Across
- 4. the law determining how the substantive laws will be enforced
- 6. the rules that govern our personal, social, and business relations, which are enforced by one person's suing another in a private or civil action
- 9. the law of the Roman Empire, from which the common law drew its concepts
- 11. supplementary rules passed under authority of a statute and having the status of law
- 12. an earlier court decision
- 15. the law establishing both the rights an individual has in society and also the limits on her conduct
- 17. rules of natural justice that a hearing must follow
- 18. legal principles founded upon fairness, as developed in the Court of Chancery to relieve the harshness of the common law
- 21. the principle that the primary law-making body is Parliament or the provincial legislatures in their respective jurisdictions and that statues take priority over the common law
- 22. the part of the government composed of courts and officers of the court
- 26. an unwritten convention inherited from Britain that recognizes that although Parliament us supreme and can create any law considered appropriate, citizens are protected from the arbitrary actions of the government
- 27. law development by the merchant guild and the source of common law to negotiate instruments such as cheques and promissory notes
- 28. the public good;law concerning the government and individual's relationships with it, including criminal law and the regulations created by government agencies
- 30. the legal system in England based on judges applying the customs and traditions of the people and then following each other's decisions
- 31. basic rights enumerated in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms including freedom of conscience and religion, of thought and belief, of opinion and expression, and of assembly and association
- 32. a provision in equity whereby one person transfers property to a second person obligated to use it to the benefit of a third person
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- 1. a draft of a proposed law introduced before Parliament or a legislature
- 2. right to life, liberty, and security of the person; and security against unreasonable search and seizure or arbitrary imprisonment or detention
- 3. the final approval of the representative of the British Crown by which a bill becomes law in Canada
- 5. right not to be discriminated against on the basis of grounds such as gender, age, religion, race, or colour, and the guarantee of equal benefit of and protection by the law
- 7. a system of law collateral to the common law, developed by the Court of Chancery
- 8. a.k.a Court of Chancery; a court administering equity and proceeding according to the forms and principles of equity
- 10. the process that united the British colonies in North America as the Dominion of Canada
- 13. the principle that when a matter is addressed by both valid federal and provincial legislation and there is a conflict, the federal legislation takes precedence
- 14. the part of the government empowered with enacting laws
- 16. the process judges use to decide which case is the binding precedent
- 19. the part of the government composed of the Queen acting through the Prime Minister, cabinet, deputy ministers, and government departments and officials
- 20. law in the form of legislation passed by Parliament
- 23. the three historical English courts, where in theory law was discovered in the customs and traditions of the people
- 24. a.k.a. church law; the legal system if the Catholic church, from which law drew principles relating to families and estates
- 25. the legal system used in most of Europe based on a central code, which lists rules stated as broad principles of law that judges apply to the cases that come before them
- 29. the body of rules made by government that can be enforced by the courts or by other government agencies