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In all legal systems and different countries often categorize and name legal subject in many ways. Enough common is the difference between:

  • "Public law" topics, which relate closely to the state, including: constitutional, administrative and criminal law.
  • "Private law" subjects, including:  contract, tort, property.
  • In civil law systems, contract and tort fall under a common law of obligations and trusts law is dealt with under legislative regimes or international conventions.
  • International, constitutional and administrative law, criminal law, contract, tort, property law and trusts are regarded as the "traditional core subjects", though there are many further disciplines which might be of greater practical meaning.

There are some areas of the law that can correctly fall into more than one category.

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Criminal law

»  Criminal law

Criminal Law refers to any of different bodies of rules in diverse jurisdictions.
Family law

»  Family law

Family lawyer covers counting the legal relationships between family members.
Labor law

»  Labor law

Administrative rulings, and guides which address the legal rights of, and limits on, working people and their organizations.
Business law

»  Business law

It is a branch of civil law and deals both with issues of private law and public law.
Immigration law

»  Immigration law

It is a branch of law that covers U.S. citizenship, loss of citizenship, and the permission and removal of strangers.
Constitutional law

»  Constitutional law

Constitutional Law is interested with the system of government of the country.
International law

»  International law

Include to three things: public international law, private international law and the law of supranational organizations.
More areas

»  More areas of law

There are many other areas of law.


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