Not to be confused with The Sources of English Law.
Sources of law are the origins of laws, the binding rules that enable any state to govern its territory.
The term "source of law" may sometimes refer to the sovereign or to the seat of power from which the law derives its validity.[1]
^"Sources of law" may also mean any premiss of a legal reasoning.Goltzberg, Stefan (2016). Les Sources du droit. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France. ISBN 2130748600.
There are three general sourcesof Singapore law: legislation, judicial precedents (case law), and custom. Legislation is divided into statutes and subsidiary...
Various sourcesof Islamic Laws are used by Islamic jurisprudence to elaborate the body of Islamic law. In Sunni Islam, the scriptural sourcesof traditional...
constitutional law. Legislation is seen as the primary sourceof French law. Unlike in common law jurisdictions, where a collection of cases and practices...
Information Sources in Law is a book. The first edition was edited by R G Logan and published by Butterworths in 1986. It is part of the series, which...
Legislation Natural law Outline oflaw Political science Pseudolaw Public interest law Social lawSourcesoflaw Translating "law" to other European languages...
secondary sourcesSources (website), a directory of expert contacts and media spokespersons Open source, a philosophy of dissemination of intellectual...
The Collection of Swiss LawSources (Sammlung Schweizerischer Rechtsquellen in German; Collection des sources du droit suisse in French; Collana Fonti...
The Sourcesof English Law (as it is sometimes known) is an essay written by the German historian Heinrich Brunner and translated by others. In 1909, it...
The lawof Italy is the system oflaw across the Italian Republic. The Italian legal system has a plurality ofsourcesof production. These are arranged...
federal law. Acts passed by the Parliament of Canada and by provincial legislatures are the primary sourcesoflaw in Canada. Sections 91 and 94A of the Constitution...
roots to a number of different historical sources. Together with English law and Northern Irish law, it is one of the three legal systems of the United Kingdom...
Japanese Civil Code Local Autonomy Law New (2006) Corporations Law Oda, Hiroshi (2009). "The SourcesofLaw". Japanese Law. Oxford University Press. pp. 26–52...
Canon law (from Ancient Greek: κανών, kanon, a 'straight measuring rod, ruler') is a set of ordinances and regulations made by ecclesiastical authority...
to codify pre-existing customary law. Customary law is a recognized sourceoflaw within jurisdictions of the civil law tradition, where it may be subordinate...
Philosophy oflaw is a branch of philosophy that examines the nature oflaw and law's relationship to other systems of norms, especially ethics and political...
A code oflaw, also called a law code or legal code, is a systematic collection of statutes. It is a type of legislation that purports to exhaustively...
Administrative law is a division oflaw governing the activities of executive branch agencies of government. Administrative law includes executive branch...
In law, common law (also known as judicial precedent, judge-made law, or case law) is the body oflaw created by judges and similar quasi-judicial tribunals...
form of delegated legislation) in UK parlance – or regulatory law (in US parlance). Case law, in common-law jurisdictions, is the set of decisions of adjudicatory...
would continue its capitalist system and way of life until 2047. The Basic Law also sets out the sourcesoflaw, the relationship between Hong Kong and the...
authority, in a given jurisdiction. The main primary sourcesoflaw include constitutions, case law, statutes, and regulations. Searching secondary authority...
system of Singapore is based on the English common law system. Major areas oflaw – particularly administrative law, contract law, equity and trust law, property...
Statutes at Large Volumes 1 through 18, 1789–1875, via Library of Congress Public Laws (PL) Current Congress only, via the U.S. Government Printing Office...
from case law or precedent, which is decided by courts, regulations issued by government agencies, and oral or customary law.[better source needed] Statutes...
of Saudi Arabia is based on Sharia, Islamic law derived from the Quran and the Sunnah (the traditions) of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. The sources of...
to the Quran and hadith, the classical theory of Sunni jurisprudence recognizes secondary sourcesoflaw: juristic consensus (ijmaʿ) and analogical reasoning...