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Sources of law are the origins of laws, the binding rules that enable any state to govern its territory. The terminology was already used in Rome by Cicero as a metaphor referring to the "fountain" ("fons" in Latin) of law. Technically, anything that can create, change, or cancel any right or law is considered a source of law.
1 gru 2023 · Learn what law is, how it is created and enforced, and what roles it plays in society. Explore the different sources of law, such as statutory, common, constitutional, regulatory, and international law, and the legal principles and concepts that guide their interpretation and application.
19 mar 2018 · This article aims to clarify what is meant by “a source of law” argument. A source of law argument justifies an action by showing that it has as its legal basis the best interpretation of a rule, principle or value identified in a material source of law.
1 sty 2013 · Learn what sources of law are and how they are used by judges in different legal systems. This chapter explains the concept of sources of law and contrasts it with interpretive materials and criteria of legal validity.
8 sie 2024 · In the first section, it shows that four different concepts of sources of law can be found in the literature: sources (1) as law-creating (f)acts, (2) as norms, (3) as authoritative texts or materials, and (4) as causal factors; it then goes on to show that the first concept is more fundamental than the three others and should have priority over...
7 cze 2017 · This chapter of Introduction to Law uses a brief description of the development of Western law from the time of the Romans to the present day, to elucidate the sources of law, such as custom, legislation, judicial decisions and treaties.
This essay highlights several jurisprudential questions that surround the sources of law, and tries to show they relate to–and contribute to illuminate–many long-debated jurisprudential topics such as the concept of legal validity, the notion and the conditions of existence of a legal system, the problem of legal change, and the scope of ...
