Legal Notes

Legal Notes are summaries of important legal concepts, principles, and rules. They provide a quick reference guide for lawyers, law students, and legal professionals to understand complex legal issues. Here are some Legal Notes on various topics:

– Contract Law: A contract is a legally binding agreement between two or more parties. Essential elements include offer, acceptance, consideration, intention to create legal relations, and capacity to contract.

– Tort Law: Tort is a civil wrong that causes harm or injury to another person. Key concepts include negligence, duty of care, breach, causation, and damages.

– Criminal Law: Criminal law deals with offenses against the state or society. Important concepts include mens rea (guilty mind), actus reus (guilty act), and strict liability.

– Family Law: Family law governs relationships between family members. Key concepts include marriage, divorce, child custody, child support, and spousal maintenance.

– Property Law: Property law deals with ownership and possession of property. Important concepts include real property, personal property, freehold, leasehold, and easements.

– Evidence Law: Evidence law governs the admissibility of evidence in court. Key concepts include relevance, reliability, hearsay, and privilege.

– Company Law: Company law regulates the incorporation, management, and winding up of companies. Important concepts include incorporation, shares, directors, and shareholders.

– Tax Law: Tax law governs the imposition and collection of taxes. Key concepts include income tax, capital gains tax, value-added tax, and tax deductions.

Citizenship

WHAT IS CITIZENSHIP? A citizen is a member of a country, either by birth, adoption, marriage, registration or naturalization. The citizenship act 2000, Act 591 A person born before 1957 is a citizen if born in Ghana and either parent or grandparent is a Ghanaian or born outside Ghana and either of parents is Ghanaian. […]

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Constitutionalism

WHAT IS CONSTITUTIONALISM? Constitutionalism is the appreciation of the constitution. The concept is also described as constitutional rule; constitutional government etc. Constitutional government means more according to the terms of the constitution. That is they are not the same according to the provisions of the constitution. It is also pointed out that constitutional democracy is

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