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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 centralised 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, Controlled Substances Act, Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act
- 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 -- Labor 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(aka, alternative dispute resolution)
Other (To be arranged into the above categories)
- abandonment
- abatement
- abduction
- adversary system
- affidavit
- age of consent
- allocute
- 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
see also Crime
Not quite law: Law of nature -- Murphys law -- Finagles law -- Hanlons Razor -- Sturgeons law -- Parkinsons law -- Occam's razor
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.