How To Find What You Need?

So many laws, so little time: How to find what you need out of so many laws

Firstly, if you find a topic which matches what you may be looking for, by all means, click on it.

If you cannot find what you want, such as e-commerce law (so far I only know of three cases reported in the courts - involving a hacker, a spam mailer and two Internet Service Providers), you can use your own common sense to work out the structure based on the principles inside our web pages. I did notice that a publication on e-commerce law devote a big portion of the writing on basic contract law.

Basically, most countries have a "Basic Law", which is called a Constitution. The Constitution will spell out what government officers must do for the public and the powers given to them to carry out these duties.

We call the laws surrounding the government officers public law. The other areas where people relate to each other (such as business or family relations) without government officers getting involved are called private law.

Of course, some situations would involve both public and private laws.. For instance, let's consider a private business deal to buy an existing restaurant business (which mostly concerns contract law, a private law area). However, a government officer must issue a licence to the new manager before the deal can be completed. The legal know-how regarding the fairness of licensing requirements is a public law. About 95 % of this deal is about how the buyer and seller will carry out the deal and the last 5% about the buyer getting a licence from the health authorities.More effort be spent on private law than public law?

Q: What about the areas not covered in your website?