Article by Ray Mason

DEFINITION OF CIVIL LAW: Civil law is the law that resolves non-criminal disputes such as difference over the meaning of contracts, property ownership, divorce, child custody, and damages for personal and property damage. A civil court is a place where people can solve their problems with others. Civil law is to provide a legal remedy to solve problems. Sometimes civil law is based on a state or federal statute as well. TYPES OF CIVIL CASESCivil law covers a variety of topics as below: ?Consumer law?International law?Agricultural law?Employment law?Animal law?Entertainment law?Business law?Family law?Sports law ?Tax law?Intentional torts such as libel, slander, defamation of character, battery and assault.?Negligence

PARTIES IN A CIVIL LAW CASE

Plaintiff: The person who feels he or she has not been unfairly treated by another person and seeks a justice in a civil court is called plaintiff in legal terms.

Defendant: the person who the plaintiff claims has treated him or her unfairly.

Constitutional law covers the study, practice, interpretation and administration of laws set forth by a country’s constitution. Any legal subjects that deal with constitutional rights are a part of constitutional law.

Though it would seem that constitutional law is a static field, it is clearly not so, evidenced since the initial writing of the constitution, over 10,000 amendments have been proposed. Hence, constitutional laws are constantly subject to scrutiny and it is possible, though difficult, to amend the constitution.

The constitutional law is concerned with the interpretation and implementation of the United States Constitution. The Constitution is the foundation of the United States; constitutional law takes care of some of the fundamental relationships within the US society.

The most important development of civil rights in the US was the inked of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments. The Thirteenth Amendment attempted to slavery across. With the help of the 13th Amendment, various states enacted “black codes” which were intended to limit the civil rights of the newly free slaves. The 14th Amendment was passed against the “black codes” and ensure that no state “shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of the citizens of the United States… [or] deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law, [or] deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”

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