5-legal system Flashcards
(18 cards)
What is legal system formed by?
It is formed by legal norms – rules of social behavior, established by the state
How do we divide branches of law?
Public and private law
What does private and public law form?
They form system of applicable law
What is international law?
International law, regulates relations between states and international organizations
What is national (domestic) law?
it is valid within a particular state, international law is superior to national law
What does public law to regulate?
It regulates relations between the state and its citizens it is based on principle of subordination
What branches of law belong to public law?
constitutional law, administrative law, criminal law, and financial law
what are the branches of private law?
Civil law, family law, and commercial law
what belongs in public – private law?
Labor law, and insurance law
what is a substantive law?
it is the set of laws that governs how members of a society should behave and defines rights and responsibilities and civil law, and crimes and punishments and criminal law
what is a procedural law?
It is set of procedures for making administrating and enforcing substantive law
Does civil law belong in public or private law?
private law
What is the basis for civil law and other sources for it?
The basis for civil law, or in the civil code, other sources of it are the Slovak constitution, and the code of civil procedure.
What is the civil code?
It characterizes and regulates legal acts
What are participants within civil law?
Natural person and legal entity
natural person is a real human being who has…
Legal capacity – capacity to have rights and obligations starting at birth and terminated upon death,
capacity for legal deeds capacity, which allows individual to create, change and cancel legal relations
Deprivation/limitation of capacity can be done only by court
Legal entity can be…
a company, a firm, an organization
Civil law includes…
Rights of ownership – these have the highest constitutional protection, it is an authorization of owner to hold/on property. Use it handle it according to one’s own discretion.
