GEOLOGY 002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Erga Omnes, Procedural Law, Public Law
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Itl: chapter 3 - basic concepts of law: fields of law. Public and private law: private law: deals with the mutual relations between citizens and the government as such does not play a role. Substantive and procedural law: substantive law: rules that give people rights and determine what they should do, procedural law: a way through which compliance with duties and respect for rights can be enforced. It provides rules for court procedures and specifies how judicial orders can be enforced. Functional fields of law: functional fields of law: relationship between the main areas of law: private and public law and/or substantive and procedural law. Such fields of law will consist mainly of the specific topic regulated by the field. Legal rules impose duties and attribute competences and rights to legal subjects. Legal persons: organizations that have received the status of being a legal subject.
