Unwritten Law

legal system in that it does not always benefit the people who follow the law. For instance, illegally Dieter and indirectly Friendship, stole Consuelo's file from Lotty's clinic. However, there is not enough evidence to prove this and therefore, if Lotty were to go to the police, it would seem as she is hiding something. She has to ask V.I. to resort to illegal means in order to obtain the file from Friendship for the law. Although V.I. does state that they cannot show this file as it was…

them/to protect them/to enforce them. We'll call them layers/government/judges/law enforcement. There are thousands of laws that are written down in your country/state/city. Do you know all of them by heart? Of course not. But it doesn't matter if you didn't know if something was agaisnt the law, you are subject to it. Consider also that a tribe lives as one big family, so just as our own families have rules that are unwritten by our parents that you have to follow, that they recieved from…

Case: Riggs v. Palmer (1889) Facts: A grandfather, Francis B. Palmer, had listed an inheritance to his grandson and defendant, Elmer E. Palmer, in his will but was poisoned and murdered by said grandson (p. 140). The victim’s two daughters Mrs. Riggs and Mrs. Preston were also granted a small portion of the legacies as stated in Francis’ will (p. 141). The Appeals Court ruled Elmer was not entitled to the inheritance and the plaintiffs, Mrs. Riggs and Mrs. Preston, will be awarded full rights of…

rather lack thereof, in Denmark and Sweden. “The unwritten rules draw attention to the crucial importance of political culture. For instance, it would be regarded as an insult if an interest group attempted to bribe an MP, but there are no regulations that prohibit the receipt of gifts.” Although Danish Members of Parliament are not restricted from using their position of power for their own personal gains, and bribery is not actually regulated by any law, the strict normative practices…

to Yamin's book, Gadjah Mada is the Adhyaksa/Jaksa. According to Boechari, an only particular person can apply for the Dhyaksa position. The candidate must be familiar with all literary books and can string up the conformity between all sources of law in giving a decision on the dispute between the kingdom and the people. (“Simposium Sejarah Hukum,” 1976, p. 80) Adhyaksa, interpreted as superintendent or chairperson (Ravensbergen, n.d., p.33) does indeed have an essential position in the…

achieve this, would be to have a clear mind like a blank sheet and clear all preconceptions. In this way, the society will be a ‘tabula rasa’ i.e. it starts afresh by clearing the old fallacies, preconceptions and prejudices aspiring to achieve good laws by training and tempering the ‘empty mind’. Since a rationalist’s mind is skeptical his political approach is the “assimilation of politics to engineering.” Thus, a rationalist would be an engineer who revamps the process from the beginning…

many influences on Canadian law including Hammurabi, Mosaic, and Roman. Britain has had the most influence on Canadian law. Although there have been many influences on Canada 's legal system, Britain has had the most impact for reasons such as Trial by Combat and Ordeal, Common Law, Rule of Law and the British North American Act of 1867. The impact that the Hammurabi laws have had on Canada 's legal system today is that the laws are known, along with the hierarchy of laws. Hammurabi was a famous…

generally of adequate seriousness to warrant dissatisfaction from the greater part of society. Deviance can be anything that does not comply with what others deem as “normal” whether it is breaking a law (criminal) or a social norm (non‐criminal). The sociological view that pertains to crime (any violation of a law) is criminology; better known as criminal justice. The idea of deviance is mind boggling in light of the fact that standards differ from race to race; country to country and time…

them the deposit of $100 when they decline to purchase the car they had initially agreed to purchase. However, from a legal point of view, it is difficult to enforce such a contract because of it being unwritten, and to make matters worse there is lack of proof of payment made to the salesman. In law the lack of written proof of payment makes it very difficult because the party that received the payment may deny receiving payment from the party that made the deposit payment (Frey& Martin,…

deciding officer, and then the appellant appealed to the Chief Appeals Officer, the decision of the Chief Appeals Officer was appealed in the High Court, but was later dismissed by the Supreme Court. The case was in relation to an area of employment law, which concerns itself with the contract of an employee. The question in hand was whether the demonstrator, Sandra Mahon was employed under a contract of service or rather a contract for service, therefore identifying whether she was an…