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    Lady Justice symbolizes impartial justice through her sword, scales, and blindfold. Law is a system of rules enforced through social institutions that govern behavior. Laws can be created by legislatures, executives, and judicial precedent. Civil law systems codify laws while common law relies on precedent. Criminal law deals with conduct harmful to social order while civil law resolves disputes between individuals or organizations through legal remedies.

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    Lady Justice symbolizes impartial justice through her sword, scales, and blindfold. Law is a system of rules enforced through social institutions that govern behavior. Laws can be created by legislatures, executives, and judicial precedent. Civil law systems codify laws while common law relies on precedent. Criminal law deals with conduct harmful to social order while civil law resolves disputes between individuals or organizations through legal remedies.

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    Lady Justice symbolizes impartial justice through her sword, scales, and blindfold. Law is a system of rules enforced through social institutions that govern behavior. Laws can be created by legislatures, executives, and judicial precedent. Civil law systems codify laws while common law relies on precedent. Criminal law deals with conduct harmful to social order while civil law resolves disputes between individuals or organizations through legal remedies.

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    "Legal" and "Legal concept" redirect here. For other uses, see Legal (disambiguation).

    Lady Justice, a goddesssymbolising justice who bears a sword symbolising the coercive power of
    a tribunal ,scales representing an objective standard by which competing claims are weighed and a
    blindfold indicating that justice should be impartial and meted out objectively, without fear or favor and
    regardless of money, wealth, power or identity.[1]

    Law is a system of rules that are enforced through social institutions to govern behaviour.[2] Laws can
    be made by a collective legislature or by a single legislator, resulting in statutes, by the executive
    through decrees and regulations, or by judges through binding precedent, normally in common
    law jurisdictions. Private individuals can create legally binding contracts, including arbitration
    agreements that may elect to accept alternative arbitration to the normal court process. The
    formation of laws themselves may be influenced by a constitution, written or tacit, and
    the rights encoded therein. The law shapes politics, economics, history and societyin various ways
    and serves as a mediator of relations between people.
    A general distinction can be made between (a) civil law jurisdictions (including Catholic canon
    law and socialist law), in which the legislature or other central body codifies and consolidates their
    laws, and (b) common law systems, where judge-made precedent is accepted as binding law.
    Historically, religious laws played a significant role even in settling of secular matters, which is still
    the case in some religious communities, particularly Jewish, and some countries, particularly Islamic.
    Islamic Sharia law is the world's most widely used religious law.[3]
    The adjudication of the law is generally divided into two main areas referred to as (i) Criminal law
    and (ii) Civil law. Criminal law deals with conduct that is considered harmful to social order and in
    which the guilty party may be imprisoned or fined. Civil law (not to be confused with civil law
    jurisdictions above) deals with the resolution of lawsuits (disputes) between individuals or
    organizations. These resolutions seek to provide a legal remedy (often monetary damages) to the
    winning litigant. Under civil law, the following specialties, among others, exist: Contract law regulates
    everything from buying a bus ticket to trading on derivatives markets.

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