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• Administrative law: the body of law created by administrative agencies in order to carry out their duties and responsibilities.
• Binding Authority: any source of law that a court must follow when deciding a case.
• Breach: the failure to perform a legal obligation.
• Case Law: the rules of law announced in court decisions.
• Citation: a reference to a publication in which a legal authority can be found.
• Civil Law: the branch of law dealing with the definition and enforcement of all private or public rights, as opposed to criminal matters.
• Civil Law System: a system of law derived from that of the Roman Empire and based on a code rather than case law.
• Common Law: the body of law developed from custom or judicial decisions in English and U.S. courts, not attributable to a legislature.
• Constitutional Law: the body of law derived from the U.S Constitution and the constitutions of the various states.
• Criminal Law: law that defines and governs actions that constitute crimes (wrongful actions committed against society for which society demands redress).
• Cyberlaw: all laws governing electronic communications and transactions.
• Defendant: one against whom a lawsuit is brought; the accused person in a criminal proceeding.
• Equitable Principles and Maxims: general propositions or principles of law that have to do with fairness.
• Historical School: A school of legal thought that emphasizes the evolutionary process of law and looks to the past to discover what the principles of contemporary law should be.
• International Law: the law that governs relations among nations.
• Jurisprudence: the science or philosophy of law.
• Law: a body of enforceable rules governing relationships among individuals and between individuals and their society.
• Legal Positivism: a school of legal thought centered on the assumption that there is no law higher than the laws created by a national government.
• Legal Realism: a school of legal thought of the 1920s...