LOMA 311 Chapter 1 Exam 2025
Questions and Answers
Primary sources of law - ✔✔Constitutions, Statutes, Administrative regulations, &
Treaties and international agreements
Constitution - ✔✔A relatively permanent document or group of documents which
set out the fundamental principles that determine the powers and
duties of a jurisdiction's government and the rights of the people
of the jurisdiction
Statutes - ✔✔Laws enacted by the legislative branch of a government
Administrative regulations - ✔✔Rules or orders adopted by agencies within the
executive branch
of a government
Treaties and international agreements - ✔✔Formal agreements between two or more
countries
Case law - ✔✔Law created by a jurisdiction's courts and found in the courts'
written decisions
legislative branch - ✔✔consists of one or more legislative bodies that
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, are responsible for enacting laws to govern the applicable jurisdiction
executive branch - ✔✔consists of a number of agencies or ministries
that are responsible for administering, enforcing, or carrying out the jurisdiction's
laws
judicial branch - ✔✔consists of a system of courts that are responsible
for applying and interpreting the jurisdiction's laws
parliamentary democracies - ✔✔other countries
are parliamentary democracies in which the legislative branch of government,
usually known as the Parliament, has ultimate authority for making all laws
federal system - ✔✔federal government and a number of lower level governments
share governmental powers
Congress - ✔✔legislative branch of the federal government is referred to
state legislature - ✔✔legislative branch of a state government typically is referred to as
code - ✔✔All of the laws enacted by each legislative body are compiled and organized
into a collection of laws that typically is referred to as
Internal Revenue Code (I.R.C.). - ✔✔the federal tax laws are found in a portion of the
U.S. Code that is
generally referred to as
state insurance code - ✔✔a portion of each state code is devoted to regulating the
insurance industry within the applicable
state; that portion of the state code is often known as
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Questions and Answers
Primary sources of law - ✔✔Constitutions, Statutes, Administrative regulations, &
Treaties and international agreements
Constitution - ✔✔A relatively permanent document or group of documents which
set out the fundamental principles that determine the powers and
duties of a jurisdiction's government and the rights of the people
of the jurisdiction
Statutes - ✔✔Laws enacted by the legislative branch of a government
Administrative regulations - ✔✔Rules or orders adopted by agencies within the
executive branch
of a government
Treaties and international agreements - ✔✔Formal agreements between two or more
countries
Case law - ✔✔Law created by a jurisdiction's courts and found in the courts'
written decisions
legislative branch - ✔✔consists of one or more legislative bodies that
COPYRIGHT © 2025 BY OLIVIA WEST, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED 1
, are responsible for enacting laws to govern the applicable jurisdiction
executive branch - ✔✔consists of a number of agencies or ministries
that are responsible for administering, enforcing, or carrying out the jurisdiction's
laws
judicial branch - ✔✔consists of a system of courts that are responsible
for applying and interpreting the jurisdiction's laws
parliamentary democracies - ✔✔other countries
are parliamentary democracies in which the legislative branch of government,
usually known as the Parliament, has ultimate authority for making all laws
federal system - ✔✔federal government and a number of lower level governments
share governmental powers
Congress - ✔✔legislative branch of the federal government is referred to
state legislature - ✔✔legislative branch of a state government typically is referred to as
code - ✔✔All of the laws enacted by each legislative body are compiled and organized
into a collection of laws that typically is referred to as
Internal Revenue Code (I.R.C.). - ✔✔the federal tax laws are found in a portion of the
U.S. Code that is
generally referred to as
state insurance code - ✔✔a portion of each state code is devoted to regulating the
insurance industry within the applicable
state; that portion of the state code is often known as
COPYRIGHT © 2025 BY OLIVIA WEST, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED 2
