REGNRSG 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Legal Certainty, Twelve Tables, Nationstates
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Chapter 1-sources of law: rules & law, substantial part of law, do not only specify how people should behave also contain definition of terms, create competencies etc, enforceable, created and maintained by the state, regulates the human conduct. Society is not ruled only by legal rules but also: religious, etiquette (eat w/ a knife and fork, associations/clubs, collective enforcement. Legal certainty: 1. ceartainty about the content of the law, easy to use positive law look up from the legislation therefore, parties usually can estimate the outcome, b/c postive law. Law often prefers the certainty of a clear solution rather than the uncertainty of the <> solution. Law-quick and lucid solution, not always the morally right one: 2. Certainty that the law will be enforceable: 3. Does not always have to be about the state. A bod of law that governs the relationship between states. Roman law was not about the states, was about the people roman.
