Congress, state legislatures, and local legislative bodies.  

Statutes and ordinances are enacted by

Much of the work of courts is interpreting what lawmakers meant when a law was passed and apply­ing that law to a set of facts

created by panels of experts and scholars and adopted at the option of each state’s legislature.

The Uniform Commercial Code (UCC)

assists parties involved in com­mercial transactions by helping to determine their intent and by providing for the enforcement of their agree­ment. 

consists of the rules, orders, and decisions of administrative agencies. At the federal level, the exec­utive branch can exert control over agencies through the president’s power to appoint federal officers. Just as federal statutes take precedence over conflicting state statutes, so federal agency regulations take precedence over conflicting state regulations.

limited to awarding payments of money or property as compensation.

a branch of unwritten law, which was founded in justice and fair dealing, and seeks to supply a fairer and more adequate remedy than a remedy at law

order specific performance, an injunction, or rescission of a contract

A court of equity can 

involves the applica­tion, in current cases, of principles applied in earlier cases with similar facts.