Deck 3: Families of Law

Question 1

The international human rights movement emerged after World War II to prevent which type of incidents from occurring again?

A)The Holocaust
B)Global warming
C)Spread of HIV/AIDS
D)Valentine's Day Massacre

Answer 1

A

Question 2

Which Supreme Court case extended the exclusionary rule, formerly required in federal cases to states?

A)Mapp v.Ohio
B)Roe v.Wade
C)Miranda v.Arizona
D)Weeks v.United States

Answer 2

A

Question 3

Law that regulates behavior between individuals is:

A)Private Law
B)Public Law
C)Criminal Law
D)Secular Law

Answer 3

A

Question 4

Law that is developed by modern states in their legislatures or through their regulatory process that deals largely with the relations between government and citizens is:

A)Private Law
B)Civil Law
C)Public Law
D)Criminal Law

Question 5

Who was one of the major proponents of communism in the 1800's?

A)Friedrich Nietzsche
B)Emile Durkheim
C)Karl Marx
D)Max Weber

Question 6

The four major legal families found in the world today are ______________, _____________, _______________, and ____________.

Question 7

The primary sources of Islamic Law are:

A)Shari'a and Civil Law
B)Sunnah and Qur'an
C)Shari'a and Sunnah
D)Shari'a and Mohammed

Question 8

The oldest known legal system was the ______________ system.

Question 9

Which legal tradition is one that combines different aspects of more than one legal tradition:

A)Civil Law
B)Socialist Law
C)Common Law
D)Hybrid

Question 10

The primary characteristic of Common Law that distinguishes it from Civil Law is:

A)The scope of subject matter
B)The complexity of application
C)Its influence on legal education
D)Its reliance on precedent

Question 11

The most typical form of borrowing from legal traditions is to combine aspects of which families of law?

A)Common and Socialist
B)Common and Civil
C)Civil and Canon
D)Civil and Socialist

Question 12

Socialist Law is historically grounded in:

A)Civil Law Tradition
B)Common Law Tradition
C)Sacred Law Tradition
D)It was never grounded in any other system of law

Question 13

The Roman Catholic Church developed its own law, which is called:

A)Commercial Law
B)Cannon Law
C)Ten Commandments
D)Civil Law

Question 14

Under Shari'a Law what is the punishment of last resort?

A)Death
B)Imprisonment
C)Amputation
D)Banishment

Question 15

The Mesopotamian system is best known for the development for:

A)Confucianism
B)Germanic code
C)Code of Hammurabi
D)Talmudic law

Question 16

Judicial independence is characteristic of:

A)Civil Law
B)Socialist Law
C)Common Law
D)Islamic Law

Question 17

__________ is the only model country that can be considered a hybrid legal system.

Question 18

________________ is defined as an offense against the state rather than as a dispute between individuals.

Question 19

Approximately how many persons are included in the 3,000 indigenous nations present in the world today?

A)200 million
B)500 million
C)500,000 thousand
D)200,000 thousand

Question 20

____________________ are native laws of persons who originate from or live in a particular area.

Question 21

Private wrongs against individuals or against society are called ________________.

Question 22

The families of law continue to guide the operation of the police, courts and corrections within individual countries.

Question 23

All modern legal systems combine written laws that place limits on behavior, and rules that derive from decisions about particular cases.

Question 24

An example of a type of Civil Law would be the Ten Commandments.

Question 25

The Latin term _______________ is used in Common Law countries to signify the legal force of precedent.

Question 26

_______________ is based on the rules of conduct revealed by God with two primary sources: the Shari'a and the Sunnah.

Question 27

Examples of private law include constitutional law, criminal law and tax law.

Question 28

The most typical form of borrowing is to combine some aspects of Sacred Law and Socialist Law.

Question 29

Napoleon Bonaparte rose to power in France and enacted a series of governmental reforms that significantly changed the administrative and legal structures of that country.

Question 30

______________, which orders public servants to perform the duties that are part of their jobs, is an equity procedure that is common to us today.

Question 31

Equity courts arose out of the practice of appealing directly to the king to rule on cases that did not fit well into the Common Law structure.

Question 32

Both the French and the German codes have been enormously influential in the development of law over the past two centuries.

Question 33

____________________ is law that does not pertain to religion or any religious body.

Question 34

______________ is a body of legislation that deals with the exchange of goods between cities or nations.

Question 35

The Civil Law is more ancient, more complex and more difficult than the French and German codes.

Question 36

The political, economic, and social term used to describe socialism is ______________.

Question 37

The _______________ tradition is the most pervasive legal tradition in the world.

Question 38

During the last 50 years, more widely shared notions of justice have emerged as countries have communicated through the United Nations and other regional and international organizations about issues of common concern.

Question 39

_____________ are crimes against God, and are seen a violation of "natural law."

Question 40

In the sixth century A.D., the Byzantine emperor Justinian arranged for the compilation and codification of the law then in force in the Roman world, the result was the __________________.

Question 41

Women are seen as equals to men under Islamic Law in terms of legal participation.

Question 42

Explain the importance of the French and German Civil Codes in the development of law during the past two centuries.

Question 43

Common Law is based on precedent and therefore law is not written down in one place within this tradition.

Question 44

Throughout history religion and religious texts have always been important sources of influence on the law.

Question 45

Give two examples of the historical origins of the legal traditions and explain how the examples are either of a code based system or a case based system.

Question 46

The United States and England still have separate equity courts to handle equity cases.

Question 47

What is the difference between political and nonpolitical justice?

Question 48

List the six characteristics of Socialist Law that in general distinguish it from Civil Law.

Question 49

The procurator has the same duties and roles in both the Socialist and Civil Law traditions.

Question 50

Discuss the various types of laws: public law, private law, civil law and criminal law.Give an example of each.

Question 51

Discuss the Sacred Law in terms of its other designation Islamic Law.Discuss the following: the two primary sources of Islamic Law, Crime and Punishment under Shari'a, and equality and Islamic Justice.

Question 52

What are the primary differences between the Common Law and the Civil Law families?