Common Law

• Common Law

  Body of law that owes its authenticity and authority not to enactments by legislatures, but to judgement of courts recognising, over time, certain rules as rules of law.
• What do the rules of common law apply to?

  The rules of common law apply to government and to persons and their property are organised into certain categories depending upon the nature of the conduct and the relations to which they apply and give rise to what are known as common law causes of action.
• What are the three categories of common law? Define what they mean relative to common law.

  1. Common Law of Tort: Governs which harms to their persons and their property which give right to a right for remedy.
  2. Common Law of Contract: Governs which failed promises have simply to be forborne and which are legally significant and give rise to rights.
  3. Common Law of Property: Governs the relationships between persons as regards the resources which beings like us need to survive and flourish determines who may and may not use those resources and under what conditions.