Sushanta (student) 02 August 2010

Category of legal Judgments

Hello All,

I am a post-graduate student in Computer Sc. currently doing a project on Legal Judgments. Please help me by answering below mentioned questions :---

a :-- Is it correct to say that, all legal case falls under either Civil law or Criminal law ? If no then what are the other categories ?

b :-- Are Constitution law, Family law, Property law , Taxation sub-category of Civil law or they are independent from Civil and Criminal law ?

c :-- How a person can identify whether a case falls under CIVIL law, CRIMINAL law or Family law, Property law or Taxation ?

Thanks in advance.

~Sushanta

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jeny de souza (Advocate) 03 August 2010

Civil law would mean and include disputes between indivduals and the STATE WOULD NOT INTERFERE. Only the aggreived has to approch the court of law. Whereas, criminal law would mean that the act is against the State and State would take action against the erring individual. On this aspect civil and criminal laws are deferenciated. There are so many branches in each of these. Did I clarify u?