This document discusses key legal concepts such as remedy, common law, equity, judicial precedent, and custom. Remedy refers to legal means to recover or compensate for a right. Common law is based on custom and judicial decisions. Equity supplements law to ensure justice. Judicial precedent uses past rulings to guide future similar cases. Custom is unwritten law established by longstanding tradition.
This document discusses key legal concepts such as remedy, common law, equity, judicial precedent, and custom. Remedy refers to legal means to recover or compensate for a right. Common law is based on custom and judicial decisions. Equity supplements law to ensure justice. Judicial precedent uses past rulings to guide future similar cases. Custom is unwritten law established by longstanding tradition.
This document discusses key legal concepts such as remedy, common law, equity, judicial precedent, and custom. Remedy refers to legal means to recover or compensate for a right. Common law is based on custom and judicial decisions. Equity supplements law to ensure justice. Judicial precedent uses past rulings to guide future similar cases. Custom is unwritten law established by longstanding tradition.
recovery or compensation of a right is called remedy. 2. Common law is that body of law and legal theory that is based on custom and made by judicial decision. 3. Equity can be defined as moral justness, but also as a recourse of justice to correct or supplement law. 4. Judicial precedent is a judicial decision that serves as a rule for future determinations in similar case. 5.