rought to America by the colonist. Common law is sometimes called the "unwritten law" to distinguish it from legislative acts and administrative-agency regulations, which are written documents. Instead, common law is established through custom and the precepts set in court room proceedings. Regardless of its source, law can also be classified as either public or private. Private law concerns itself with relationships between individuals, between an individual and a business, or between two businesses. Public law concerns itself with the relationships between the government and individual citizens.
  Public Law is the law pertaining to the public as a whole, and may be divided into tree general classes. (1) Constitutional Law concerns itself with the powers to the federal and state government, which are exercised through legislation and executive orders. The extent of the powers of Congress and state legislatures to pass laws and of the executives of the federal government and states to issue orders involves questions of constitutional law. (2) Administrative Law is concerned with officials, boards, and commissions created by legislative enactment for the purpose of carrying out legislative functions. (3) Criminal Law consists of statutes and general maxims which forbid certain conduct as detrimental to the welfare of the state and which provide punishment therefore.
  Private Law is all that body of law, which pertains to the relationships between individuals

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