Legal Environment Word Scramble
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Term | Definition |
Binding Authority | Any source of law that a court must follow when deciding a case. |
Breach | The failure to perform a legal obligation. |
Case Law | The rules of law announced in court decisions. |
Citation | A reference to a publication in which a legal authority—such as a statute or a court decision—or other source can be found. |
Civil Law | The branch of law dealing with the definition and enforcement of all private or public rights, as opposed to criminal matters. |
Common Law | The body of law developed from custom or judicial decisions in English and U.S. courts. |
Constitutional Law | The body of law derived from the U.S. Constitution and the constitutions of the various states. |
Criminal Law | Law that has to do with wrongful actions committed against society for which society demands redress. |
CyberLaw | An informal term used to refer to all laws governing online communications and transactions. |
Defendant | One against whom a lawsuit is brought. |
Equitable Principles and Maxims | General propositions or principles of law that have to do with fairness (equity). |
Historical School | A school of legal thought that emphasizes the evolutionary process of law and looks to the past to discover what the principles of contemporary law should be. |
Injunction | A court decree ordering a person to do or refrain from doing a certain act. |
International Law | The law that governs relations among nations. |
Jurisprudence | The science or philosophy of law. |
Law | A body of enforceable rules governing relationships among individuals and between individuals and their society. |
Legal Positivism | A school of legal thought centered on the assumption that there is no law higher than the laws created by a national government. |
Legal Realism | A school of legal thought that generally advocates a less abstract and more realistic approach to the law, an approach that takes into account customary practices and the circumstances in which transactions take place. |
National Law | Law that pertains to a particular nation. |
Natural Law | The belief that government and the legal system should reflect universal moral and ethical principles that are inherent in human nature. |
Ordinance | A regulation enacted by a city or county legislative body that becomes part of that state’s statutory law. |
Persuasive Authority | Any legal authority or source of law that a court may look to for guidance but on which it need not rely in making its decision. |
Plaintiff | One who initiates a lawsuit. |
Precedent | A court decision that furnishes an example or authority for deciding subsequent cases involving identical or similar facts. |
Primary Source of Law | A document that establishes the law on a particular issue, such as a constitution, a statute, an administrative rule, or a court decision. |
Procedural Law | Law that establishes the methods of enforcing the rights -established by substantive law. |
Remedy | The relief given to an innocent party to enforce a right or compensate for the violation of a right. |
Secondary Source of Law | A publication that summarizes or interprets the law, such as a legal encyclopedia, a legal treatise, or an article in a law review. |
Stare Decisis | A common law doctrine under which judges are obligated to follow the precedents established in prior decisions. |
Statute of Limitations | A federal or state statute setting the maximum time period during which a certain action can be brought or certain rights enforced. |
Statutory Law | The body of law enacted by legislative bodies. |
Substantive Law | Law that defines, describes, regulates, and creates legal rights and obligations. |
Uniform Law | A model law created by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws and/or the American Law Institute for the states to consider adopting. |
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