Lists of law topics

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See Law basic topics for a pared-down list and List of basic criminal justice topics for those in the area of criminal law. A List of international public law topics is also maintained separately and deals with such topics as treaties and international organizations.



A

Abuse of process - Admiralty courts - Admiralty law - Act of Parliament - Administration - Administrative law - Admiralty law - Admiralty - Adoption - Adjudication - Adultery - Adversary system - Affidavit - Affiliation - Affirmative defense - Alternative dispute resolution - Alimony - Anarchist law - Annulment - Appellate court Appellate review - Arbitration - Association - Attorney - Autrefois acquit

B

B.C.L. - Bail - Barrister - Bachelor of Civil Law - Bachelor of Legal Letters - Basic Law of various jurisdictions - Best Interests of the Child - Bill of attainder - Binding arbitration - Black's Law Dictionary - British constitutional law

C

Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms - Cannabis: Legal issues - Canon law - Case-based reasoning - Case law - Cause of action - Certiorari - Chancery - Charitable trust - Chattel - Child custody - Child Online Privacy Protection Act - Child support - Chinese law - Citizens arrest - Civil commitment - Civil code - Civil law - Civil law notary - Civil procedure - Civil rights - Civil union - Class action - Codification - Collateral estoppel - Collective rights - Commercial entity - Commercial law - Common law - Common-law marriage - Community property - Comparative law - Commons - Condominium - Conflict of laws - Consent - Consensual crime - Constitutional amendment - Constitutional charter - Constitutional law - Consuetudinary law - Contempt of court - Contracts - Cooperative - Copyright law - Corporation - Corporations law - Corpus Juris Civilis - Corpus Juris Secundum - Court - Court of last resort - Court of record - Court order - Courts of the United Kingdom - Cour de cassation - Crime against humanity - Criminal law - Criminal justice - Criminal procedure - Cross-examination - Crown copyright - Cyber law - Custom

D

Death penalty - Defamation - Defendant - Delicts - Deposition - Digital Millennium Copyright Act - Direct examination - Discovery - Division of property - Divorce - Domestic partner - Double jeopardy - Due process - Duress

E

Ecclesiastical courts - English Law - Environmental law - Equity - Escheat - Estoppel - European Community law - Evidence - Execution - Executive order - Expert witness - Extortion

F

False Claims Law - Family law - Family patrimony - Federal Constitutional Court (Germany) - Federal jurisdiction - Felony - Feudal land tenure - Foundation - Fraud - Freedom of Information Act - Freedom of speech - Freedom of speech (Canada) - Frivolous lawsuit

G

Geneva Convention - Government - Grandparent visitation

H

Habeas corpus - Halsbury's Laws of England - Hate crime - Hate speech - High Court of England and Wales - Hostile witness - Human rights - Human Rights Committee - Human rights issues in the United States -

I

Immigration - individual rights - Informed consent - Injunction - Inquisitorial system - Insanity defense - Insurance - Intellectual property - International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights - International crime - International Criminal Court - International environmental law - International human rights instruments - International law - Interrogatories - Intestacy - Intestate succession - Involuntary commitment - Islamic Law

J

J.D. - Jewish law - Judge - Judicial - Judicial discretion - Judicial Committee of the House of Lords - Judicial Committee of the Privy Council - Judicial economy - Judicial review - Jurisprudence - Juris Doctor - Jurist - Jury - Justification

K

Kangaroo court - Kidnapping - Kosher law

L

L.L.B. - Labor law - Laches - Land use - Last will and testament - Law - Law and literature - Law basic topics - Law French - Law of Ireland - Law of Obligations - Law of the Family - Law of the United Kingdom - Law of the Sea - Law school- Lawsuit- Lawyer- Leading question - Legal - Legal code - Legal history - Legal positivism - Legal technicality - Legislation - Libel - Limitations clause, Constitition of Canada - Line of Succession - List of basic criminal justice topics - List of international public law topics - List of items for which possession is restricted - List of Latin phrases - List of Supreme Court of Canada cases - List of Judicial Committees of the Privy Council & House of Lords cases - List of Uniform Acts (United States) - List of United States Federal Legislation - List of United States Supreme Court cases - Litigant - Lord Denning - Lübeck law

M

Magdeburg law - Magdeburg rights - Malicious prosecution - Mandamus - Martial law - Maxims of equity - Matrimonial regime - Mediation - Military law - Misdemeanor - Mistake - Monarch - Morality (law)

N

Name change - Napoleonic Code - Negligence - Non-disclosure agreement - Non-profit organization - Not-for-profit corporation - Notwithstanding Clause, Constitution of Canada Notary public

O

Obscenity - Oral law - Obligations - Override power, Constitution of Canada

P

Partnership - Patent - Paternity - Patrimony - Patrimony of affectation - Penal law - Perjury - Philosophy of law - Personal property - Political science - Power of attorney - Practice of law - Praemunire - Preemption of State and Local Laws - Prerogative writ - Private international law - Private law - Privy Council - Probation - Procedural law - Property law - Prostitution - Public domain - Public property

Q

Quasi-delict -

R

Real property - Redirect examination - Regulation - Religious law - Res ipsa loquitur - Resolution of disputes - Restraining order - Reversible error - Rights - Right-of-way - Roman law - Rulemaking - Rules of evidence

S

Sanctions - Security for costs School of law - Secret tribunal - Self-defence - Sharia (Islamic law) - Slander - Social control - Socialist law - Solicitor - Sovereignty - Standing (law) - Stare decisis - Star Chamber - Statute - Statute of frauds - Statute of limitations - Statutory law - Statutory rape - Subpoena - Summons- Supreme Court

T

Tax law - Testimony - Torts - Trademark - Trade secret - Treason - Trespass - Trial by jury - Trial de novo - Trust - Trusts and Estates

U

Uniform Commercial Code - United States Constitution - United States constitutional law - United States district court - United States federal judicial districts - United States Office of the Independent Counsel - Universal Declaration of Human Rights

V

Visitation

W

War crime - Weimar constitution - West American Digest System - Will (law) - Witness - Writ - Writ of Certiorari - Writ of Habeas Corpus - Writ of mandamus

X

Y

Z