Introduction To Law
Introduction To Law
Introduction To Law
• Definition of law:
• “ A set of rules, general and abstract,
which govern the behaivior and the
relationships of the individuals in the
society, and which are imposed by
sanctions enforced by the competent
public authorities.”
CHAPTER1: THE CONCEPT OF LAW
2. Administrative Law:
• is a group of legal rules that organizes the
working of public utilities. It also governs the
relationships among the public employees and
the state, and determines the procedures of the
administrative disputes settlement.
• The administrative law deals in detail with the
Executive Authority, it describes its form as well
as its activities.
CHAPTER2: BRANCHES OF LAW
3- Financial law:
Is a group of rules regulating public resources
and expenditures which constitute the state
budget. Its main subdivision is Tax Law.
• Financial Law should logically be a
subdivision of Administrative Law. However,
it acquired a special status as an
independent branch of Public Law.
CHAPTER2: BRANCHES OF LAW
1. Civil Law
2. Commercial Law
3. Maritime law
4. Labor law
5. Law of civil and commercial procedures.
6. Aviation Law
7. Agricalture law
8. Private international Law
CHAPTER3: BRANCHES OF LAW
1. Civil Law
• Civil Law is the origin of the private law. It
comprises the objective rules which govern the
private relationships among people except
those related to another branch of the private
law.
• The private relationships which are governed by
civil law are two kinds: family relationships and
financial relationships.
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2. Commercial Law:
• Is a set of rules which regulates the
acts of commerce as well as
merchants.
• It is to be observed that the acts of
commerce are divided into two
groups:
CHAPTER3: BRANCHES OF LAW
3. Maritime Law:
• Is a group of legal rules which govern the
relationship arising from and connected with
the commercial exploitation of ships.
Therefore, the most important subject matter
in the maritime law is the ship or the
maritime navigation in general.
CHAPTER3: BRANCHES OF LAW
6. Aviation Law:
• Avaition Law is relatively one of the most
moderen branchs of the private law. It
comprises two sets of legal rules:
• The first one is concerned with matters
pertaining to public international and national
law, and the other governs the relationships
involved with the commercial exploitation of
aircraft.
CHAPTER3: BRANCHES OF LAW
7. Agriculture Law:
• This branch lays down the rules which regulate
the relationships among the owners of the
agricultural lands and the landholders or the land
workers.
A. What do we mean by the agriculture ownership?
• The ownership of movable or immovable things
in general denotes the relation between a person
and any right that is vested in him.
CHAPTER3: BRANCHES OF LAW
A. Mandatory rules:
• Mandatory legal rules are those rules which are related
directly to public order, any agreement contrary to these
rules is absolutely void.
• Examples of mandatory rules:
1. Rules of Criminal Law
2. Some of the Civil Law ruels that are compulsory to the
fullest sense.
3. Rules creating social duties such as military service and
payment of taxes.
CHAPTER4: MANDATORY AND SUPPLEMENTARY
B. Supplementary rules:
• Are those which people are not forced to
follow and may agree on something contrary
to their provisions.
• Examples of supplementary rules are:
• Article 457/1 of the Egyptian Civil Code
related to rules governing the delivery of a
sold thing which states that:
CHAPTER4: MANDATORY AND SUPPLEMENTARY
D. Kinds of legislation:
• There are three kinds of legislation.
I. The constitution:
• The first and most supreme source of law all
over the world is the constitution “Principal
Legislation”. It comes before any other
source of law and cannot be violated by any
of them.
CHAPTER5: SOURCES OF LAW
• Procedures of enactment:
• The process of enacting an ordinary
legislation passes through four stages
namely:
1. Proposal or presentation of a bill
2. Approval (passing)
3. Promulgation
4. Publication
CHAPTER5: SOURCES OF LAW
B. Advantages of Custom:
• Custom is more flexible than the written
law.
• Custom implements legislation.
• Custom is found as reflection to the true
needs of the community.
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• Disadvantages of Custom
1.Customary rules are often ambiguous.
2.Customary rules develop very slowly.
3.Custom may not facilitate the evolution of
a complete harmony in one country due to
the existence of different local customs.
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2. Reasonableness:
• A legally enforceable custom cannot conflict with
fundamental principles of right and wrong, so a
customary right to commit a crime, for example,
could never be accepted.
3. Certainty and clarity:
• It must be certain and clear. The locality in which the
custom operates must be defined, along with the
people to whom rights are granted and the extent of
those rights.
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4. Locality:
• It must be specific to a particular geographical area.
When a custom is recognized as granting a right, it
grants that only to those specified. Custom is only
ever a source of local law.
5. Continuity:
• It must have existed continuously. The rights granted
by custom do not have to be exercised continuously
since the last century, but it must have been possible
to exercise then since then.
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6. Exercised as a right:
• It must have been exercised peaceably, openly and
as of right. Customs cannot create legal rights if they
are only exercised by permission of someone else.
• In Mills v Corporation of Colchester (1867) it was
held that a customary right to fish had no legal force
where the right had always depended on the granting
of a license, even though such licenses had
traditionally been granted to local people on request.
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7. Consistency:
• It must be consistent with other local customs.
• For example, if a custom is alleged to give the
inhabitants of one farm the right to fish in a lake, it
cannot give another farm the right to drain the lake.
• The usual course where conflict arises is to deny
that the custom has any force, though this is not
possible if it has already been recognized by a
court.
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8. Obligatory:
• Where a custom imposes a specific duty, that duty
must be obligatory – a custom cannot provide that
the Lord of the Manor grants villagers a right of way
over his land only if he likes them.
9. Conformity with a statute:
• A custom which is in conflict with a statute will not
be held to give rise to law.
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• Subsection 2: Doctrine
• Doctrine includes legal notes,
explanations, interpretation and
comments made by academic legal
writers, whether jurists, lawyers,
professors of law or even judges when
commenting on judgments.
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1. Familial rights:
• A family is a group of individuals who are
connected with each other by kinship.
These include parents, sons, brothers and
sisters.
• Kinship may result also from marriage like
the relationship between the father, mother,
or brother of the husband and the wife.
CHAPTER1: KINDS OF RIGHTS
2. Pecuniary rights:
• Pecuniary rights are a sort of rights the subject
matter of which can be evaluated in money.
These rights are alienable and can prescribe.
• They may be transferred to the heirs after death.
• These rights may be waived.
• All these provisions are totally different from the
characteristics of public and familial rights.
CHAPTER1: KINDS OF RIGHTS
• Definition of a person:
• A person may defined in law as an entity which
is capable of enjoying and enforcing rights and
undertaking obligations, whereas a thing is the
subject of such rights and obligations.
• Persons are two kinds: natural persons and
artificial persons (Juristic persons).
CHAPTER3: THE PERSONS
• Concerning international
organizations, they raise so many
questions such as legal personality,
structure, source of law, legal acts,
privileges and immunities, and
international responsibility.
CHAPTER4: THE THINGS
A. Definition:
• Everything that is not outside the ambit of trade by
its nature or by virtue of the law may be the object
of financial rights.
• Thus, there are things that can be the object of
exclusive possession, such as cars, buildings,
foods, ..etc.
• While there are things that cannot be the object of
exclusive possession, such as the sun, the air or
the sea.
CHAPTER4: THE THINGS
B. Catigories of Things:
• Things may be divided into materail and non-
matierial things.
• They may be either consumable or non-
consumable.
• They also may either be fungible or non-fungible.
• Finally, they may either be immovalbe or
movalbe.
CHAPTER4: THE THINGS
2. Movable things:
• Movable things may either be naturally movable
things or, otherwise, movable things by destination:
• Naturaally movable things are those things which
are not fixed and which cannot be removed form
one place to other without damage.
• The naturally movable things may either be material
such as animals, cars, …etc.
CHAPTER4: THE THINGS