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Revision as of 08:39, 21 August 2002 by Netesq (talk | contribs) (removed duplicate links from other list)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Law concerns the set of rules a society adopts to regulate behavior, to order life in its territory and to 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, regional, state, national or international levels.
Legal systems
Common law -- civil law -- Roman law -- international law -- European community law -- socialist law -- Canon law
Legal subject areas
Constitutional law -- Criminal law -- Civil law -- Administrative law -- Law of Evidence _ Procedural law -- Private law -- Family law -- Labor law -- Corporations law -- Property law -- Human rights law -- Intellectual Property law -- Environmental law -- Land use -- consuetudinary 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
Subjects Auxillary to Law
Jurisprudence -- Practice of law -- philosophy of law -- comparative law -- legal history -- law and literature -- dispute resolution (aka, alternative dispute resolution)
Other (To be arranged into the above categories)
- abandonment
- abatement
- abduction
- acquittal
- adversary system
- affidavit
- age of consent
- allocute
- animus nocendi
- answer
- appeal
- appellate court
- at bar
- bar
- barratry
- black letter law
- blue law
- brocard
- case law
- cause of action
- class action
- constitution
- contract
- contempt of court
- copyright
- Corpus Juris Civilis
- corroborating evidence
- Court of Appeals
- cross-examination
- damages
- defendant
- deponent
- depose
- deposition
- direct examination
- disbarment
- double jeopardy
- environmental agreements
- expert witness
- false claims law
- felony
- fifth amendment rights of witness
- fraud
- frivolous lawsuit
- good faith (bona fide)
- grand jury
- guilt
- hostile witness
- immunity
- incest
- inquest
- intellectual property
- judicial economy
- jurisdiction
- jurist
- jury instructions
- jury trial
- jus sanguinis
- jus soli
- justice
- laches
- lawyer
- leading question
- legal aspects of transsexualism
- 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
- notitia criminis
- Oral law
- 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
- reus
- reversible error
- rule of law
- sanctions
- senatusconsultus
- sentence
- sodomy law
- standing
- statute of limitations
- statute
- statutory law
- Strategic lawsuits agains public participation
- strike from the record
- Supreme court
- tax law
- terrorism
- time constraints
- tort
- trade secret
- trademark
- trial de novo
- Unidroit
- usucaption
- usufruct
- vexatious litigation
- voluntas necandi
- will
- with prejudice
- witness
- writ of certiorari
- writ of mandamus
- writ of habeas corpus
Legal books:
see also Crime
Not quite law: Law of nature -- Murphy's law -- Finagle's law -- Hanlon's Razor -- Sturgeon's law -- Parkinson's 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.