What is the difference between English law and American law?
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English law is for the people in england
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No, they are not the same. The first one is grammatically incorrect & should not be used. The second is grammatically correct & is used in the context of the comparison e.g "Isn't there the same problem in the English government as in the American government, in regards to international trade?"
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In the United States, as well as other common law countries, it is not necessary that a policy be recorded in a national code.  Common law (case made law) has the force of law and may not be necessarily codified,
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Hi i am studying in the UK, When i went to a law weekend, when i was 18 i was told that it is best to study up until 18 in the UK as our system is better. Then to study law in the US apparently your universities are better than ours (but the guy was an American professor!)\n\nOn employment i have no comparison, but I'm looking for work experience in the UK and its HARD! The US has a stronger litigation background so there are potentially more jobs as a lawyer there, especially in private client matters (eg. divorce/accident compensation)\n\nHope that helps.
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English is really a language made up with all different languages put together and phrases. People from different places speak differently. It all depends on the environment. There is no REAL English, except for maybe in England (It technically was their language first(?)). Such as there is no such thing as a TRUE American. All Americans are, are immigrants and foreigners. About the cigarettes being called fags, someone just happened to use normal words and twist them. Think of all the 'terrible' words we have now a days and if you look them up in the dictionary, they all have different meanings than what we use them for.
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If you mean the actual law, it is constitutional law.  If you mean the best for understanding interpretation of those laws than try books on law from your local library.  Most are written for laymen rather than for lawyers.
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In the British judicial system, there are barristers (trial lawyers, who practice at "the bar", or within a courtroom) and solicitors, who do not do trial work, but give legal advice, prepare documents and forms, etc. In the US and Canada, there are only lawyers, who may do both or only one.
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"Common law" is the law that is developed by judges using precedent that can date back as far as 1066 in England.  There are "common law" torts such as assault, battery, false imprisonment, and negligence.\n"Statutory law" is law built from the legislatures (and to some extent, government agencies).  Sometimes statutory law replaces the common law (such as in workers' compensation, which supplants traditional negligence claims against employers).  Sometimes it supplements the common law (such as workplace discrimination and civil rights law -- Title VII).\nIn the same way, a body of "common law" modifies statutory law.  When Congress writes a statute that is ambiguous, it is up to the courts to interpret what the statute says.  On this side, however, Congress is always free to re-write the law to reverse a court's interpretation, or enact a new law if they don't like a court's interpretation of the common law.  The exception to this, of course, is if Congress writes an unconstitutional law (or if a state court writes a law that contravenes federal law) because the federal constitution, federal statutes, treaties, and the state constitutions would be supreme to a state law.
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Why would people in the United States know the laws in the UK?\nGo ask the police dept.
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Well one was written in english, the other in latin. That's kind of a difference.
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Unlike the answers above, there IS a difference between a lawyer and an attorney.\n\nAn attorney is defined as: one who is legally appointed to transact business on another's behalf; specifically : a legal agent qualified to act for suitors and defendants in legal proceedings\n\nA lawyer is defined as: one whose profession is to conduct lawsuits for clients or to advise as to legal rights and obligations in other matters.\n\nAlthough they LOOK similar, they are different.  It comes down to this:  a LAWYER is someone that went to law school and graduated.  An attorney is someone that has passed the bar exam in the jurisdiction that they practice in.
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American football wasn't developed in the UK, Rugby was developed in the UK. Rugby was introduced to the US, then the rules changed to differentiate American football from Rugby. All the changes, rules, and regulations were made in the US so that American football is a completely different sport than rugby. Therefore, American Football was loosely based on Rugby, but developed into it's own sport. \n\nAnd Einstein was German, not American.
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Canadians are part of the Commonwealth and so have common laws and morals with England and all the countries of the commonwealth. America just stands on there own even though there laws originated in England they have changed the laws and morals to prove they're better.
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In civil law countries, legislation is seen as the primary source of law. By default, courts thus base their judgments on the provisions of codes and statutes, from which solutions in particular cases are to be derived. Courts thus have to reason extensively on the basis of general rules and principles of the code, often drawing analogies from statutory provisions to fill lacunae and to achieve coherence. By contrast, in the common law system, cases are the primary source of law, while statutes are only seen as incursions into the common law and thus interpreted narrowly.
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lol you have a point, but different countries= different laws
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Military law.\n\nMaritime is shared between countries.\nAll government levels have criminal and civil laws.\n\nIf a state law and federal law conflict, the one with the most stringent law wins.
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Both forms of English come from the same place- British English. British English is what most of the world speaks if they use English (including India). American English is becoming a completley different language in its own. We keep adding so much slang and pronunciations that keep changing the language. The only real difference between American English and British English is that they have different words for things and their sentence order is different sometimes. In American English, our sentence order is correct if we put it in our forms or if we put it in the British form, which makes American English that much harder. For example. We would say "Go wake up my sister, or go wake my sister up" The British wuold say "Go knock up my sister" which we would sometimes interpret as go get my sister pregnant. It all comes down to the wording. As far as Indian English, it is really British English, except that few Indians are able to speak with the accuracy of someone who was born in an English speaking country.