Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Civil and Public law
To start with, civil law is very common to public law. As it is said in the article "Civil and public law", civil law concerns disputes among citizens within a country. Its main categories are: contracts, torts, trusts, probate and family law. Therefore the main points what describe public law are categories such as crimes, constructional law and international law. That means that public law concerns disputes between citizens ant the state, or between one state and another. Also we find other differences such as the standards of proof. As it is said in the article, criminal law have much higher standards of proof than a civil one. What is more criminal and civil procedures are different. All in all there are many differences between civil and public law, but both of them protect us from injustice.
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