American law
Federal legal system
American law is the body of legal rules, statutes, and precedents governing the United States.
It encompasses federal law (Constitution, congressional acts, agency regulations) and the separate legal systems of fifty states.
She studied American law at Georgetown.
The phrase often distinguishes U.S. legal traditions from civil law systems or British common law, though American law derives heavily from the latter.
- felonySerious criminal offense
- amendmentChange to official text
- legislationOfficial enactment of statutes
- plaintiffCivil case initiator
- precedentPrior authoritative example
Bill of Rights · due process · search and seizure · real estate law · regulation · Congress · separation of powers · negligence · tort reform · common law · case law · Supreme Court · judicial review · Constitution · founding fathers · diplomatic immunity · statute · misdemeanor
- lawlaw, attorney, attorneys, court, courts
- common lawprecedent, binding precedent, case law, precedents, court rulings
- jurisprudencelegal theory, natural law, legal doctrine, legal reasoning, legal interpretation
American lawcivil law
Law governing private disputes
Napoleonic Code · Roman law · Sharia law · Islamic law · religious law
American lawIslamic law
Religious jurisprudence for Muslims
religious law · canon law · divine law · natural law · tribal law
American, America, Americans, laws, lawful, lawfully, unlawful, unlawfully, lawless