CLASSIFICATION OF LAW There are four different classifications of law that are found around the world. In this brief article I will explain the differences that make up the four classifications of law. 1. Substantive of laws vs. Procedures of laws- Substantive of law is the substance that makes up a law. It is the meaning of a law that explains what you can and cannot do. For example the law states that you cannot murder another human being unless it was in self defense‚
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Criminal Law Foundations Evaluation CJA 484 – Criminal Justice Administration Capstone Jacinto C. Rincon June 24‚ 2013 David Mailloux With a great deal of debate the design of the United States along with the lay out by the founders of the country who took their roll in laying down the “rules” of the United States of America very seriously. The Articles of Confederation‚ the Bill of Rights‚ and the US Constitution lay the floor work of a layer of protection afforded to all United States Citizens
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specifically states that an arrest warrant must be based on probable cause and supported by oath or affirmation (Hall‚ 2014). It further stipulates that people to be seized must be specifically addressed in the warrant (Hall‚ 2014). In a 1980 case law‚ Payton v. New York‚ an arrest warrant allows an officer to enter a home to effect an arrest as long as there is reason to believe
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Handout 3.1 - The Difference Between Civil Law and Criminal Law When is a legal problem criminal and when is it civil? What difference does it make whether it is criminal or civil? One way of looking at criminal law is that it is dealing with something of public interest. For example‚ the public has an interest in seeing that people are protected from being robbed or assaulted. These are legal problems that fall into the criminal law. Criminal law involves punishing and rehabilitating offenders
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My interest in criminal law dates back to 1989‚ where I witnessed an incident that happened in my home in Santa Ana‚ California. From what I remember‚ one of the three teenagers threw a baseball size rock through our backyard sliding glass door. My father chased them down and got one of them by the ear. He took him in the house and dialed 911 for police assistance. The other two teenagers got the mother to the front door of my house. It was a chaotic scene‚ the mother of the offender frantically
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1) Citation Palsgraf v. Long Island R. Co 248 N.Y. 339‚ 162 N.E. 99 (1928) Court of Appeals of New York 2) Key facts a. The plaintiff‚ Helen Palsgraf‚ was waiting for a train on a station platform. b. A man carrying a package was rushing to catch a train that was moving away from a platform across the tracks from Palsgraf. c. As the man attempted to jump aboard the moving train‚ he seemed unsteady and about to fall. d. A railroad guard on the car reached forward to grab him and another guard
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------------------------------------------------- Contributions of the IMT at Nuremberg and the IMTFE to the modern law of International Criminal Law Undoubtedly‚ major development in international law has occurred in recent years through the establishment of several tribunals and their statutes. There have been several criticisms concerning the decisions delivered by those tribunals mainly arguing that they were biased and illegitimate for numerous reasons. They were accused of being unfair and
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The law of intention‚ following the cases of Woollin [1999] 1 AC 82 and Matthews [2003] 3 Cr App R 30‚ is now satisfactorily defined in the criminal law. Intention‚ normally means desire to aim at something. However‚ in criminal law‚ mens rea known as ‘guilty mine’‚ it requires two distinguishable intentions which are direct intention as well as oblique intention‚ and apart from‚ also recklessness. Direct intention means the consequences of the action is desired specifically‚ just like murder
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DENTAL LAW IN PRACTICE Introduction I graduated in nineteen ninety three from the University of Sheffield. This seems like a long time ago now‚ however I have always strived towards my own constant personal development. During my training years at Sheffield if I am honest there was little or no training in Dental Law apart from a couple of lectures. On reflection I believe we were only just coming out of the era ‘where the clinician always knows best’. On graduation I did my vocational training
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R for Programmers Norman Matloff University of California‚ Davis c 2007-8‚ N. Matloff December 4‚ 2008 IMPORTANT NOTICE: This document is no longer being maintained. My book on R programming‚ The Art of R Programming‚ is due out in August 2011. You are welcome to use an early draft at http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/˜matloff/132/NSPpart.pdf; it was about 50% complete and contains bugs‚ but should be useful. Licensing: This work‚ dated December 4‚ 2008‚ is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-No
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