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Commercial law, also known as business law or corporate law, is the body of law that applies to the rights, relations, and conduct of persons and businesses engaged in commerce, merchandising, trade, and sales. It is often considered to be a branch of civil law and deals with issues of both private law and public law.

A contract is a voluntary arrangement between two or more parties that is enforceable by law as a binding legal agreement. Contract is a branch of the law of obligations in jurisdictions of the civil law tradition.

In law, conveyancing is the transfer of legal title of property from one person to another, or the granting of an encumbrance such as a mortgage or a lien. The term conveyancing may also be used in the context of the movement of bulk commodities or other products such as water, sewerage, electricity, or gas.

Criminal law is the body of law that relates to crime. It regulates social conduct and proscribes whatever is threatening, harmful, or otherwise endangering to the property, health, safety, and moral welfare of people. It includes the punishment of people who violate these laws.

A debt is when you owe money. An overdue debt could include not only where you haven’t made your payments for a personal loan from a bank or loan company, or a hire-purchase debt, but also if, for example, you haven’t paid one of the suppliers for your business or trade.

In this situation the law generally refers to you as the “debtor”, and the person or company to whom you owe the money is the “creditor”.

Labour law (also known as labor law or employment law) mediates the relationship between workers, employing entities, trade unions and the government. Collective labour law relates to the tripartite relationship between employee, employer and union. Individual labour law concerns employees’ rights at work and through the contract for work. Employment standards are social norms (in some cases also technical standards) for the minimum socially acceptable conditions under which employees or contractors are allowed to work.

An estate is the net worth of a person at any point in time alive or dead. It is the sum of a person’s assets – legal rights, interests and entitlements to property of any kind – less all liabilities at that time. The issue is of special legal significance on a question of bankruptcy and death of the person.

Family law (also called matrimonial law) is an area of the law that deals with family matters and domestic relations, including:

• dissolution of marriage;
• adoption;
• child abuse;
• child abduction (Hage Convention);
• property matters,
• alimony, child residence and access, child support (maintenance) and alimony awards;
• paternity testing;
• spousal maintenance;
• etc.

Immigration law refers to national government policies controlling the immigration and deportation of people, and other matters such as citizenship.

Mediation, as used in law, is a form of alternative dispute resolution (ADR), a way of resolving disputes between two or more parties with concrete effects. Typically, a third party, the mediator, assists the parties to negotiate a settlement.

Property law is the area of law that governs the various forms of ownership and tenancy in real property (land as distinct from personal or movable possessions) and in personal property, within the common law legal system.

This is an area of law that deal with a person suffering a loss or damages who claims compensation for the loss or damages suffered from a legal person. This includes but not limited to Personal injury matters and defamation.