BUSA 364 BUSINESS LAW 1 MCGILL UNIVERSITY QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS
Rule Of Law - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A substantiv legal principle; it is the supremacy of regular ops
opposed to arbitrary power. It is the doctrine that every person is subject to ordinary law within a given
jurisdiction.
Obligation - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A legal or moral duty to do or not do something; an obligation may
refer to anything that a person is bound to do or forbear from doing whether the duty is imposed by
law, contract social relations, promise, courtesy, kindness or morality.
POGG - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Peace, Order, Good Government
Legislation - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅The process of making or enacting a positive law in written form,
according to some type of formal procedure by a branch of government constituted to perform this
process.
Codification - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅The process of compiling, systematising and arranging the laws of
a given jurisdiction, of a discrete branch of the law, into an order code.
Guilt - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Criminal
Responsibility - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Civic
Usage - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅a well known customary and uninformed practice
Residual Powers Clause - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅The powers that are not enumerated or interpreted.
Federal Government has powers for the _____________ course.
Standards of Conduct - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅What kind of behaviour is unacceptable to reduce
friction.
, Private Law - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Rules that regulate the legal relationship and obligations between
individual citizens.
1. Contract Law
2. Commercial Law
3. Property Law
4. Civil Liability Law
Public Law - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Governs the relationship between the citizens and their state or
nation.
1. Criminal Law
2. Taxation Law
3. Highway Law
4. Language Law
Civil Law - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Law which is based on general principles is largely decided upon by
governing officials who then codify them into systematic organisation of statutes.
Common Law - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Basis for law grounded in the principle of Jurisprudence.
Precedent - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A judgment or decision of a Court of Law, subsequently considered
as an authority for deciding a similar situation in the same manner.
Notwithstanding Clause - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Section 33 - empowers the federal/provincial
government to pass law notwithstanding some of the provisions of the charter.
Oakes test - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Analysis of the Limitations clause (section 1) that allows reasonable
limitations on rights and freedoms through legislation if it can be "demonstrably justified in a free and
democratic society".
Adjectival Law - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Contains the procedures enabling us to obtain what is rightfully
ours under the substantive law
AND ANSWERS
Rule Of Law - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A substantiv legal principle; it is the supremacy of regular ops
opposed to arbitrary power. It is the doctrine that every person is subject to ordinary law within a given
jurisdiction.
Obligation - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A legal or moral duty to do or not do something; an obligation may
refer to anything that a person is bound to do or forbear from doing whether the duty is imposed by
law, contract social relations, promise, courtesy, kindness or morality.
POGG - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Peace, Order, Good Government
Legislation - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅The process of making or enacting a positive law in written form,
according to some type of formal procedure by a branch of government constituted to perform this
process.
Codification - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅The process of compiling, systematising and arranging the laws of
a given jurisdiction, of a discrete branch of the law, into an order code.
Guilt - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Criminal
Responsibility - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Civic
Usage - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅a well known customary and uninformed practice
Residual Powers Clause - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅The powers that are not enumerated or interpreted.
Federal Government has powers for the _____________ course.
Standards of Conduct - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅What kind of behaviour is unacceptable to reduce
friction.
, Private Law - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Rules that regulate the legal relationship and obligations between
individual citizens.
1. Contract Law
2. Commercial Law
3. Property Law
4. Civil Liability Law
Public Law - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Governs the relationship between the citizens and their state or
nation.
1. Criminal Law
2. Taxation Law
3. Highway Law
4. Language Law
Civil Law - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Law which is based on general principles is largely decided upon by
governing officials who then codify them into systematic organisation of statutes.
Common Law - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Basis for law grounded in the principle of Jurisprudence.
Precedent - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A judgment or decision of a Court of Law, subsequently considered
as an authority for deciding a similar situation in the same manner.
Notwithstanding Clause - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Section 33 - empowers the federal/provincial
government to pass law notwithstanding some of the provisions of the charter.
Oakes test - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Analysis of the Limitations clause (section 1) that allows reasonable
limitations on rights and freedoms through legislation if it can be "demonstrably justified in a free and
democratic society".
Adjectival Law - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Contains the procedures enabling us to obtain what is rightfully
ours under the substantive law
