Law

Question 1

Law

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Rule made by a government, used to order the way in which society behaves
System of rules in a particular country, group, area of activity
Area of knowledge or work that involves studying or working with the law
A rule made by a parliament that states how people may and may not behave in society and in business, and that often orders particular punishments if they do not obey, or a system of such rules

Question 2

Law (Aristotle)

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Law is a sort of order and provides a comprehensive framework of rules and institutions through which a society is constituted. A law is by nature universal in form

Question 3

Law (Austin)

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law is the command of the sovereign backed by threat or force

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Law (Dicey)

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law is the reflection of public opinion and can evolve with the society

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Law (Keisen)

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law is a pyramid of norms which has its genesis from on ground norm. Law is a coercive order of human behaviour. Laws command a certain human behaviour by attaching a coercive act to the opposite behaviour

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Law (Savigny)

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Law is a matter of unconscious growth within the community and can only be understood in its historical perspective

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Positive law

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legal rules enacted by people in a political community or governing body

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Dynamic rules

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add new facts to the occurrence of an event

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Counts-as rules

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bring about that some things count in the law as something else as well

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Fact-to-fact rules

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attach the presence of one fact to the presence of some other fact

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Positive morality

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human laws which are disconnected from the right or wrong or the good or bad

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Critical morality

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raises questions about how people ought to behave

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Public law

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part of the law in which the government as such plays a role and deals with relationship between private individuals/organisations and public bodies

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Private law

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part of the law in which the government as such does not play a role and deals with mutual relations between citizens

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Substantive law

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rules that determine what people should do and that give people rights

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Procedural law

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provides means through which compliance with duties and respect for rights can be enforced

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Operative facts

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a legal rule is applicable to a case if the facts of the case satisfy the conditions of the rule, these are the operative facts

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Juridical acts

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act performed with the intention to bring about legal effects, where the law connects these legal effects to the act for the reason that they were intended

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Rights

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interests that are protected by law

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Codification

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organising different legal norms and texts in a book and unifying and categorising them which is very convenient for anyone to find the rules

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Precedents

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all judges have to follow the decision made previously

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Customary law

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unwritten rules that have been established based on traditional practices, values, and customs that have been considered lawful in a given society

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Binding

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has authority of a legal decision or principle

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Comparative Law

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comparison of the spirit or style of different legal systems, or of comparable legal institutions or of the solutions of comparable legal problems

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Legal systems

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Framework of legal principles, rules, procedures and institutions (both public and private) that exists in every particular country and is binding everyone within this country
Group of national legal systems which have common compelling features