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family law, body of law regulating family relationships, including marriage and divorce, the treatment of children, and related economic matters.
Family law. Family law varies from culture to culture, but in its broadest application it defines the legal relationships among family members as well as the relationships between families and society
Sharia, the fundamental religious concept of Islam—namely, its law. The religious law of Islam is seen as the expression of God’s command for Muslims and, in application, constitutes a system of duties that are incumbent upon all Muslims by virtue of their religious belief.
Property law, principles, policies, and rules by which disputes over property are to be resolved and by which property transactions may be structured. What distinguishes property law from other kinds of law is that property law deals with the relationships between and among members of a society
Family law - Community Property, Rights, Laws: A marital property system should try to balance two sets of interests: the interests of the spouses and the interests of third parties such as purchasers, creditors, and business partners.
common law, the body of customary law, based upon judicial decisions and embodied in reports of decided cases, that has been administered by the common-law courts of England since the Middle Ages.
Periodic table, in chemistry, the organized array of all the chemical elements in order of increasing atomic number. When the elements are thus arranged, there is a recurring pattern called the ‘periodic law’ in their properties, in which elements in the same column (group) have similar properties.
common law, Body of law based on custom and general principles and that, embodied in case law, serves as precedent or is applied to situations not covered by statute.
Nuclear family, in sociology and anthropology, a group of people who are united by ties of partnership and parenthood and consisting of a pair of adults and their socially recognized children. Typically, but not always, the adults in a nuclear family are married.
From the fragments it is apparent that numerous matters were treated, among them family law, delict (tort, or offense against the law), and legal procedure. A second type of written law consisted of the edicta (edicts), or proclamations issued by a superior magistrate ( praetor ) on judicial matters.