History/Origins of law

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Rule of Law- Magna Carta

Freedom of the church, law of the land, civil liberties, limit royal authority, fair trial, no arbitrary detention

Ontario human rights code

Entitled to a fair trial

Impacted our charter of rights and freedoms

1215

Code of  Hammurabi

Jurisdiction

The law is written for the public to see

Rule of law (nobody is above the law the law applies equally to everyone)

Punishment laid out

Hebrew/Mosaic Law H

• Book of the Covenant 

• Ten Commandments

• Laws of Worship

• They all built off respect for everyone, especially God

• Break any law you break all of them

• Responsibility also plays a huge role in this law

• The rules of retribution

Roman Law

Birth of Civil Law (private)

• 12 tables of law

• Written on ivory slabs

• Rule of law

• Deals with property ownership, religious issues, and inheritance

• Laws are recorded

• Plebs vs Patricians 

• Council of Plebs

Feudalism

• Development of a hierarchy of the land for the protection of the land

• hierarchy of the land

• Crown land

• Pays taxes
  

Precedent

Relates to laws created by the courts

Binding decisions made by higher courts that affect all levels of the court

Judge made laws

Similar cases are judged similarly

Case Law

Relates to laws created by the courts

Court cases are published in the court reporter in chronological order

The recording of every case

Keeping a record of cases

Parliament/Statute Law

• Government made law

• Acts as parliament

• Political world and Legal world in close contact

• Parliament can do as they want but the courts will decide if the law stays

Greek Law

Creation of democracy

People choose their leaders

Voting for government 

Jurys are created for the first time to judge crimes (400-500 person jury)

No access to lower-class persons