifications of law:

1. Substantive law

2. Procedural law

Civil law

criminal law

cyber law

How to find sources of law? By citations- used to identify the publications/case

Two types of courts in the U.S.:

Federal and State

How to read a citation

Textbook Pg. 18-20

1. Appellant

2. Appellee

titles of Judge and justice are used as the same

decisions and opinions

types of opinions