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Administrative law

Constitutional law

Intellectual property law

International law

Laws of specific people groups

Abortion law by country

Laws that allow, prohibit, or regulate abortion

Administrative court

Type of court specializing in administrative law

Administrative law

Branch of law governing administrative agencies

The totality of applicable law for the oceans and their use

Term for restrictions and regulations upon the development, storage, proliferation and usage of conventional weapons, and weapons of mass destruction

Art and culture law

Law relating Art and culture

Act causing the reasonable apprehension of an immediate harmful or offensive touching

Authentication (law)

Legal process by which evidence is determined to be genuine

Common law act of unconsented harmful or offensive contact with a person

Beneficiary (trust)

In trust law, person or persons who are entitled to the benefit of any trust arrangement

Law prohibiting blasphemy

Measures taken by a state or a bloc of states to monitor its borders and regulate the movement of people, animals, and goods across the border

Breach of contract

Civil wrong in which a binding agreement is not honored by one or more of the parties to the contract

Set of ordinances and regulations made by ecclesiastical authority

Canon law of the Catholic Church

Canon law of the Catholic Church

Ancient and contemporary legal tradition of China

Multilateral treaty dedicated to flora and fauna

Codification of the civil law

Civil law (common law)

Branch of private law (outside criminal law) that regulates the patrimonial and personal relations between physical or moral persons

Civil law (legal system)

Legal system originating in continental Europe

Civil law notary

Lawyer of noncontentious private civil law

Law created by judges

Conflict of laws

Law which governs contracts and legal disputes between private persons (natural or legal) in different sovereign jurisdictions

Concept of legal value in connection with contracts

Constituent assembly

Gathering for the purpose of writing or revising a constitution

Constitutional amendment

Modification to some constitutional instrument

Constitutional Commission

Legal entity approved by a goverment to review a constitution

Constitutional court

Court that deals primarily with constitutional law

Constitutional crisis

Conflict a governing law is unable to resolve

Constitutional law

Constructive trust

Type of legal remedy

Legally binding document establishing rights and duties between parties

Contractual term

Any provision forming part of a contract

Conversion (law)

Transfer of legal title of property

Practice of mandating free use in all derivatives of a work

Legal concept regulating rights of a creator to their work

Copyright troll

Party that enforces copyrights for purposes of making money through litigation

Creative Commons

Organization creating copyright licenses for the public release of creative works

Body of law that relates to crimes

Criticism of copyright

Movement dissenting the nature of current copyright law

Government agency which regulates the flow of goods and collects tariffs

Legal term for compensation awarded for loss or injury

Illegal act of harming the reputation of a legal person through false or misleading statement

Defense (legal)

In law, attempt to avoid criminal or civil liability

Discretionary trust

Trust where the beneficiaries and/or their entitlements to the trust fund are not fixed but are determined by the settlor

Torts that provide the common law rules

Laws governing elections

Element (criminal law)

Fact that must be proven for a criminal conviction

Topics referred to by the same term

Environmental law

Branch of law concerning the natural environment

Set of legal principles supplementing but distinct from the Common Law

Ownership of land or arable land

Judicial device in common law where a court may prevent a person from making assertions

European Union legislative procedure

Procedures for the adoption of legislation in the European Union

Body of facts in a legal proceeding

Ex post facto law

Law with retroactive effect

Excommunication

Censure used to deprive, suspend, or limit membership in a religious community

Exception to the exclusive right granted by copyright law to the author of a creative work

Legal rules or restrictions for financial institutions

Financial regulation

Rules or restrictions for financial institutions

Free licensed works in any field

Free-culture movement

Social movement promoting the freedom to distribute and modify the creative works of others

Freedom of information laws by country

Fundamental rights

Basic rights protected and upheld by law

Future interest

Property right that only takes effect in the future instead immediately

General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade

Multilateral agreement regulating international trade

Gentlemen's agreement

Informal, non-binding agreement, sometimes based on honor

Golden rule (law)

Traditional rule of statutory interpretation in English law

Court action challenging unlawful detention

Jewish rabbinical law

Immigration law

National government policies which control the phenomenon of immigration to their country

Independence referendum

Referendum to decide whether a territory should become an independent country

Practice of passing on property upon the death of individuals

A legal order to stop doing something

Intellectual property

Ownership of creative expressions and processes

Intentional infliction of emotional distress

Tort in common law

Intentional tort

Category of torts that describes a civil wrong resulting from an intentional act on the part of the tortfeasor

International criminal law

Public international law

International human rights law

Body of international law designed to promote human rights

International humanitarian law

Law of war to protect non-combatants

International law

Generally accepted rules, norms and standards in international relations

International law

Generally accepted rules, norms and standards in international relations

International taxation

Taxation between countries

Whether a court can or cannot rule upon something

Form of law that deals with the rights to use, alienate, or exclude others from land

Law of obligations

Branch of private law

International regulations of warfare

Legal liability

Legal obligation for any damage, enforceable by either civil law or criminal law

Enforcement of legal rights or penalties by a court

Law enacted by a legislature or other governing body

List of national legal systems

System for interpreting and enforcing the laws

Lists of legislation

Metaconstitution

Copyrights related to attribution, anonymity, and integrity of the work

Nationality law

Law of a sovereign state

Natural justice

Concept in UK law

Failure to exercise reasonable care

Something that causes inconvenience or damage

Offer and acceptance

Two components of agreement

Provisional release of a prisoner who agrees to certain conditions

Partition (politics)

Formal change of political borders which divides at least one territory previously considered a unified whole by some community

Documents for international travel issued by national governments

Type of legal protection for an invention

Concept in patent law

Polycentric law

Theoretical legal structure

Prerogative writ

Court order directing a government or other court

Civil legal system involving relationships between individuals

Private property (disambiguation)

Topics referred to by the same term

Area of law governing ownership of real and personal property

Works outside the scope of copyright law

Official review of events or actions ordered by a government body

Public liability

Articles related to civil liability in general (encompassing generally both contractual and extracontractual liability)

Fictional contract recognised by a court

Process of putting into effect a documentation in international law

General term for rules, including delegated legislation and self-regulation

Regulatory agency

Government agency responsible for exercising autonomous authority over some area of human activity in a regulatory or supervisory capacity

Regulatory compliance

Organizational efforts to comply with relevant laws, policies, and regulations

Relevance (law)

Tendency of an item of evidence to prove/disprove one of the legal elements of a case

Ethical and moral codes taught by religious traditions

Removal or reversal of a law

Resolution (law)

Often non-binding statement of intent in law

Royal prerogative

Custom found in common or civil law of monarchies that gives the sovereign certain privileges and power

Process by which executive branch agencies create regulations

Act of withdrawing from an organization, union, military alliance or especially a political entity

Type of legal system

Specific performance

Equitable remedy in contract law

State of emergency

Legal declaration or de facto acts by a government allowing assumption of extraordinary powers

Status of not being a national of any country

Written law set down by a legislature or by a legislator

Mandatory one-sided contract, is used in the banking sector

Legal restriction that limits the number of terms an officeholder may serve in a particular elected office

Legal claim of civil wrong

Characteristics of visual appearance of a product

Business information kept secret to gain or maintain a competitive advantage

Skyscraper in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA

Transitional justice

Judicial and non-judicial measures implemented in order to redress legacies of human rights abuses or segments of past injustices

Document authorizing a person to enter, stay in, or leave a territory

Express agreement between nations under international law

Legal concept of intentional interference

Trespass to chattels

Legal term for interference to another’s possessions

Trespass to land

Legal concept, type of trespass

Three-party fiduciary relationship

Person who holds property, authority, or a position of trust or responsibility for the benefit of another

Unconscionability

Undue influence

An equitable doctrine that involves one person taking advantage of a position of power over another person

Proposed U.S. state law

United Nations resolution

Formal text adopted by a United Nations body

United States trust law

Law regulating a wealth-holding legal instrument

Universal jurisdiction

Legal doctrine that some acts can be tried regardless of where they occurred, particularly applied to war crimes

Will and testament

Legal declaration by which a person distributes their property at death