Statutory and Case Law Islamic and Secular Law

It is essential in many cases to take account of a system of foreign law and to determine the rights and liabilities of the parties on that basis. Ignorance of law is no excuse and everyone is supposed to know the law of the land.

c. Conventional Law

Conventional Law has its source in the agreement of those who are subject to it. Agreement is law for those who make it. Examples of conventional law are the rules of a club or cooperative society. Some other examples of conventional law are the articles of association of a company, articles of partnership etc.

d. Autonomic Law

By autonomic law is meant that species of law which has its source in various forms of subordinate legislative authority possessed by private person and bodies of persons. A railway company make bye laws for regulating its traffic.

3. International Law

 

International Law is a kind of conventional law. As a special law, it refers to that portion of the law which regulates the practice of the capture of ships and cargoes at sea in times of war. International law requires that all states desiring to exercise the right of capture must establish and maintain within their territories what are known as Prize Courts. 

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

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