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| rules and regulations that determine how the govt will treat its citzens and how the citizens will treat govt |
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| previously decided cases should be followed unless there is a good legal reason to change the the previosu decision |
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| established answer a court comes to after hearing the set of facts about a case |
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| law made by judge decision (stare decisis) |
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| judges interpreting the laws in their own ways or to fit at particular case |
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| when judges look to previous cases similiar to the one their dealing with to interpret law accurately |
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| power to declare and act of congress or the prez unconstitutional |
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| most important const. provision concerning federal govt's regulation of business empowers the United States Congress to regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes |
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| one of the uniform acts that has been made public in attempts to harmonize the law of sales and other commercial transactions in all 50 states |
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| when a case is based on rights and duties b/w two private parties |
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| cases that deal with a private party and the govt |
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| prevents crime and punishs criminals; always statuatory in nature |
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| law that provides remedies for people or entities that have been wronged by another person or entity; purpose is reimbursment or restitution and not punishment. |
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| defines rights and duites |
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| define that procedural means through which violations of rights and duties are remedied |
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| are of the law seperate from common law; developed in england at the same time as the common law; purpose is to avoid unjust results from occuring from strictly following rules of the common law. |
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| is an equitable remedy in the form of a court order whereby a party is required to do or to refrain from doing certain acts |
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| involve a court order to do or not to do something |
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