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FUNCTIONS OF LAW
Law – what is this about?
Why do societies need
law?
Law – a modern concept?
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FUNCTIONS OF LAW
Norm of conduct = a directive targeted at a
specific addressee, ordering or preventing certain behaviour under specific or all circumstances
Norm of conduct establishes a model of behaviour
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FUNCTIONS OF LAW
Norm of law (legal norm) v. norm of conduct
(social norm)?
Legal norms = directives that organise, manage and control social life through the will of the public authorities (state)
Legal norms are:
created by the state
applied by the state
enforced by the authorities of the state (imperium)
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FUNCTIONS OF LAW
Law allows for the maintenance of the order and
harmony of the structures of social organisations that are established by the legal norms
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LAW AND OTHER NORMS
What determines a content of legal norms?
Morality? Religion?
Moral
standards are behavioural directives based on the category of „good” and „evil”
(understood differently in various cultures and religions)
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LAW AND MORAL NORMS
Law comes out of moral standards
Law applied in
a formal way and due to formal criteria
Mechanism of coersion in order to enforce the law
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PROPERTIES OF LAW
Law itself defines formal criteria of its applicability
Law
must be applied and observed in its entirety
Every entity must obey (observe) legal norms (even if in disaccordance with their content)
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PROPERTIES OF LAW
Durability
Stability (continuos change… coherent!)
Continuity
Standardisation
Predictibility
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CONTENT OF LAW / changes
Law is constantly broadening…
new legal institutions
„rebuilding” old institutions
… in order to adapt to new social, economic and technological circumstances
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OBJECTIVES OF LAW
Law should:
define the framework of activities of the
subjects of law
ensure order in social, business and political relationships
protect the fundamental values of social life
guarantee compensatory justice
establish effective procedures for the legal settlement of social disputes
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JUSTICE
Law must be JUST
Compensatory justice: compensation of good with the appropriate
and evil with the necessary evil (principle of rewards)
Distributive justice: based on the formula of the distribution of goods, while maintaining an identical treatment of people with the same key features
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PRINCIPLES OF LAW
Norms of high significance
Principles that have remained stable
over ages
Examples:
equality
presumption of innocence
pacta sunt servanda
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LEGAL NORM
Statement containing the directive of a public authority ordering its
addressees to behave under specific circumstances in a way that is specified in it
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LEGAL NORM
ADDRESSEE (who?)
CIRCUMSTANCES (when & where?)
CONDUCT (how?)
SANCTION (negative consequences)
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LEGAL NORM - example
§ 108. [German Civil Code]
(1) If the minor
concludes a contract without the necessary consent of his legal representative, the validity of the contract depends on the consent of the legal representative.
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LEGAL NORM - example
The minor may conclude a valid contract only
with the consent of the legal representative.
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LEGAL PROVISION
Sentence in the gramatical sense, clearly highlited in the legal
text and usually marked as an article or paragraph
A legal norm is usually shaped by several provisions
Legal doctrine & practice is expected to restore legal norms on the basis of provisions
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LEGAL PROVISION
General provisions (at the begining of texts) / specific (detailed)
provisions
§ 310. [Contract concerning future property] A contract whereby one party binds himself to assign his future property or a fractional part of his future property or to charge it with a usufruct, is void.
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REFERANCE LEGAL PROVISION
§ 173. [German civil code]
The provisions of §§
17D, 171(2) and 172(2) do not apply if the third party knows or should know of the termination of the agency at the time when the legal transaction is entered into.
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LEGAL DEFINITIONS
Article 4. [Polish competition act]
For the purpose of this Act:
5) "distribution agreements” shall mean agreements concluded between entrepreneurs acting at the different levels of the economic process aimed at purchase of products for further resale;
6) "products” shall mean goods as well as all forms of energy, securities and other property rights, services as well as construction works;
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ANNOUNCING THE LAW
Publication of legal acts – obligatory for universally binding
acts
Legal acts announced = authentic text
Specific official journals (Dziennik Ustaw)
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DEROGATIONS & AMENDMENTS
Derogation: repealing the whole act or individual provision
Amendment:
changes to the legal act (by one of provisions in a legal act or by a separate act)
Lots of amendments consolidated text (original act with the further amendments, not a new act)
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LEGAL RELATIONSHIPS AND FACTS
Legal relationships: all social relationships governed by legal
norms
Legal facts: facts that have consequences due to legal norms
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LEGAL INSTITUTIONS
Regulations refering to a certain aspect of social relationships
Examples:
Inheritance
Ownership
Marriage
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IGNORANTIA IURIS NOCET
„Ignorance of the law harms”
If the subjects of
law do not know their rights, they will obviously not exercise them
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DOMESTIC (NATIONAL) LAW
Internal law of a state
Obligatory: every citizen is subject
to the law of the state, regardless a place of residence
Territorial: even foreigners are subject to the law of the state of their temporary or permanent residence
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INTERNATIONAL LAW
used to impose duties on states and certain international institutions
sometimes incorporated into domestic legal systems (then directly govern rights and duties of citizens)
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PUBLIC LAW & PRIVATE LAW
Division that dates back to ancient Rome
„Public
law is the law which applies to the government of the Roman Empire; private law is the law which applies to the interests of the individuals”
Ulpian
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PRIVATE LAW
All the principles that regulate the autonomous and free activity
of society in the social and economic sphere (e.g. norms regarding the conclusion of agreements)
Parties equal to each other and before the law
(civil-law method of regulation – neither of the parties can unilaterally (authoritatively) change the legal situation of the other party)
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PRIVATE LAW
Iuris dispositivi (relatively valid regulations)
regulations only suggest suitable conduct,
but such conduct is not definitely imposed ir prohibited
Declaration of the will of the parties is binding and takes a priority over the provisions of such law
Authorities (courts) do not act ex officio, but on the initiative of the parties
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PRIVATE LAW
Civil substantive law (including commercial law – private law on
commercial activities)
Family and custodianship law
International private law
Some parts of labour law, maritime law, environmental law, agricultural law
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PUBLIC LAW
Public law regulates the system of public authorities and relations
between the state and society.
Purpose of public law: to protect collective, general & social interests, the interests of the state and other common interests (public interests)
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PUBLIC LAW
Parties to public law relations: public authorities & other subjects
of the law (natural & legal persons)
Public law creates subordination relations between entities (one of the party has a superior position to the other entity)
Inequality of parties - administrative law method (the state threatens the use of direct coercion (imprisonment or fine) in the event of a violation of legal obligations)
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PUBLIC LAW
Public law includes: constitutional law, administrative law, criminal law, financial
law, public law on commercial activities, criminal, civil and administrative procedures law; international public law
Some parts of labour law, maritime law, environmental law, agricultural law
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LINGUISTIC ASPECT OF LAW
Legal norm = lingustic statement that communicates
duties and/or rights to its addressee
Norms are not sentences in a logical sense (no attribution of truth or false!)
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LINGUISTIC ASPECT OF LAW
Legal norms:
written (legal acts, legal decisions, judgements,
contracts)
unwritten (mainly principles of law)
Bilinguism and multilinguism of some legal systems
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INTERPRETATION
Legal norms (lingustic statements)
open for interpretation
Lingustic interpretation
Logical interpretation
Doctrinal
interpretation
Purposive interpretation
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INTERPRETATION OF LEGAL REGULATIONS
Interpretation = a set of intepretation activities +
the outcome of these activities
The application of specific interpretation directives enables the reconstruction of the standard of conduct from the legal regulation in which it is expressed.
- abstract interpretation or in individual case
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INTERPRETATION OF LEGAL REGULATIONS
Interpretation performed by state authorities = formal interpretation
(usually binding)
Various types of interpretation distingusihed from the point of view of entities performing the interpretation
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INTERPRETATION OF LEGAL REGULATIONS
Authentic interpretation: performed by legislator (law-maker)
Legal interpretation: performed
by the authority to which the legislator granted competence for interpreting the law
Operational interpretation: performed by the authority applying the law (the court or administrative body)
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INTERPRETATION OF LEGAL REGULATIONS
Doctrinal interpretation: performed by legal science
Unofficial interpretation: performed
by the lawyers for the purposes of decision-making by various entities (a lawyer as an advisor at company)
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RULES OF INTERPRETATION
Contra legem interpretation prohibited
Lingustic interpretation - priority
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CONTEMPORARY LAW
Democratic states (states of law) v. totalitarian regimes (ostentious
law)
Cross-border legal systems
Globalised law
Law-making partly detached from states
New areas of law connected with technological development
Co-existence of different legal cultures
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STATE OF LAW
A state in which public authorities (legislative, executive, judicial
and control authorities) are organized in accordance with the law
competencies are clearly regulated
authorities do not exceed the limits of authorizations
citizens & their organizations have measures allowing for controlling and protecting their interests
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STATE OF LAW – main principles
Respect for:
human dignity & human rights
freedoms
(of ownership, of speech, of association)
tolerance
pluralism
justice & solidarity
non-discrimination & equality
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STATE OF LAW – main principles
Equality before the law
Equality in the
law
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LAW MAKING
unilateral official act of public authorities that are competent to
establish the law, resulting in a binding legal text
Law-making follows precisely defined procedure
- always preparatory phase (studies, draft acts)
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LAW MAKING - stages
Draft legal act
Review of the draft act by
a competent authority / amendments
Decision on the new legal act / voting
Signature
Announcement / publication
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LAW MAKING
Law is established by a single or collective legislative bodies
Broad category of bodies with law-making powers
- parliament (representative authorities): laws
- administrative (executive) bodies (central offices,
agencies): sub-laws
- other bodies (e.g. Warsaw Stock Exchange Joint-Stock
Market)
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LAW MAKING
Structure of law-making depends on the territorial structure of the
state (central / federal)
Law-making at central & local level (self-government; local administration)
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TYPES OF LEGAL ACTS
Differentiated legal force of acts
Acts of lesser legal
force used for implementing acts of greater legal force
No inconsistency between acts of lesser and greater legal force
Act of a greater legal force can repeal (derogate) acts with a lesser legal force
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HIERARCHY OF LEGAL ACTS
Constitution
Laws (Statutes)
Ratified international agreements
Regulations
Local legal
acts (Local law)
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CONSTITUTION
The highest rank in the hierarchy of legal acts
Issued by
the parliament or another specially appointed body (constituant assembly)
Special procedures of adopting constitutions
„Rigid” or „flexible” constitutions
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LAW (STATUTE)
Subordination of laws to the constitution
Consistency with the
axiology and principles expressed in the constitution
Autonomous acts (no special legal grounds required for passing them)
Unlimited scope of the content
Passed by the parliaments
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RATIFIED INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS
Ratification = expressing the will to be bound by
an agreement
Ratification by the president and parliament (referendum)
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SUB-LAWS
Executive acts: mainly regulations
Sub-laws must be based on a law
Laws
may amend and repeal sub-laws
Scope of a sub-law limited by a law
Certain range of matters may be regulated only by laws
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LOCAL LAW
Usually issued by local (self-governmental) institutions
Binding force limited to
a specific territory
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CODES
Disperesed regulations codification
comprehensive, relatively exhaustive, internally consistent regulation of a selected
(although extensive) area of social life
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DELEGATED LEGISLATION
Possibility to establish legal acts under different names having the
legal force of a law
Examples:
regulations with the force of a law
orders with the force of a law
Delegated powers entrusted to the government or the president (executives)
Clear limits of subject areas of such regulations
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COMMON LAW
In the common law system, the court makes
a
specific & individual decision on a particular case by reference to another similar specific case previously decided upon by a court.
The first decision is considered a precedent.
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COMMON LAW
- If the case is submitted to the court for
the 1st time &
if there has been no similar case resolved by the court
the court establishes a new norm
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COMMON LAW
The court distinguishes the unique and secondary features of the
cases examined (obiter dicta) AND
taking into account the essence of the case the court formulates the reasoning for the decision (ratio decidendi) and makes it a foundation of the judgement.
The (established) principle becomes the basis for settling all similar cases by courts of the same or lower position.
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COMMON LAW
Law-making and law-applying is not as clearly separated as in
the statutory law
The principle of the precedent is based on the assumption that similar cases should be settled in a similar manner
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COMMON LAW
Law-making precedents currently the most important in civil law (criminal
law, administrative law, financial law)
Case law coexists with statutory law
- Every law can repeal a precedent, but precedents cannot repeal a law
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COMMON LAW & STATUTORY LAW
Differences between the civil law and common
law systems are clearly disappearing today
The expansion of statutory law in the case law system (precedents are the sources of the law with lesser legal force than laws)
The role of judicial decisions in civil law systems and their participation in shaping the wording of the law is increasing
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VALIDITY OF THE LAW
Formal criteria of validity of legal regulations
fundamental
significance in the systems of statutory law
Validity = checking if a legal regulation was valid in a formal sense:
at the particular time
in a specific place
to a specific person.
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CONDITIONS OF VALIDITY
1. Act was established in the appropriate form and
mode by an authority.
2. Act was not formally withdrawn (derogated)
3. It is not contrary to any other legally valid norm (and if it is contrary, it has not lost its binding force under the accepted collision rules)
4. Act was officially published in the publication journal.
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COLLISION RULES
Lex inferior non derogat legi superiori
The lower norm in
the hierarchy does not derogate the higher norm in the hierarchy
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INTERPRETATION OF LEGAL REGULATIONS
Interpretation = a set of intepretation activities +
the outcome of these activities
The application of specific interpretation directives enables the reconstruction of the standard of conduct from the legal regulation in which it is expressed.
- abstract interpretation or in individual case
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INTERPRETATION OF LEGAL REGULATIONS
Interpretation performed by state authorities = formal interpretation
(usually binding)
Various types of interpretation distingusihed from the point of view of entities performing the interpretation
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INTERPRETATION OF LEGAL REGULATIONS
Authentic interpretation: performed by legislator (law-maker)
Legal interpretation: performed
by the authority to which the legislator granted competence for interpreting the law
Operational interpretation: performed by the authority applying the law (the court or administrative body)
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INTERPRETATION OF LEGAL REGULATIONS
Doctrinal interpretation: performed by legal science
Unofficial interpretation: performed
by the lawyers for the purposes of decision-making by various entities (a lawyer as an advisor at company)
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INTERPRETATION OF LEGAL REGULATIONS
Various types of interpretation according to the method
& scope
Linguistic interpretation
Systematic interpretation
Functional interpretation
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LINGUISTIC INTERPRETATION
What is checked?
whether the term has been defined by legal
definition
whether there is a binding interpretation decision of any authority
whether there is a uniform position of the doctrine & the meaning indicated in the literature can be accepted
If answers are negative – the meaning of a term must be
determined.
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SYSTEMATIC INTERPRETATION
What is checked?
the consistency in understanding the norm with other
norms in the legal system, considering the position of the norm in the legal system and its compliance with the principles of law
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LEGAL DISPUTES
Legal disputes settled, firstly, out of court by:
negotiations (without a
participation of the third party)
mediation and arbitration (alternative dispute resolution - ADR)
mediation: „it is better to reconcile than to judge”
arbitration: state courts award decisions with executory formulas (legal force of state court decision)
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LEGAL DISPUTES
Legal disputes settled by courts („judicial administration of justice”)
Legal disputes
settled in administrative proceedings
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COURTS
Courts:
settle cases and „administer justice”
resolve disputes related to the breach of
norms by specific entities
resolve conflicts related to private or public interests
sometimes only define the rights and duties of entities
.
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COURTS
Courts are organised in accordance with
the principle of instance:
Judgments and
decisions of courts of first instance can be appealed againts in appeal proceedings to the court of the second (higher) instance
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PRINCIPLE OF INSTANCE - Poland
District courts
Regional Courts
Courts of Appeal
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Extraordinary means of appeal
Cassation (Supreme Court)
Complaints to the European Court
of Human Rights
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Judgements & decisions by courts
Courts pronounce judgments and decisions on behalf
of the state
Judgments that cannot be appealed against are final and binding
Court proceedings – always contradictory
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„Free” Evaluation of Evidence
Judges evaluate the evidence on the basis
of regulations & the accepted principles for identyfing the facts in the science, in accordance with the principle of correct reasoning, recommendation of the state of knowledge and life experience
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Application of the law – stages
Definition of the actual state
it requires
the hearing of evidence
a court has a duty to identify the material truth (exceptionally: formal truth – legal presumptions)
Evidence:
personal (e.g. eyewitness) & material (e.g. original document)
direct or indirect (e.g. hearsay witness)
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Application of the law – stages
2. Determining legal grounds for the
decision
(legal inference and interpretation of the law)
3. Final (justified) decision
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SUBJECTS OF THE LAW
Natural person: a person from the moment
of birth until death (or recognised deceased)
Not every natural person has full public rights (e.g. voting rights) and capacity to conduct civil llaw transactions. This is decide upon by the domestic law.
Legal person: an independent subject of the law, which is established for a particular purpose and bears legal esponsibility for its activities.
Conditions for obtaining legal personality are defined by the domestic law.
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NATURAL PERSONS
Natural person: a citizen or a foreigner
Citizenship: a linkage between
a state and a
natural person
Citizenship determines a scope of rights & duties of the natural person with the respect to the state and vice versa.