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What is Law?
Hammurabi Code
What is Law? Hammurabi Code Law of Moses
What is Law? Hammurabi Code Law of Moses Justinian Code
What is Law? Hammurabi Code Law of Moses Justinian Code Magna Carta
What is Law? Hammurabi Code Law of Moses Justinian Code Magna Carta Napoleonic Code of 1804
What is Law? What is right
Basis of Law
British Common Law
Basis of Law British Common Law Napoleonic Code
Basis of Law British Common Law Napoleonic Code Decree
Basis of Law British Common Law Napoleonic Code Decree No Law
Employment Law
Contract Law
What is a Contract?
Offer
What is a Contract? Offer Acceptance
What is a Contract? Offer Acceptance Consideration
What is a Contract? Offer Acceptance Consideration Capacity to Contract
What is a Contract? Offer Acceptance Consideration Capacity to Contract Objective must be legal
Tort
An injury or wrong committed, either with or without force, to the person or property of another. Such injury may arise by nonfeasance, or by the malfeasance or the misfeasance of the wrongdoer.
Tort A breach of duty
Tort Assault, battery, false imprisonment, defamation, abuse of process, right of privacy, infliction of mental distress
Criminal Law
Enforced by the State (Government)
Criminal Law Enforced by the State (Government) Continually Changing
Criminal Law Enforced by the State (Government) Continually changing Reflects society’s values
Federal Law
Legislation
Federal Law Legislation Executive Order
What is this case? An employee is fired for wearing a crucifix.
What is this case? An employee is sexually harassed at work
What is this case? Employees are told they can’t leave work until the job is competed, and the doors are locked
What is this case? An employee is fired because he is moonlighting for another company
What is this case? An individual is not hired because she is African- American
What is this case? An employee is wrongly accused of stealing, and is fired in front of other staff, with a huge scene.