The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to law:
Contents
- Nature of law
- Legal systems
- Canon law Catholic Church
- Law by source
- Public law
- Administrative law
- Criminal law
- Substantive law and adjectival law
- Law of persons
- Civil law
- Laws by jurisdictional scope
- History
- Basic legal concepts
- Canon law
- Common law
- Other legal systems
- Lists
- References
Law – is the set of rules and principles (laws) by which a society is governed, through enforcement by governmental authorities. Law is also the field which concerns the creation and administration of laws, and includes any and all legal systems.
Nature of law
Law can be described as all of the following:
Legal systems
Canon law (Catholic Church)
Law by source
Public law
Administrative law
Criminal law
Substantive law and adjectival law
Law of persons
Civil law
Laws by jurisdictional scope
History
Basic legal concepts
Canon law
Civil law
Common law
Other legal systems
Lists
Sources of law
Legislatures
Courts
Prisons
References
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