27. LAW BASICS QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Law - correct answer enforceable rules of conduct in a society
Code - correct answer laws grouped into an organized form
Common law - correct answer law based on current standards or customs of the people
Jurisdiction - correct answer power of a court to decide a case (it means that a court has a
power to do this)
Equity - correct answer basic fairness
Stages in the growth of law - correct answer 1. Individuals are free to take revenge for wrongs
done to them
2. A leader acquires enough power to be able to force revenge-minded individuals to accept an
award of goods or money instead
3. The leader gives this power to a system of courts
4. The leader or central authority acts to prevent and punish wrongs that provoke individuals to
seek revenge
Jury - correct answer panel of citizens used to help interpret customs for the court; the jury is
an institution unique to the english common law system
Injunction - correct answer stops something from being done
Constitution - correct answer document that sets forth the framework of the government and
its relationship to the people it governs; highest sources of law; "the supreme law of the land"
(u.s. constitution, article vi)
Law - correct answer enforceable rules of conduct in a society
Code - correct answer laws grouped into an organized form
Common law - correct answer law based on current standards or customs of the people
Jurisdiction - correct answer power of a court to decide a case (it means that a court has a
power to do this)
Equity - correct answer basic fairness
Stages in the growth of law - correct answer 1. Individuals are free to take revenge for wrongs
done to them
2. A leader acquires enough power to be able to force revenge-minded individuals to accept an
award of goods or money instead
3. The leader gives this power to a system of courts
4. The leader or central authority acts to prevent and punish wrongs that provoke individuals to
seek revenge
Jury - correct answer panel of citizens used to help interpret customs for the court; the jury is
an institution unique to the english common law system
Injunction - correct answer stops something from being done
Constitution - correct answer document that sets forth the framework of the government and
its relationship to the people it governs; highest sources of law; "the supreme law of the land"
(u.s. constitution, article vi)
