Types of Law (कानुन को किसिमहरु)

  Types of Law (कानुन को किसिमहरु)

There are four different types of law, criminal, civil, common and statuate. In this first task I will explain briefly each one:

1.       Criminal Law:

This is the kind of law that the police enforce. Murder, assault, robbery and rape are all included within the boundaries of criminal law. A good way in which to summarize which offences come under criminal law is ‘an offence which is seen as being against everybody, even though it is not’. For example if a car is stolen, then the theft is against the individual, but it threatens all car owners because they might have their car stolen. Because the view is taken that everybody is threatened by the crime, criminal law is dealt with by the public services and not by private layers or investigators.

2.       Civil Law:

Civil law has many different areas enclosed in it. Examples that come under this law are legal rights, such as a right to an education or to a trade union membership and divorce problems, such as how the furniture is split between the couple and who receives custody of the children. The best way to describe it is that it looks at actions that are not crimes. In civil law it is up to the individuals to sort out their own problems by going to court themselves, or with a lawyer. Where in criminal law the state makes sure that justice is done weather the defendant wants to go to court or not.

3.       Common Law and Precedent:

Common law is based on felling about right and wrong, which we all have. It is common law that tells us that people are more important than things. So a crime committed against a person is looked upon far worse that a crime committed against property.

4.       Statute law:

A statuate law is a law that is made by the government. In England all laws are mainly made by parliament. These laws are written down from start to finish, and therefore different to common laws which are not written down. All new laws are statuate laws even though some are based on common laws, which have gone before. This is because as times change the old common laws start to form holes in which new age crimes can slip through. A good example of this is the data protection act of 1998; this statuate law was based on the common law idea that everybody has a right to privacy. This new statuate law had to be brought out because of the problems caused by information technology, and the fact that individuals personal details like bank numbers and health records could be passed for computer to computer.






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Posted By: Daniel (Bhagwan)