..what is the difference between custom and customary law?
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Custom is a way that societies operate - things are usually done in a certain way, so they continue to be done that way.\n\nSome societies have elevated certain customs to be enforceable by penal means - if you disobey those customs other members of society will punish you.  They are customary laws.\n\nCustomary law also has a particular meaning where indigenous or minority groups have a different pattern of laws to the majority or conquerors.  In that circumstance customary law may apply, but only to the indigenous inhabitants.  \n\nVarious legal systems give varying degrees of recognition to customary law.  In Australia, for example, courts sometimes acknowledge that a person may receive additional punishment under customary law and take that into account in deciding the severity of punishment.\n\nThe extent to which customary law should be taken into account is quite a difficult jurisprudential issue.
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The same as the difference between commerce and business, except online.\nhttp://www.google.com/search?q=define+commerce\nhttp://www.google.com/search?q=define+business
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If you have the patience read this:\n\nhttp://www.llmc.com/civil_law_3.htm
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Similar systems are used on other countries as well.\n\nWhere there a multiple possible interpretations, the court should choose the one that makes sense given other laws. This could be to avoid absurdity, or to avoid conflict with other higher laws.
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"They are really more like guidelines..."  I heard that once.  Common wisdom is morality is a personal choice, and cannot be obtained by imposing laws.  Laws and penalties can influence behavior by incentive and pushishments.
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lol you have a point, but different countries= different laws
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There is no difference between an act and a law. Acts of Congress are laws.
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These terms are generally really broad. People spend most of their lives trying to figure out the laww but never do. Even after the three/four years that people spend learning the law to pass the bar exam, they still continue learning about it. Laws are basically anything agreed to by custom, agreement, or authority. Rights are anything that the person is allowed to do (not against the law). Legal means anything not against the law in gneral. and lex I dunno.
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You need to clarify your question.  Civil law has several meanings.  It can mean the opposite of criminal law, or it can mean the opposite of English common law.  In neither of those settings, however, are there four widely known "assumptions", so your question lacks meaning in this form.  Provide more information or, if the question comes from a textbook, consult it for whatever assumptions it claims exist.  Try your question again with more detail and context, and I'll bet someone will get you an answer.
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It depends on whether it involves family members or not. Two totally different sets of laws and standards.
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Yeah ....there is no written law (religious or otherwise) for  either one. They are both worn as garments of personal choice.
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Great question indeed sor!\n\nThanks t' ye fer askin' and I'll try t'enlighten ye!\n\nIf you have a free Amazon account, you can  search each of the books below for the words "custom" or "folk" or "lore" or "folkways". You can read pages and page for free!\n\nFor example:\n\n"IT is a custom amongst the people, when throwing away water at night, to cry out in a loud voice, " Take care of the water"! \n\nEvery person who passes the spot where the body was found add a rock to the growing heap there...\n\n(first book)\n\nSlán leat! (goodbye!)
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Intrinsic proof is proof that is inherent in the object.  Extrinsic proof is an external value applied to an object.\n\nExample: Justice is considered intrinsically good because it's inherent property is morally right.  The rule of law, on the other hand, is extrensically good if it promotes justice and extrensically bad if it denies justice.  The rule of law itself is a neutral object that is affected by the value assigned to it.
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Law is designed to bring order out of chaos. Society cannot survive without laws. Just imagine if there were no laws and everyone did what they want, when they want. It would be anarchy. In the end vigilantism would rule. Still a form of law I guess, but not necessarily a preferred one. Law does not just punish, it also protects, both the innocent and the guilty.
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"Common law" is the law that is developed by judges using precedent that can date back as far as 1066 in England.  There are "common law" torts such as assault, battery, false imprisonment, and negligence.\n"Statutory law" is law built from the legislatures (and to some extent, government agencies).  Sometimes statutory law replaces the common law (such as in workers' compensation, which supplants traditional negligence claims against employers).  Sometimes it supplements the common law (such as workplace discrimination and civil rights law -- Title VII).\nIn the same way, a body of "common law" modifies statutory law.  When Congress writes a statute that is ambiguous, it is up to the courts to interpret what the statute says.  On this side, however, Congress is always free to re-write the law to reverse a court's interpretation, or enact a new law if they don't like a court's interpretation of the common law.  The exception to this, of course, is if Congress writes an unconstitutional law (or if a state court writes a law that contravenes federal law) because the federal constitution, federal statutes, treaties, and the state constitutions would be supreme to a state law.
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Both seek to decide what is right and wrong. Ethics is more of a personal opinion. Law is the collection of views of society members.
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Civil Law encompasses the issues of tort claims, money, probate, common law, divorces, family law and issues where law enforcement is not involved. Traffic accident claims, insurance issues and things that do not involve crimes. Civil actions do not usually involve jail. They involve settlements for stuff like personal injury, juvenile law, adoptions, divorces and the like. \n\nCriminal law involves the treatment of people who break the law and are victims of crimes. Robberies, murders, burglaries, and anything else you can go to jail for and be charged with are crimes and are under the jurisdiction of criminal law.