Kinds of Laws

According to Purpose
1. Substantive law is the set of laws that governs how members of a society
are to behave. It is contrasted with procedural law, which is the set of
procedures for making, administering, and enforcing substantive law.
2. Adjective law – , or rules of court, comprises the rules by which a court
hears and determines what happens in civil, lawsuit, criminal or
administrative proceedings. Protecting certain rights
According to Scope
1.Public law - this law applies to all the state or to particular class of persons in the
state , with equal force and obligation (ex. Political law, criminal law, International
law)
2. Private law – this law relates to class of persons or things.(ex. Commercial Law,
Maritime law, Civil Law).
The preamble to the Philippine Constitution explains
that they are forming a government based on the
values. of truth, justice, freedom, love, equality, and
peace. It serves as a reminder to people in. a particular
country on how they have achieved their freedom and
what should they do.
THE 1987 CONSTITUTION OF THE REPUBLIC OF
THE PHILIPPINES PREAMBLE

We, the sovereign Filipino people, imploring

the aid of Almighty God, in order to build a just
and humane society, and establish a
Government that shall embody our ideals and
aspirations, promote the common good,
conserve and develop our patrimony, and
secure to ourselves and our posterity, the
blessings of independence and democracy
under the rule of law and a regime of truth,
justice, freedom, love, equality, and peace, do
ordain and promulgate this Constitution.
Political Law
• Election Law
• Voting Rights Law
• Campaign Finance Law
• Legislative and Executive Ethics Code

Criminal Law
• Murder
• Theft
• Robbery
• Rebellion
• Rape
International Law
• Law in Diplomatic and Consular
Relation
• International Trade Law
• Human Rights Law
• International Humanitarian Law

Commercial Law
• Consumer Protection
• Business Transaction
• Consumer protection
• Maintain Their reputation
Maritime Law
• Govern private international domestic nautical
matters
• Claim damages and certain benefits

Civil Law
• Family relation
• Libel
• Breach of Contract
• Negligence resulting in injury or death damage
to property
Election law is a branch of public law that relates
to the democratic processes, election of
representatives and office holders,
and referendums, through the regulation of
the electoral system, voting rights, ballot
access election management bodies, election
campaign, the division of the territory into electoral
zones, the procedures for the registration of
voters and candidacies, its financing and
propaganda, voting, counting of votes, scrutiny,
electoral disputes, electoral observation and all
contentious matters derived from them. It is a
discipline falling at the juncture of constitutional
law and political science, an involves "the politics
of law and the law of politics".