legal norm
collocation in Englishmeaningsoflegalandnorm
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legal
adjective
uk/ˈliː.ɡəl/us/ˈliː.ɡəl/
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norm
noun[C usually plural]
uk/nɔːm/us/nɔːrm/
an accepted standard or a way of behaving or doing things that most people ...
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(Definition oflegalandnormfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesoflegal norm
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External measure means using force in accordance with a broadly accepted social, moral, orlegalnorm.
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Rather than a mere legislative setback, it marked a successful challenge of the segregationist platform and the establishment of thelegalnormof racial equality.
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One way of understanding this suggestion would be that to identify a validlegalnormdoes not require us to know its meaning.
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On the one hand, by virtue of being an exclusionar y reason, alegalnormdisallows certain considerations as legitimate bases for decisions or actions.
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My account, on the other hand, stresses the role of the rule of recognition in determining the content of everylegalnorm.
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The gap is knowing the content of thelegalnorm, and it is exactly my point that knowing this requires evaluative considerations.
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Alegalnormcan partake of peremptoriness even if it disqualifies only some counter vailing concerns, rather than all counter vailing concerns, as reasons 11.
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But knowing that it is not important for liability requires identifying those features of the case that are important for identifying the applicablelegalnorm.
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Family law is often seen as a reflection of a country's culture, as much a cultural institution as alegalnorm.
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The suspect link in this chain of reasoning is the premise that the accomplishment of law's function entails the capacity of ever ylegalnormto guide conduct.
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In the relevant sense of the word, a person applies alegalnormwhen she is attempting to determine whether another person's conduct satisfies that norm. 35.
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And the "higher"legalnormin turn is legally valid only if it has been created in accordance with yet another, even "higher" legal norm that authorizes its enactment.
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The first one consists in simply pointing to the facts and trying to appeal to the judges' sense of justice rather than to any specificlegalnorm.
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On this construal, truth as a moral principle is the relevant, sufficient criterion of validity, and the non-profit principle is alegalnormvalid by this general criterion.
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The nature of thelegalnormis different from an order or a ban.
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It is absolutely the case that there are clashes between legal norms in different areas, even when it comes to the nature of thelegalnorm.
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Consequently, a morality orlegalnormdevelops in civil society which imposes "limits" for surplus-labour, in one form or another.
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Provision (a) contains a simple prohibition that constitutes alegalnorm, but not a norm in which a crime is created.
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