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A legal norm is a binding rule or principle, or norm, that organisations of sovereign power promulgate and enforce in order to regulate social relations.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 39 relations: Coercion, Consequentialism, Courage, Criminal law, Cristina Bicchieri, Deontology, Derogation, Diplomatic immunity, Ex post facto law, Government, Intelligence, Jurisdiction, Justice, Kohlhammer Verlag, Law, Lawyer, Legal relationship, Legislation, List of national legal systems, Minority group, Moral, Norm (philosophy), Normativity, Official, Plan, Positivism, Punishment, Rights, Semantics, Social norm, Social relation, Soldier, Sovereignty, Temperament, Temperance (virtue), Tort, Utilitarianism, Virtue ethics, Wisdom.

  2. Administrative theory
  3. Jurisprudence

Coercion

Coercion involves compelling a party to act in an involuntary manner by the use of threats, including threats to use force against that party.

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Consequentialism

In moral philosophy, consequentialism is a class of normative, teleological ethical theories that holds that the consequences of one's conduct are the ultimate basis for judgement about the rightness or wrongness of that conduct.

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Courage

Courage (also called bravery, valour (British and Commonwealth English), or valor (American English)) is the choice and willingness to confront agony, pain, danger, uncertainty, or intimidation.

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Criminal law

Criminal law is the body of law that relates to crime.

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Cristina Bicchieri

Cristina Bicchieri (born 1950) is an Italian–American philosopher.

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Deontology

In moral philosophy, deontological ethics or deontology (from Greek: +) is the normative ethical theory that the morality of an action should be based on whether that action itself is right or wrong under a series of rules and principles, rather than based on the consequences of the action.

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Derogation

Derogation is a legal term of art, which allows for part or all of a provision in a legal measure to be applied differently, or not at all, in certain cases.

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Diplomatic immunity

Diplomatic immunity is a principle of international law by which certain foreign government officials are recognized as having legal immunity from the jurisdiction of another country.

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Ex post facto law

An ex post facto law is a law that retroactively changes the legal consequences (or status) of actions that were committed, or relationships that existed, before the enactment of the law.

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Government

A government is the system or group of people governing an organized community, generally a state.

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Intelligence

Intelligence has been defined in many ways: the capacity for abstraction, logic, understanding, self-awareness, learning, emotional knowledge, reasoning, planning, creativity, critical thinking, and problem-solving.

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Jurisdiction

Jurisdiction (from Latin juris 'law' + dictio 'speech' or 'declaration') is the legal term for the legal authority granted to a legal entity to enact justice.

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Justice

Justice, in its broadest sense, is the concept that individuals are to be treated in a manner that is equitable and fair. Legal norm and Justice are philosophy of law.

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Law

Law is a set of rules that are created and are enforceable by social or governmental institutions to regulate behavior, with its precise definition a matter of longstanding debate.

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Lawyer

A lawyer is a person who practices law. Legal norm and lawyer are legal ethics.

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A legal relationship, jural relationship, or legal relation is a connection between two persons or other entities that is governed by law.

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Legislation

Legislation is the process or result of enrolling, enacting, or promulgating laws by a legislature, parliament, or analogous governing body.

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The contemporary national legal systems are generally based on one of four basic systems: civil law, common law, customary law, religious law or combinations of these.

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Minority group

The term "minority group" has different usages, depending on the context.

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Moral

A moral (from Latin morālis) is a message that is conveyed or a lesson to be learned from a story or event.

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Norm (philosophy)

Norms are concepts (sentences) of practical import, oriented to affecting an action, rather than conceptual abstractions that describe, explain, and express. Legal norm and Norm (philosophy) are philosophy of law.

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Normativity

Normative generally means relating to an evaluative standard. Legal norm and Normativity are philosophy of law.

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Official

An official is someone who holds an office (function or mandate, regardless of whether it carries an actual working space with it) in an organization or government and participates in the exercise of authority (either their own or that of their superior or employer, public or legally private).

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Plan

A plan is typically any diagram or list of steps with details of timing and resources, used to achieve an objective to do something.

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Positivism

Positivism is a philosophical school that holds that all genuine knowledge is either true by definition or positive—meaning ''a posteriori'' facts derived by reason and logic from sensory experience. Legal norm and Positivism are philosophy of law.

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Punishment

Punishment, commonly, is the imposition of an undesirable or unpleasant outcome upon a group or individual, meted out by an authority—in contexts ranging from child discipline to criminal law—as a response and deterrent to a particular action or behavior that is deemed undesirable or unacceptable.

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Rights

Rights are legal, social, or ethical principles of freedom or entitlement; that is, rights are the fundamental normative rules about what is allowed of people or owed to people according to some legal system, social convention, or ethical theory.

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Semantics

Semantics is the study of linguistic meaning.

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Social norms are shared standards of acceptable behavior by groups.

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A social relation is the fundamental unit of analysis within the social sciences, and describes any voluntary or involuntary interpersonal relationship between two or more individuals within and/or between groups.

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Soldier

A soldier is a person who is a member of an army.

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Sovereignty

Sovereignty can generally be defined as supreme authority.

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Temperament

In psychology, temperament broadly refers to consistent individual differences in behavior that are biologically based and are relatively independent of learning, system of values and attitudes.

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Temperance (virtue)

Temperance in its modern use is defined as moderation or voluntary self-restraint.

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Tort

A tort is a civil wrong that causes a claimant to suffer loss or harm, resulting in legal liability for the person who commits the tortious act.

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Utilitarianism

In ethical philosophy, utilitarianism is a family of normative ethical theories that prescribe actions that maximize happiness and well-being for the affected individuals.

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Virtue ethics

Virtue ethics (also aretaic ethics, from Greek ἀρετή) is an approach that treats virtue and character as the primary subjects of ethics, in contrast to other ethical systems that put consequences of voluntary acts, principles or rules of conduct, or obedience to divine authority in the primary role. Legal norm and virtue ethics are philosophy of law.

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Wisdom

Wisdom (sapience, sagacity) is the act of using one's depth and breadth of knowledge and experience to do good by oneself and others.

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See also

Administrative theory

Jurisprudence

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_norm

Also known as Legal norms.