Wrongdoing
A wrong or
Moral wrong is an underlying concept for legal wrong. Some moral wrongs are punishable by law, for example, rape or murder.[2] Other moral wrongs have nothing to do with law but are related to unethical behaviours.[3] On the other hand, some legal wrongs, such as many types of parking offences, could hardly be classified as moral wrongs.[2]
Legal wrong
A violation of law is any act (or, less commonly, failure to act) that fails to abide by existing
The law of England recognised the concept of a "wrong" before it recognised the distinction between civil wrongs (governed by civil law) and crimes (defined by criminal law), which distinction was developed during the thirteenth century.[4]
Civil law violations usually lead to civil penalties like fines, criminal offenses to more severe punishments.
The severity of the punishment should reflect the severity of the violation (
Other examples of violations of the law include:
- petty offenses that do not require jury trial. In common usage, "violations" are treated as synonymous with infractions
- Willful violation, in U.S. law, an act with intentional disregard for a regulation, statute, and policy
- Infringement, various violations of laws or rights, usually used in the context of intellectual property
- e.g. copyright violation
- e.g.
- Breach of contract
- Probation violation
- against traffic rules
- Moving violation, any violation of law committed by a driver while the vehicle is in motion
- Parking violation, parking a motor vehicle in a restricted place or an unauthorized manner
See also
- Error
- Evil
- Goodness and value theory
- Guilt (law)
- Illegalism
- Justice
- Moral rights
- Natural and legal rights
- Rights
References
- ^ "crime". Oxford English Dictionary Second Edition on CD-ROM. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2009.
- ^ ISBN 0198607563.
- S2CID 250326876.
- ^ O. Hood Phillips, A First Book of English Law, Sweet and Maxwell, 4th ed., 1960, pp. 207, 208, 213
- ^ "Violation of the Law and Punishment | Ísland.is".
- PMID 27802261.
- ^ "Crime - Classification of crimes".
Bibliography
- Willis, Hugh. Principles of the Law of Damages. The Keefe-Davidson Co.: St. Paul, 1910.