 Laws
established by the legislature. Laws dictate how we as a society act
in concert to protective ourselves, our families, business and civil
rights. There are two forms of laws criminal and civil (common).
Another form of law is international law which controls how nations
interact with one another.
Civil Laws:
"Civil law is
a legal
system rooted
in the Roman
Empire and
was comprehensively codified and disseminated
starting in the 19th century, most notably with
France's Napoleonic
Code (1804)
and Germany's Bürgerliches
Gesetzbuch (1900). Unlike common
law systems,
which rely heavily on judicial precedent, civil
law systems are characterized by their reliance on legal
codes that
function as the primary source of law. Today,
civil law is the world's most common legal system,
practiced in about 150 countries.
Source
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