Welfareville - Notebook

Rules for the game of life

The complex social-political phenomenon defining a normative social practice purporting to guide human behaviour.

Historical basis
Common law
- Prima facie ("at first sight")
- mens rea ("the intending mind")
- Parens patriae ("parent of the nation")
- Res ipsa loquitur ("the thing itself speaks")
  - Fontaine v. British Columbia (Official Administrator), [1998] 1 S.C.R. 424 → tactical burden
- ab initio ("from the beginning")
- ex officio
- nolle prosequi
- Ex turpi causa non oritur actio
- Volenti non fit iniuria
- viva voce
- de minimis non curat lex ("the law does not care for small or trifling matters")
- vinculum iuris ("legal bond")
  - "He ceased to belong completely to himself."
International law
- Universal Declaration of Human Rights
The Commonwealth of Canada
- Public law
  - Administrative law
  - Constitutional law
  - Criminal law
- Private law
  - Civil law
Constitution of Canada
- Your Guide to the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
- If an illegal search produces fruit but no one is around to see the harvest, is it poisonous? What if it's exculpatory?
Criminal law
- Criminal Code
  - Parties to Offences
    - Section 21, Parties to offence
    - Section 22, Person counselling offence
    - Section 22.1, Offences of negligence - organizations
    - Section 22.2, Other offences - organizations
    - Section 23, Accessory after the fact
    - Section 24, Attempts
  - Defence of Person
    - Section 34, Defence - use or threat of force
  - Defence of Property
    - Section 35, Defence - property
  - Unlawful Assemblies and Riots
    - Section 63, Unlawful assembly
    - Section 64, Riot
    - Section 69, Neglect by peace officer
  - Forcible Entry and Detainer
    - Section 72.(1), Forcible entry
  - Corruption and Disobedience
    - Section 122, Breach of trust by public officer
    - Section 126, Disobeying a statute
    - Section 127, Disobeying order of court
    - Section 128, Miscontuct of officers executing process
    - Section 129, Offences relating to public or peace officer
  - Misleading Justice
    - Section 131, Perjury
    - Section 136, Witness giving contratictory evidence
    - Section 137, Fabricating evidence
    - Section 139, Obstructing justice
    - Section 140, Public mischief
    - Section 141, Compounding indictable offence
  - Offences Tending to Corrupt Morals
    - Section 172, Corrupting children
  - Disorderly Conduct
    - Section 173, Indecent acts
    - Section 174, Nudity
    - Section 175, Causing disturbance, indecent exhibition, loitering, etc.
    - Section 177, Trespassing at night
    - Section 178, Offensive volatile substance
  - Nuisances
    - Section 180, Common nuisance
    - Section 181, Spreading false news
      - R. v. Zundel, [1992] 2 S.C.R. 731
  - Duties Tending to Preservation of Life
    - Section 216, Duty of persons undertaking acts dangerous to life
    - Section 217, Duty of persons undertaking acts
    - Section 217.1, Duty of persons directing work
  - Criminal Negligence
    - Section 219, Criminal negligence
    - Section 220, Causing death by criminal negligence
    - Section 221, Causing bodily harm by criminal negligence
  - Suicide
    - Section 241, Counselling or aiding suicide
  - Bodily Harm and Acts and Omissions Causing Danger to the Person
    - Section 246, Overcoming resistance to commission of offence
  - Motor Vehicles, Vessels and Aircraft
    - Section 249, Dangerous operation of motor vehicles, vessels and aircraft
    - Section 264, Criminal harassment
  - Assaults
    - Section 264.1, Uttering threats
    - Section 265, Assault
    - Section 267, Assault with a weapon or causing bodily harm
    - Section 268, Aggravated assault
    - Section 269, Unlawfully causing bodily harm
    - Section 269.1, Torture
  - Kidnapping, Trafficking in Persons, Hostage Taking and Abduction
    - Section 279, Kidnapping
    - Section 279.(2), Forcible confinement
  - Defamatory Libel
  - Theft
    - Section 322, Theft
  - Offences Resembling Theft
  - Robbery and Extortion
  - Breaking and Entering
    - Section 348, Breaking and entering with intent, committing offence or breaking out
    - Section 349, Being unlawfully in dwelling-house
  - Breach of Contract, Intimidation and Discrimination Against Trade Unionists
    - Section 423, Intimidation
    - Section 423.1, Intimidation of a justice system participant or a journalist
  - Mischief
    - Section 430, Mischief
  - Other Interference with Property
    - Section 441, Occupant injuring building
    - Section 442, Interfering with boundary lines
  - Cattle and Other Animals
    - Section 445, Injuring or endangering other animals
  - Cruelty to Animals
    - Section 445.1, Causing unnecessary suffering
    - Section 446, Causing damage or injury
  - Attempts - Conspiracies - Accessories
    - Section 463, Attempts, Conspiracies
    - Section 464, Counselling offence that is not committed
    - Section 465, Conspiracy
- Duty of Care
  - R. v. Hundal, [1993] 1 SCR 867, 1993 CanLII 120 (SCC)
  - Section 86, Unsafe storage of a firearm
  - Section 219, Criminal Negligence
  - Section 249, Dangerous operation of a motor vehicle
- Wilful blindness
  - R. v. Briscoe, 2010 SCC 13, [2010] 1 S.C.R. 411
- Sentencing
  - Section 753, Application for finding that an offender is a dangerous offender
Civil law
If the devil have not in fee simple, with fine and recovery, he will never, I think, in the way of waste, attempt us again (IV.ii.197-99)
- Personal injury
  - Pecuniary loss
    - Special damages
    - General damages
  - Non-pecuniary loss
- Defamation
  - Grant v. Torstar Corp., [2009] 3 SCR 640, 2009 SCC 61 (CanLII)
- Infliction of emotional distress
- Duty of care
- Anton Piller Order
  - Celanese Canada Inc. v. Murray Demolition Corp.
Provincial law
- Provincial Offences Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. P.33
  - Provincial Offences Act R.R.O. 1990, REGULATION 950 PROCEEDINGS COMMENCED BY CERTIFICATE OF OFFENCE
- Municipal Act, 2001
- Association of Professional Engineers Ontario
  - This is going to be interesting...
    We are, we are, we are, we are, we are the engineers
    We can, we can, we can, we can demolish forty beers
    Drink rum, drink rum, drink rum all day, and come along with us
    'Cause we don't give a damn for any old man who don't give a damn for us!
  - Galloping Gertie's iron or stainless steel, bring your pinky rings - because it's time you pucker up your rosey lips and kiss the beaver's ass
Municipal law
- By-laws
  - Building
  - General
  - Zonning
- Mandated Services
- Police Services Board
- Planning
- Variances
- The City Engineer
- The City Solicitor
- Council
Freedom of Information
- Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada
  - Privacy Act (R.S.C., 1985, c. P-21)
- Information and Privacy Commissioner's Office

Rules for the game of life

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