Excerpt from The Law Review and Quarterly Journal of British and Foreign Jurisprudence, 1845, Vol. 1 Nations approaches nearly to that which is inaccurately called the Law of Nature. The divisions of municipal law are now to be considered. It consists of two great branches, Rights and Remedies. Every right has a correlative wrong; that is, every right may be violated, and this Violation being an injury to the party having the right, he is entitled to be restored or indemnified for the breach; the law provides for his Obtaining restoration, or, if that be impossible, compensation. But another right exists on the part of the community, or rather of each of the members whereof it consists, - the right to prevent a repetition of the wrongful act, either by incapacitating the offender, that is, disabling or disinclining him to repeat his Offence or by so dealing with him as to disincline others who witness the treatment which he has received, from following his ex ample. This leads to another division of law into Civil and Criminal. Certain rights are by the law declared to be vested in individuals; to enforce them or to force a remedy for the breach of them, is the province of the Civil branch of law. Certain acts are by the law declared to be crimes; to punish them is the province of the Criminal law. Hence a third division, though of a subordinate nature law may either de clare What are men's rights, and what are crimes; or it may lay down the course to be taken by the individual who seeks redress for a violation of his rights, and by the state for punish ing those who have committed crimes. The one of these is Civil, the other Criminal Procedure. Hence a system of law must always consist of four branches Civil Law Criminal Law Civil Procedure Criminal Procedure: in other words Rights Crimes Actions Prosecutions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.