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What is private law - correct answer Laws relating to the relationship between individuals and organisations, part of the civil legal system list the three components of private law - correct answer - contract - tort - property Describe features of contract law - correct answer -legally binding agreements made between 2 or more parties -disputes invo...

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Values - correct answer Tells us what's right and wrong Imply a preference to correct human behavior Determine decision making Ethical humility - correct answer awareness of the limits of one's own ethical insights Ethical courage - correct answer Willingness to assess fairly ideas, beliefs and viewpoints differing from their own. Ethical empathy ...

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law - correct answer a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a state, commanding what is right, and prohibiting what is wrong functions of law - correct answer to maintain stability in the social, political, and economic system through dispute resolution, protection of property, and the preservation of the state, while simultaneously permitting ordered change legal sanctions - cor...

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It shall apply in civil and commercial matters whatever the nature of the court or tribunal, does not apply to arbitration - correct answer What is the scope of the 2012 regulation? Usually a permanent body which acts according to the law, its decisions are binding and they are subject to autonomy, independence and impartiality - correct answer What are the main characteristics of a court or tribunal? ...

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Lex Fori - correct answer The domestic law of the place where the court action is being held Lex causae - correct answer is the law which governs the dispute (this is often, but not necessarily, foreign), this happens when a domestic court applies the law of another jurisdiction in order to resolve a dispute Lex loci delicti - correct answer Law of the p...

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- Focus On Characteristics, Traits Or Virtues A Good Person Should Have - Personal Character And Moral Habit Development Rather Than A Particular Action - Correct Answer Virtue Ethics Nicomachean Theory Is By - Correct Answer Aristotle 'Focus Not On The Action But On The Heart' - Correct Answer Nicomachean Theory Recognition And Enforcement Of Righ...

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civil law - correct answer private law commercial law - correct answer private law Labor Law (Employment Law) - correct answer private law maritime law - correct answer private law civil and commercial procedure law - correct answer private law internatio...

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substantive law - correct answer the basic law creating rights and duties Procedural law - correct answer rules enforcing substantive law. It defines the method by which to obtain remedy in court Public law - correct answer the law dealing with the relationship between government and individuals Private law - correct answer ...

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Reactive: consequences after damages occur, then services to deter others - Private Law Origins: from common law - Private Law Older: evolves over decades and, often, centuries - Private Law Examples: tort, contract, property law - Private Law Promotes: norms of competition - Private Law Protects: private interests, agreements, between and among private individuals and private entities - Private Law Examples: Palsgraf case (a negligence case under tort law); cause of action for...

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contract - correct answer fundamental idea is that the obligations finds it's source in an agreement, in sale eg, the agreement must be on object to be exchanges for a fixed definite price in money note: there are 4 distinct principles of liability limits of contractual obligations - correct answer -privity- a contract in principle binds only the parties to it: hence in principle third persons can ne...

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What is private law? - correct answer Private law deals with the mutual relations between citizens. It is subdivided into civil law (contract law, tort law, property law, family law, inheritance law) and commercial law (companies, fair competition, industrial and intellectual law) The Italian codice civile includes what laws? - correct answer The Italian codice civile encompasses both civil and commerc...

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What is law? - correct answer A system of rules and guidelines made and enforced by institutions to govern behaviour. What is public law? - correct answer Public law is relationships between government and individuals or between governments. (Constitutional law, administrative law, criminal law) What is private law? - correct answer Private (civil) law i...

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Definition (and nature) of PIL - correct answer PIL - area of law that deals with private law matters involving a foriegn element --'private' e.g. contract, delict, UE, marriage/divorce, adoption + succession --'foreign element' connects a matter to more than one legal system e.g. parties could be domiciled or habitually resident in different countries; --or the event giving rise to the claim may have occurred abroad; --or a party may cl...

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muirhead and turnball v dickson - correct answer no meeting of the minds when forming the contract - the parties involved had not fully discussed the terms. wolf and wolf v forfar potato co ltd - correct answer a qualified acceptance does not conclude a contract - it is a counter offer/rejection of the original one. findlater v maan - correct answer two ...

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What is an example of a legal fact? - correct answer Dying. 1: *No intention*: No one who dies has intentions of creating legal rights and obligations. 2: *Legal consequences:* The death nevertheless has legal consequences. What is an example of a legal act? - correct answer Contracting. 1: *Intention*: People who engage in a contract (because of freedom to contract) have the explicit intentio...

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Public Law - correct answer deals with issues that affect the general public or state - society as a whole. It covers: Administrative laws; constitutional laws, criminal laws, municipal laws, international laws Private Law (Civil Law) - correct answer affects the rights and obligations of individuals, families, businesses and small groups and exists to assist citizens in disputes that involve private m...

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What is private law and please list is branches - correct answer Private law deals with legal relationships between private individuals or entities, where the state is not directly involved. It governs the rights and obligations of individuals among themselves. Imagine it as rules for interactions between people and businesses. Branches are property law, family law, commercial law What is public law? - correct answer ...

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A norm: a) Is applicable to anybody finds himself in the state of affairs envisaged by the IF-clause. b) Is addressed only to specific and identified individuals. c) Is not applicable to whatever event or behavior matches with the state of affairs envisaged by the IF-clause. d) Is not part of a legal system. - correct answer a. Is applicable to anybody finds himself in the state of affairs envisaged by the IF-clause. Juridical acts: a) Are u...

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What is Western legal tradition based on? - correct answer Roman Law, as developed over centuries from the Justinian compilation. Directum - correct answer "the straight or right way" Word for law that replaced ius Creates droit, derecho, direito, diritto, Recht, right ius - correct answer "pureness" Original word for law based on Roman law ...

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