Law Flashcards
Law
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
Law (Aristotle)
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
Law (Austin)
law is the command of the sovereign backed by threat or force
Law (Dicey)
law is the reflection of public opinion and can evolve with the society
Law (Keisen)
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
Law (Savigny)
Law is a matter of unconscious growth within the community and can only be understood in its historical perspective
Positive law
legal rules enacted by people in a political community or governing body
Dynamic rules
add new facts to the occurrence of an event
Counts-as rules
bring about that some things count in the law as something else as well
Fact-to-fact rules
attach the presence of one fact to the presence of some other fact
Positive morality
human laws which are disconnected from the right or wrong or the good or bad
Critical morality
raises questions about how people ought to behave
Public law
part of the law in which the government as such plays a role and deals with relationship between private individuals/organisations and public bodies
Private law
part of the law in which the government as such does not play a role and deals with mutual relations between citizens
Substantive law
rules that determine what people should do and that give people rights
