Law

Law is the set of rules a society adopts to regulate behavior and resolve disputes.

Each jurisdiction has its own laws; but laws are often quite similar, arising from similar values and similar social, economic and political conditions.

There are several distinct legal traditions; these differ less in the substantive content of the law than in their jargon and procedures.

The several different levels of government each produce their own laws (though the extent to which law is centralized varies); thus at any one place there can be laws in force established at the local, state, national or international levels.

Legal systems

European community law -- common law -- civil law -- socialist law -- international law -- Roman law -- Canon law

Law of particular countries

• United Kingdom: British Nationality Law, Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, House of Lords, Human Rights Act 1998

• United States: US Constitutional Law, United States Constitution, False Claims Law

• Australia: Australian Constitutional History

Legal subject areas

Criminal law -- Civil law -- Family law -- Procedural law -- Constitutional law -- Corporations law -- Property law -- Administrative law -- Human rights law -- Intellectual Property law -- Environmental law

legal aspects of transsexualism

Subjects Auxillary to Law

Practice of law -- philosophy of law -- jurisprudence -- comparative law -- legal history -- law and literature -- dispute resolution

Other

(To be arranged into the above categories)

• abandonment

• abatement

• abduction

• adversary system

• affidavit

• age of consent

• allocute

• alternative dispute resolution

• answer

• appeal

• appellate court

• at bar

• bar

• barratry

• black letter law

• blue law

• case law

• cause of action

• civil law

• class action

• common law

• constitution

• contract

• contempt of court

• copyright

• corroborating evidence

• Court of Appeals

• criminal law

• cross-examination

• damages

• defendant

• deponent

• depose

• deposition

• direct examination

• disbarment

• double jeopardy

• environmental agreements

• expert witnesss

• family law

• false claims law

• felony

• fifth amendment rights of witness

• frivolous lawsuit

• grand jury

• hostile witness

• immunity

• incest

• indictment

• inquest

• intellectual property

• judicial economy

• jurisdiction

• jurisprudence

• jury instructions

• jury trial

• justice

• laches

• lawyer

• leading question

• legal technicality

• Lettre de cachet

• litigant

• loss of consortium

• malpractice

• mens rea

• misdemeanor

• motion

• Napoleonic Code

• nationality

• negligence per se

• negligence

• non-disclosure agreement

• notary public

• patent

• personal property

• philosophy of law

• plaintiff

• plea bargain

• plea of nolo contendere

• plea of temporary insanity

• plea

• precedent

• prima facie

• product liability

• property

• proximate cause

• qui tam

• real property

• rebuttal

• redirect examination

• remedy

• res ipsa loquitur

• reversible error

• sanctions

• sodomy law

• standing

• statute of limitations

• statute

• statutory law

• strike from the record

• Supreme court

• tax law

• terrorism

• time constraints

• tort

• trade secret

• trademark

• trial de novo

• vexatious litigation

• with prejudice

• writ of certiorari

• writ of mandamus

• writ of habeas corpus

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see also Crime

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Not quite law: Law of nature -- Murphys law -- Finagles law -- Hanlons Razor -- Sturgeons law -- Parkinsons law -- Occam's razor

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What are our priorities for writing in this area? To help develop a list of the most basic topics in Law, please see Law basic topics.

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