The legal system of Canada is pluralist: its foundations lie in the English common law system (inherited from its period as a colony of the British Empire)...
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The copyright law of Canada governs the legally enforceable rights to creative and artistic works under the laws of Canada. Canada passed its first colonial...
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law. A 1996 study showed that Canada was in the mid-range of firearm ownership when compared with eight other western nations. Nearly 22% of Canadian...
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Canadian corporate law concerns the operation of corporations in Canada, which can be established under either federal or provincial authority. Federal...
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of Canada (French: Constitution du Canada) is the supreme law in Canada. It outlines Canada's system of government and the civil and human rights of those...
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The criminal law of Canada is under the exclusive legislative jurisdiction of the Parliament of Canada. The power to enact criminal law is derived from...
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longer violate criminal law as of 17 October 2018. This legalization comes with regulation similar to that of alcohol in Canada, age restrictions, limiting...
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Reserve personnel." All citizens of Canada are classified as "Canadians" as defined by Canada's nationality laws. "Canadian" as an ethnic group has since...
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Canadian defamation law refers to defamation law as it stands in both common law and civil law jurisdictions in Canada. As with most Commonwealth jurisdictions...
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Canadian nationality law details the conditions by which a person is a national of Canada. The primary law governing these regulations is the Citizenship...
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Canadian tort law is composed of two parallel systems: a common law framework outside Québec and a civil law framework within Québec. Outside Québec, Canadian...
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The passage of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms in 1982 allowed for the provision of challenging the constitutionality of laws governing prostitution...
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Canadian constitutional law (French: droit constitutionnel du Canada) is the area of Canadian law relating to the interpretation and application of the...
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Canadian Aboriginal law is the body of law of Canada that concerns a variety of issues related to Indigenous peoples in Canada. Canadian Aboriginal Law...
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Law enforcement in Canada is the responsibility of police services, special constabularies, and civil law enforcement agencies, which are operated by...
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Canadian contract law is composed of two parallel systems: a common law framework outside Québec and a civil law framework within Québec. Outside Québec...
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Inheritance law in Canada is constitutionally a provincial matter. Therefore, the laws governing inheritance in Canada is legislated by each individual...
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Canadian privacy law is derived from the common law, statutes of the Parliament of Canada and the various provincial legislatures, and the Canadian Charter...
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monarchy of Canada is Canada's form of government embodied by the Canadian sovereign and head of state. It is one of the key components of Canadian sovereignty...
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Canadian property law, or property law in Canada, is the body of law concerning the rights of individuals over land, objects, and expression within Canada...
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Canadian trademark law provides protection to marks by statute under the Trademarks Act and also at common law. Trademark law provides protection for...
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Canadian immigration and refugee law concerns the area of law related to the admission of foreign nationals into Canada, their rights and responsibilities...
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number of law schools in Canada operate as a faculty or as an affiliated school to a Canadian public university. Twenty law schools offer common law schooling...
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Law enforcement in Canada is the responsibility of police services, special constabularies, and civil law enforcement agencies, which are operated by...
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Sentencing". Kruse Law Firm. Retrieved 3 February 2024. "C-15A (37-1) - LEGISinfo - Parliament of Canada". www.parl.ca. Parliament of Canada. Retrieved 3 February...
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provincial law that authorizes the appointment of a receiver or receiver-manager Commercial insolvency in Canada Consumer bankruptcy in Canada Bankruptcy...
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In Canada, homicide is the act of causing death to another person through any means, directly or indirectly. Homicide can either be culpable or non-culpable...
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This is a list of the largest Canada-based law firms by revenue in 2017. Gowling reported that its Canadian partnership, with 407 partners and about 650...
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The Natural Law Party of Canada (NLPC) was the Canadian branch of the international Natural Law Party founded in 1992 by a group of educators, business...
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The history of Canadian nationality law dates back over three centuries, and has evolved considerably over that time. During the early colonial period...
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