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V540 Legal Structure School of Public and Environmental Affairs

V540 Legal Structure School of Public and Environmental Affairs. What is “Law”? Black’s Law Dictionary: “Law in its generic sense, is a body of rules of action or conduct prescribed by controlling authority, and having binding legal force.” Merriam Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary:

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V540 Legal Structure School of Public and Environmental Affairs

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  1. V540 Legal Structure School of Public and Environmental Affairs

  2. What is “Law”? Black’s Law Dictionary: “Law in its generic sense, is a body of rules of action or conduct prescribed by controlling authority, and having binding legal force.” Merriam Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary: “A binding custom or practice of a community. A rule of conduct or action prescribed or formally recognized as binding or enforced by a controlling authority.”

  3. What is “Justice”? Black’s Law Dictionary: “Proper administration of laws. In Jurisprudence the constant and perpetual disposition of legal matters or disputes to render every man his due.” Merriam Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary: “The maintenance or administration of what is just, esp. by impartial adjustment of conflicting claims or the assignment of merited rewards or punishments.”

  4. What do we mean by “Just”? Merriam Webster’s: “Acting or being in conformity with what is morally upright or good. Being what is merited, deserved. Having a basis in or conforming to fact or reason.” Black’s Law Dictionary “Conforming to or consonant with what is legal or lawful; legally right; lawful”

  5. Chief Justice John Marshall on the branches of government: • “The difference between the departments undoubtedly is, that the legislature makes, the executive executes, and judiciary construes the law.”

  6. SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES 410 U.S. 959; 93 S. Ct. 1409; 35 L. Ed. 2d 694; 1973 U.S. LEXIS 3282

  7. Federal County/Municipal State President & Agencies County/ City Court US Legislature Federal Courts State Courts State Legislature City Council Governor Mayor Ordinance Executive Order & Regulation Executive Orders & Regulation Statutes Type of Law Cases Statutes Cases State Code Federal Register Reporters Statutes at Large Reporters Compilation of Law United States Reports e.g., P.L. 107-296 Supreme Ct. Federal Reporter Circuit Court Federal Supplement, Second Series District Court Code of Federal Regulations Codification of Law United States Code

  8. Black’s Law Dictionary: Common law consists of those principles, usage, and rules of action applicable to government and security of persons and property which do not rest for their authority upon any express and positive declaration of the will of the legislature.

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