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Criminal law is a complex system of laws and rules that define criminal acts, set punishments, and outline the rules guiding the process from investigation and arrest to sentencing and parole.

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Criminal law is a complex system of laws and rules that define criminal acts, set punishments, and outline the rules guiding the process from investigation and arrest to sentencing and parole.

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The system of law is concerned with private relations between members of a community rather than criminal, military, or religious affairs.

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The system of law is concerned with private relations between members of a community rather than criminal, military, or religious affairs.

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Felony
is a serious crime punishable by death or term of imprisonment in a state or federal prison for at least one year and a possible fine.

Misdemeanor
is a lesser crime punishable by local jail time of not more than one year and/or a possible fine.

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1. To provide a governmental structure and legislative procedures; constitutional law.

2. To provide public services and to raise taxes to pay for them; administrative and revenue law.

3. To regulate and promote the economy; administrative, civil and criminal law are all involved.

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4. To promote public order and preserve national security: criminal law.

5. To give individual members personal rights and duties in relation to others and to enable personal enforcement of these rights: the civil law. Civil law duties may arise through an agreement between the parties (the law of contract) or be imposed directly (the law of tort).

6. To give legal validity to approved relationships and transactions between members of the society: this involves the law of contract, the law of property and succession, company and partnership law, and family law.

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Homicide / Murder
The unlawful premeditated killing of one human being by another.

Assault
The crime of trying or threatening to hurt someone physically.

Theft
The wrongful taking and carrying away of the personal goods or property of another; larceny.

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Family disputes such as divorce, dissolution of civil partnerships, children’s issues and child arrangements.

Personal injury cases, such as road traffic accidents, medical and clinical negligence and slips, trips and falls.

Breach of contract or promise, such as cases where money owed is unpaid or a contract hasn’t been honored.

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Civil litigation usually involves some type of compensation for injuries or damages as well as the disposition of property and other disputes.

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A guilty defendant is punished by incarceration and/or fines, or in exceptional cases, the death penalty. Crimes are divided into two broad classes: Felonies and Misdemeanors.

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