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Singapore Law:
The fact remains that Singapore Law is based on the English common Law system. The Singapore Law is on the whole known as the legal system of Singapore. Major areas of Singapore laws which particularly include the administrative law, contract law, equity and trust law, property law and tort law are largely judge made, though certain aspects have now been customized to some degree by statutes. However there is no denying the fact that other areas of Singapore law, such as criminal law, company law and family law are almost completely statutory in nature.
The matter of fact remains that apart from referring to relevant Singaporean cases, judges continue to refer to Singapore law where the issues are relevant to a traditional common Singapore law, or attract the understanding of Singaporean statutes based on English enactments or English statutes pertinent in Singapore. On the other hand where the constitution of Singapore law is concerned courts are generally seen as reluctant to take into consideration legal materials of foreign nature.
There are a number of Singapore laws such as the Internal Security Act which authorizes detention without trial in certain situations and the Societies Act which regulates the formation of associations that were enacted during British rule in Singapore. Modern Singapore was founded on 6 February 1819 by Sir Stamford Raffles. Sir Stamford Raffles was an officer of the British East India Company.
There are mainly three sources of Singapore Law such as legislation, judicial precedents and also custom. Legislation also known as the statutory law can be divided into statutes and subsidiary legislation. Subsidiary legislation which is also known as the delegated legislation or subordinate legislation, is written law made by ministers or other administrative agencies such as government departments and statutory boards which is under the authority of a statute.
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