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THE STRUCTURE OF THE LAW - Coggle Diagram
THE STRUCTURE OF THE LAW
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PUBLIC LAW
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4) Including among others constitutional law, administrative law, tax law, criminal law and procedural law
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6) The aim: prosecuting generally or uphold civil order and making sure people doing the right things by everyone
PRIVATE LAW
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2) Containing the rules for contracts, tort law, business organizations and corporations, property ownership, the rights and obligations of family members and so on
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CRIMINAL LAW
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2) Dealing with behavior that construing as an offense against the public, society or state even if the immediate victim is an individual (murder, assault and theft)
CIVIL LAW
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2) Dealing with behavior that constituting an injury to an individual or other private party such as a corporation
Criminal law and civil law differing with respect to how cases initiating, how cases deciding, what kinds of punishment or penalty may imposing, what standards of proof must meeting and what legal protections may available to the defendant