Philosophy Law Flashcards
Order of sequence
It is any system of arrangement or consecutiveness, or any uniformity of a given phenomena
It is absolute compared to rule of action.
Point of nondeviation
It is a point in which all those concerned will cease and desist from certain activities or conduct which otherwise would result in loss or disadvantageous consequences, whether directly or indirectly.
Will-not category
There is a determination to abide with, or to avoid violation of, the rules and action and orders of sequence.
This force carries a connotation of future conformity, prospective agreement, or eventual compliance
The occasion or event when this determination is absent or lacking results in certain unpleasant consequences or damaging effects.
Cannot category
There is no other way except to obey or comply with a rule of action or an order of sequence no matter how much the desire exists in act otherwise.
There is a metapersonal drive to avoid deviation.
It is the category of non-deviation which gives the legal order the authority to punish lawbreakers.
Ought-not category
It is the obligatory form of non-deviation.
There seems to be a choice between action or inaction or between following a rule or refraining from following it.
Highest form of non-deviation
Divine Law (general sense)
It is the entire system of perfection which God in His infinite wisdom has imprinted in the whole of nature to govern its operations and where all that there in it is ran in perfect order.
Divine Law (strict sense)
It is the law of religious faith which concerns itself with the concepts of sin and salvation, or death and life, of the temporal and the spiritual.
Natural Law (Ancient Greek Sense)
It is the rational harmony and order of divergent things and events.
It is the unwritten law pervading and ruling the whole of nature without which the cosmos would be plunged into chaos.
Natural Law
It is the universal discipline of virtue impressed in the heart and mind of man to guide him in the exercise of his rights, in the performance of his obligations, in the observance of rules, and in the preservation of order and unity.
Law (general)
It is any rule of action or order of sequence from which any being whatsoever either will not, or cannot, or ought not to deviate.
Rule of action
It is any warrant, instruction, regulation, measure, or decision governing any act, conduct transaction, or proceeding, including their consequences.
It is relative compared to order of sequence.
All focalpoint of non deviation applies.
Moral Laws
It is a product of evolution
Moral norms
They are patterns of good an exemplary conduct which set the moral tone or feeling of the community.
They determine what conduct or behavior may or may not be followed or what acts may or may not be done.
They are applied by prescribing or imposing upon the members of the community certain definite patterns of behavior.
Social norms
It deals with objective conduct only.
It may even vary with each ethnic group in of a particular class of people.
e.g. practice of polygamy (acceptable in some parts of the PH especially by non Christians, but against social rules of the rest of the Filipino people - Christians)
Physical Law
It is a kind of non-jural law.
It is imperative (or fixed).
It is regular (because there is no break in their sequence or constancy once they are set into motion or operation.
Its norms can be reduced and worked out in mathematical formulas.
It operates inevitably, not depending on the human will.
e.g. laws of gravity
Law (in particular strict sense)
It refers to a statute.
It is a written enactment of the legislature of a State composed of definite provisions for definite situations or states of fact to which certain incentives and/or sanctions are attached as means of enforcement.
Legal incentive
It is a stimulus or motive developed through some extraneous influence operating on the individual members of society.
e.g. tax exemptions, tax reduction, government loans etc.
Legal sanctions
It is a coercive intervention or an eventual punishment annexed to a violation of a rule or regulation.
e.g. fines, imprisonment, banishment, loss or suspension etc
Law (in particular sense)
It is used loosely to refer to any rule, or regulation, or opinion given by a person learned in the law, an authorized official, or an agency of the State.
It refers to any contract, covenant or agreement.
Contract
It is legislative in character and so the contracting parties are said to be solemnly making law for themselves, provided it is not contrary to law, social interest or public policy of the State.
Law (in collective or aggregate sense)
It refers to the gross or bulk or specific or particular laws relating to one subject matter or obtaining in a given society.
e.g. Civil Law, Commercial Law, Remedial Law or Criminal Law (these laws refer to the totality of specific laws relating to one subject matter)
Substantive Law
It is the statutory, or written law, that defines rights and obligations.