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Periodic Tables of Law

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Chemistry got there first, but the idea belongs to every discipline: complex things are built from simple things, and the simple things are countable.

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Every cause of action is a compound. Negligence is duty bonded to breach, breach to causation, causation to damages — remove any one atom and the molecule collapses, which is precisely what a demurrer is for.

 

These tables arrange the law's irreducible elements by family: thresholds that open the courthouse door, duties that make conduct matter, mental states that grade culpability, the causation chain that connects act to injury, the defenses that dissolve a claim, and the remedies that make winning worth the trouble.

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Click any element for its definition and leading California authority. Click a compound — a cause of action — and watch its constituent elements light up. Notice what chemistry teaches: strict liability sits in the mental-state column as the noble gas, the element defined by needing no bond at all.

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Four tables: general civil, Proposition 65, trusts and estates, and criminal law. The Prop 65 table gets the full treatment — including the exposure mathematics of section 25821, where the analysis lives and where most cases are won or lost.

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A study and teaching aid, not legal advice. Every element has isotopes — variant forms, exceptions, and splits of authority. Verify before you cite.