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General Law and Special Law

The whole body of law can be dividing into two parts: general law and special law. General Law consists of the general or the ordinary law of the land. Special law consists of the general or the ordinary of the land. Special law consists of certain other bodies of legal rules which are so special and exceptional in their nature, source or application that it is inconvenient to treated them as standing outside the general and ordinary law. General Law consists of those legal rules which are taken judicial notice of by the courts whenever there is any occasion for their application. Special law consists of the legal rules which courts will not recognize and apply them as a matter of course but which must be specially proved and brought to the notice of the courts by the parties interested in their recognition.
 
According to is meant the knowledge which any courts ex-officio, possesses and acts upon as contrasted with the knowledge which a court is bound to acquire on the strength of evidence produced for the purpose. For example, the court is presumed and bound to take judicial notice of the fact that there is monarchy is England and a republic in Pakistan.

the body of law that evolves from a constitution, setting out the fundamental principles according to which a state is governed and defining the relationship between the various branches of government within the state.

 

Hart, H. L. A., Raz, J., & Green, L. (2012). The concept of law: Oxford university press.

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