Curricula: Law (Civil)
Curricula: Law (Civil)
CIVIL LAW AND GOVERNMENT
Law is "a regulation in accordance with reason, promulgated by the head of a community for the sake of the common welfare " (St. Thomas I-II, xc, 4). A civil law may therefore be defined as a rule of civil action dictated by reason, the aim of which is the common good, having the authority of the supreme power in the State, and duly promulgated.
NOTE: This is not an article from the Catholic Encyclopedia. It is provided here for the benefit of those interested in pursuing additional studies in this area.
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I. LAW IN GENERAL
- Concept
- Obligation
- Sanction
- Promulgation
- Classification
- Law and Morality
II. NATURAL LAW
Natural law is the body of rules directive of human action, which reason itself teaches as founded in the nature of things and binding on all men.
- Essence
- Qualities
- Knowableness
- Foundation of civil law
- Duty
- Rights
- Subject of rights
- Justice
- Society
III. CIVIL AUTHORITY
- Origin
- Bentham's Theory
- Hobbes' Theory
- Rousseau's Theory
- Founded on Natural Law
- Limitations
- Bankruptcy
- Charitable Bequests
- Church Influence of Civil Law
- Education
- Masses, Bequests for
- Canada
- England
- United States
- State of New York - Remarks by the Court of Appeals
- Oaths, English Post-Reformation
- Penal laws
- Property, Ecclesiastical
- Religious freedom
- Seal of Confession
- Seminaries
- Sunday Observance
- Temperance Movement
- Censorship of Books
- Citation
- Civil Law introduced into England - by Theobald, Archbishop of Canterbury
CONTRACTS In English and American law a contract is an agreement between two or more parties, based upon sufficient consideration, by which one promises to do or not to do something he might otherwise legally do or refrain from doing.
IV. CORPORATIONS
V. CRIMINAL LAW
VI. DOMESTIC RELATIONS
- Adultery
- Alimentation
- Alimony
- Betrothal
- Divorce
- Domicile
- Dower
- Illegitimacy
- Marriage
- Marriage Age of Consent
PROPERTY
- Notion
- Kinds
- Private
- Accession
- Possession
- Prescription
- Donation
- Mortmain
- Trusts and Bequests
- Provisors, Statute of
- Prisons
- Protectories
- Punishment, Capital
- Vivisection
- Witchcraft
- Woman
VII. LEGAL SYSTEMS
- Brehon Laws
- Charlemagne's codification
- Common Law of England
- Magna Carta
- Feudalism
- Hammurabi's code
- International Law
- Italian Codes
- Roman Law
- Code of Justinian I
- Spanish code of Alfonso X
- as Legislation
- as Literature - Siete partidas
- Abduction
- Acts (Canonical)
- Adultery
- Interest
- Minority
- Partnership
- Corporate ownership - Mortmain (dead hand)
- Paternal Authority - Potestas Paterna
- Prescription
- Trusts and Bequests
Note: United States. In the articles dealing with the separate States of the Union will be found an account of the State's legislation on matters of Catholic concern: divorce; schools; church property; seal of confession, etc.
VIII. BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES
- Anstey
- Audisio
- Baldwin
- Barclay
- Bedard
- Bellasis
- Besoldus
- Bodin
- Bowyer
- Bracton
- Buckley
- Bude
- Burnett
- Buss
- Cavagnis
- Chichele
- Coudert
- Day
- Dumoulin
- Duponceau
- Ewing
- Fitzherbert
- Gaston
- Glanville
- Gravina
- von Haller
- Hawkins
- Hope-Scott
- Huffer
- Islip
- Kernan
- Thomas More, Blessed
- O'Conor
- O'Hagan
- Pagano
- Pithou
- Plowden
- Politi
- Pothier
- Reichensberger
- Ricardus Anglicus
- Robinson
- Rosate
- Rossi
- Russell
- Schlosser
- Shields
- Sullivan
- Theobald
- Thonissen
- Vitalini
- Walter
- White
- Worndle
- Zasius
