Encyclopedia of Law 08-PCDL-ENC

The course objective is to present the following questions:
General information
1.The notion of law
2.Law and moral rules
3. Rule of law - four characteristic features
4.Rule of law and legal rule
5.Legal relationship
6. Application of law
7. Interpretation of law and its varieties
8.Public and private law
9. Substantive and adjective law
10.Sources of law: the hierarchy of normative acts
Contitutional law
1.Contitutional law
2. Contitutional rules
3.Citizen freedom, rights and duties
4. President - election and competences
5. Cabinet - election and competences
6.Polish Parliament - election and competences
7.Legislation (statutory law)
8.Courts and tribunals
9.Organs of state control and law protection: NIK, RPO, KRRiT
Administrative law
1. Administration and administrative law
2.Organs of public administration
3. Relation under administrative law
4. Administrative act
5. Administrative procedure
6. Local competence and ratione materiae competence
7. Administrative decision
8. Legal remedies in administrative procedure
9. Judicial review over the administration
10. Territorial division of state
11.Organs of government administration
12.Organs of local government administration
13.Control
Criminal law
1.The notion and its origin
2.Crime and its stages
3.Prevention - general and particular
4. Crime and its stages
5.Felony and misdemeanor
6.Intentional and unintentional guilt
7. Circumstances excluding guilt (age, insanity, error)
8. Circumstances excluding the criminal responsibility (defence of necessity, state of emergency, superior order, consent of the victim, novelty risk)
9.Punishment
10.Types of punishment
11.Degree of punishment - statutory and judicial
12. Extraordinary mitigation or exacerbation of punishment
13. Conditional discontinuance of legal proceedings
14. Conditional stay of the carrying out of a sentence
15. Conditional release from serving the full sentence
16. Statute of limitation
17. Erasion of the entry in the register of convictions
18.Stages of penal proceedings
19.Terms: suspect, accused, convict, injured person, prosecutor, counsel for the defense.
20.Court of appeal
21. Instituting a trial de novo
Civil law
1.Civil law: the term and its origin
2.The system of civil law
3. Relation under civil law
4. Parties to a civil law relation
5. Legal capacity and capacity to undertake legal transactions
6. capacity to be a party in civil cases and capacity to sue
7.Legal capacity
8.Statutory agency and authority
9.Consumer and entrepreneur
10.Individualization of juridical person - name, surname, address
11. Declaration of death
12.Personal goods
13. Juridical person
14.Forms of legal action
15.Forms of contract
16.Properties: real properties and personal properties
17.Property law
18.Ownership
19.Ownership and possession
20.Other property laws
21.Obligation
22. Contractual liability
23. Liability in tort
24.Inheritance and succession
25. Intestate succession - statutory heirs
26.form and content of a will
27.Legitime (forced share)
European law
1.The notion of European law
2.EU institutions and their competences