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.
WHAT ARE THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE 1992 CONSTITUTION OF GHANA? • Largely written • Supreme • Rigid in terms of procedural amendments of entrenched provisions • Unitary • Separation of Powers and Checks and Balances • Presidential • Unicameral • Multiparty WHAT IS THE SUPREMACY OF A CONSTITUTION? This concept is more relevant in countries […]
WHAT IS THE CONSTITUTIONAL EFFECT OF A COUP D’ETAT/REVOLUTION? What is the Discontinuity Theory? It asserts that every illegal change in the constitution of a state is a revolution and that revolution overturns the entire legal order, replacing it with a new system (Hans Kelsen). Proponents however know that in almost all cases, the content