All Statutory Legislation is based on Contracts and are also referred to as ‘Acts’. You might be interested to note the definition of an Act according to Black’s Law Dictionary: 'act in the law' “ An Act that is intended to create, transfer, or extinguish a right and that is effective in law for that purpose; the exercise of a legal power. ”
'act of the law' “ The creation, extinction, or transfer of a right by the operation of the law itself, without any consent on the part of the persons involved. ”
Common Law
Common Law can be very easily understood by the tenet‘do unto others as you would have them do unto you’. In basic terms: The Rights of one Man end where another’s begins. Common law
includes crimes such as bodily harm, theft, assault, cause of loss or injury and murder. This is why you see murder referred to as ‘Un-Lawful Killing’ and not‘Illegal Killing’.
