scholarly journals CONSTITUTIONAL FOUNDATIONS FOR THE COORDINATION OF RECEIPTED AND NATIONAL LITHUANIAN LAW IN 1918–1920

2021 ◽  
pp. 69-77
Author(s):  
Jevgenij Machovenko ◽  
Dovile Valanciene
Keyword(s):  
Legal System ◽  
Legal Tradition ◽  
Property Relations ◽  
Executive Authority ◽  
Legal Literature ◽  
Foreign Law ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Russian Empire ◽  
Restrictive Measures ◽  
Natural Expression

The research object of this study is the provisions of the Provisional Constitutions of 1918, 1919 and 1920 concerning the establishment of the Lithuanian legal system. The aim of the study was to determine what was the basis for the reception of foreign law and the particularism of the law, what law was recepted and what was the relationship between it and the newly created national law. The main methods used are systematic, teleological, historical, linguistic, and comparative. This article presents an original vision of recepted law and a critical assessment of the interwar Lithuanian governmental decision to completely eliminate recepted law. In the authors' opinion, law reception and particularism enshrined in the Provisional Constitutions met the expectations of the citizens, and the government’s ambition to completely eliminate recepted law in all areas of people’s activities in the intensive development of the national law was in line with the strategic interests of the state and society. Particularism was a natural expression of pluralism inherent in the Western legal tradition and had a great potential for the development of Lithuanian law, which was not exploited due to the negative appreciation of particularism and the attempt to eliminate it completely. Acts issued by the Russian authorities in 1914-1915 and by the German authorities in 1915-1918 restricted the rights of Lithuanian residents, severely restricted monetary and property relations, made it difficult to rebuild the country’s economy, providing for repressive or restrictive measures against the citizens of hostile states. The restored state of Lithuania endeavoured to establish peaceful relations with all states, including those with whom Russia and Germany were at war. Cancelling the law imposed by the Russian and German authorities during the war was a reasonable and useful decision of the Lithuanian State authorities. The interpretation of the constitutional provision «[laws] which existed before the war» as «which existed before August 1, 1914», common in the historical legal literature of Lithuania, is incorrect. The question what laws were recepted has to be addressed not by the date of the adoption o a certain act, but by its content – insofar it is linked or unrelated to the First World War. All acts by which the Russian Empire intervened or were preparing to intervene in this war shall be considered to be excluded from the legal system of the restored State of Lithuania in the sense of the constitutional norm «[laws] which existed before the war» and the general spirit of this Constitution. The system of constitutional control entrenched in the Provisional Constitutions, where a court or an executive authority verified the compliance of a recepted law with the Constitution before applying it is subject to criticism from the standpoint of contemporary legal science, but under the conditions of Lithuania of 1918-1920, it was flexible, fast, allowing citizens to raise the issue of the constitutionality of the law and present their arguments.

Towards a Transsystemic Study of the Ghana Legal System

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-50
Author(s):  
Poku Adusei
Keyword(s):  
Legal System ◽  
Academic Discipline ◽  
Common Law ◽  
Civil Law ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Legal Tradition ◽  
Legal Traditions ◽  
The Law ◽  
Cultural Dialogue

This article provides comprehensive insights into the study of the Ghana legal system as an academic discipline in the law faculties in Ghana. It urges the view that the study of the Ghana legal system, as an academic discipline, should be transsystemic. Transsystemic pedagogy consists in the introduction of ideas, structures and principles which may be drawn from different legal traditions such as civil law, common law, religion-based law, African law and socialist law traditions to influence the study of law. Transsystemia involves teaching law ‘across,’ ‘through,’ and ‘beyond’ disciplinary fixations associated with a particular legal system. It is a mode of scholarship that defies biased allegiance to one legal tradition in order to foster cross-cultural dialogue among legal traditions. It involves a study of law that re-directs focus from one concerned with ‘pure’ legal system to a discourse that is grounded on multiple legal traditions.

The Failure of The Remedy of Reduction in Israeli Law — Causes and Lessons

1989 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 469-505 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eyal Zamir
Keyword(s):  
Legal System ◽  
Future Development ◽  
Comparative Research ◽  
Civil Code ◽  
Private Law ◽  
Legal Tradition ◽  
Land Law ◽  
Legal Literature ◽  
Legal Concepts

The process of codifying Israeli private law began in the mid-1960's. Since then, numerous laws have been enacted, each devoted to a certain field or transaction (land law, pledges, sales, etc.). The idea was, and continues to be, that after the enactment of the separate laws is completed, they will be combined in order to create an integral, complete civil code. This stage of enactment is nearly finished, and at present a jurists' committee is considering changes and adjustments required in any of the laws in order to fit them together into one code. This method of legislation by stages has many disadvantages, which have been pointed out in the legal literature. However, there are also advantages. The new laws in the sphere of private law are not inspired by a single legal system or by any particular existing code; rather, they constitute an original, modern Israeli creation, based on comprehensive comparative research and implementation of new, original ideas. In the absence of an established Israeli legal tradition, and absent rooted legal concepts or terminology, the Israeli legislature must create a code which does not grow naturally out of an existing legal system. The code itself will constitute the basis for future development of the system.

The Effect of Foreign Law on the Law of Israel: Remnants of the Ottoman Period

1975 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 192-206 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Friedmann
Keyword(s):  
Legal System ◽  
Case Law ◽  
Legal Norm ◽  
Legal Systems ◽  
Historical Source ◽  
Foreign Law ◽  
Local Law ◽  
The Law

This series of articles is intended to deal with one aspect of the sources of Israel law, namely the influence of foreign legal systems and principles derived therefrom on Israel law and on the attempt in recent years to independent creation of local law.Foreign law constitutes on occasion an actual legal source for the law of Israel. This occurs when a local enactment refers to foreign law and makes it applicable in certain situations. In such case the foreign law which we are to apply constitutes an obligatory legal norm in Israel and is, in fact, part of the Israel legal system. In other cases foreign law influences the process of creation of local law but does not constitute a formal source of law in the Israel system. This happens, for example, when Israel case law relies for authority upon some rule established in an American decision (which is, of course, not binding in Israel) or when the Israel legislator is influenced by a principle of law derived from another legal system. We might say there that the foreign law is an historical source for the Israel rule.

Tracing the History of the Legal System in India

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Mahendra Pal Singh ◽  
Niraj Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Legal System ◽  
Legal History ◽  
Common Law ◽  
Legal Systems ◽  
Legal Tradition ◽  
Medieval Period ◽  
British Raj ◽  
Legal Traditions ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Law

Examination of Indian legal history illustrates the presence of multiple legal orders that coexisted in India through the ages. Moreover, certain ‘modern’ conceptions of law were present in similar forms in India before the medieval period, contrary to Western assumptions. Largely ignoring these legal traditions, the British attempted to re-give law and legal systems to the Indians. This was part of the larger project of ideologically justifying the presence of the British Raj in India. The British used India’s extant legal diversity to argue for the lack of a dominant legal tradition, leading to the introduction of British common law as the law of the land.

State Responsibility and the Primary-Secondary Rules Terminology – The Role of Language for an Understanding of the International Legal System

2009 ◽  
Vol 78 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ulf Linderfalk
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Legal System ◽  
State Responsibility ◽  
Judicial Decision ◽  
Judicial Decision Making ◽  
Present Essay ◽  
Legal Literature ◽  
International Legal System ◽  
The Law

AbstractIn the international legal literature, it is commonplace to talk about the law of state responsibility as secondary rules of law. The terminology emphasises that in some way or another the law of state responsibility is different from other rules of the international legal system – what international legal scholars refer to as primary rules of law. The present essay inquires into the soundness of this language. As argued, the primary-secondary rules terminology builds on two assumptions. First, it assumes that the law of state responsibility can be described as separate from the ordinary (or primary) rules of international law. Secondly, it assumes that the two classes of rules can be described as pertaining to different stages of the judicial decision-making process. As shown in this essay, neither assumption can be defended as correct.

A Jihadi-Salafi Legal Tradition? Debating Authority and Martyrdom

2020 ◽  
pp. 36-69
Author(s):  
Nathan S. French
Keyword(s):  
Legal Authority ◽  
Legal Tradition ◽  
Legal Literature ◽  
The Law ◽  
Muslim Communities

Jihadi-Salafi movements are responsible for infamous and sensational acts of violence. Often this leaves their legal discussions overlooked. This chapter argues that by focusing on the legal and theological texts produced by those whom Jihadi-Salafis identify as legal authorities—particularly the nonbinding genre of Islamic legal literature known as the fatwa—it is possible to identify the formation of a Jihadi-Salafi legal tradition possessing digital institutions and legal authorities to whom faithful adherents can turn for guidance. Using the recruitment and attempted attack of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the legal writings of Anwar al-ʿAwlaki, and the Minbar al-Tawhid wa-l-Jihad of Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi, the chapter explores the contemporary crisis of legal authority facing contemporary Muslim communities, generally, and how Jihadi-Salafis are attempting to answer that crisis through their agreements and disagreements on the interpretation and application of the law.

scholarly journals Intrusion of international law into the national legal system

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-57
Author(s):  
V. F. Anisimov ◽  
Yu. V. Truntsevskiy
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
International Law ◽  
Legal System ◽  
The State ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Legal Systems ◽  
Foreign Law ◽  
National Legal System ◽  
International Obligations ◽  
The Law

The subject of the research is the peculiarities of the implementation of international law in national legal systems, the law enforcement practice of the implementation of international legal obligations of the state, doctrinal approaches to the interaction of the norms of international and domestic law. The purpose of the article is to confirm or disprove the hypothesis that the limits, forms and methods of the ex-ante intrusion of international law into the national legal system are determined not only as a result of the agreed will of States, but also against such will, under the influence of the interests of individual States or their political blocs that occupy a dominant position in an international organization. Methodology. The authors use such general theoretical and specific scientific methods as comparative analysis, generalization, interpretation and classification as well as systemic analysis and formal logical methods. The main results. The forms and methods of intrusion of international law into the legal systems are diversified. International law is not limited to interstate relations. Global processes require the development of new scientific approaches to understanding the processes of intrusion of international law into the legal systems of States. These processes require the study of the forms and methods of the impact of international law and international institutions on the national legal order. States are sometimes forced to implement measures developed in the international implementation mechanism (due to the need for international financial assistance as well as the inability to single-handedly defeat internal corruption, create a favorable international image, etc.). The international legal invasion exist already ex – post through the decisions of international judicial bodies or the assertive recommendations of international organizations. Their demands are made not just to comply with international obligations, but to change national legislation. The implementation of the norms of international law in national legal systems should be carried out at the domestic level just as much as it is necessary to fulfill these international obligations. The law enforcement practice in the state is based solely on national principles of law, and it is unacceptable to comply with the requirements from the outside to change them from the point of view of the independence of the state. It is the exclusive right of each State to determine the content of acts of interpretation of international bodies in relation to the decisions and actions of specific States from the point of view of their national interests. We prove that every state has the important right to determine the limits of the invasion of international law in their national legal system: the contents of implementing legislation; the completeness of implementation of the decisions and recommendations of international bodies and courts; the recognition of the extraterritorial validity of foreign law and forms of its implementation. Conclusions. The fundamental principle of international law- pacta sunt servanda – is transforming into a practical imperative – national legislation must change. This is due to the recognition of the jurisdiction of international judicial bodies. This is due to the extraterritorial effect of foreign law; it is connected with the transnational character of the law of international integration entities. This is due to the inability of individual States to resist exponential corruption. The continuous nature of the intrusion of international law into national legal systems is reflected in the various methods of such interference. The article proves the importance of each state having the right to independently determine the limits of the intrusion of international law into their national legal system.

scholarly journals مصادر قانون بطور سند

2020 ◽  
Vol 37 (- 2) ◽  
pp. 1-27
Author(s):  
Dr. Habib ur Rehman Habib ◽  
Prof. Dr. Rashad Ahmad Saljoq
Keyword(s):  
Legal System ◽  
Islamic Law ◽  
Roman Law ◽  
Legal Systems ◽  
Legal Tradition ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
Basic Source ◽  
The Law ◽  
Western Law

Validity of the law depends on its derivation from legitimate sources. The term ‘source’ denotes the norm that validates a law. Western law is based on western legal tradition which is deeply rooted in Roman law and Bible. Statutes is one of the basic source of western law, however, constitution is superior source of western legal system. The sources of Islamic law, unlike to western legal system, are basically divided into primary and secondary sources. This study aims to compare the authority of sources of legal systems, Islam and western, and analyze the objections of orientalists on Islamic law and its sources.

scholarly journals Dochodzenie alimentów na podstawie art. 60 k.r.o. w razie właściwości prawa obcego do rozwiązania małżeństwa

2017 ◽  
pp. 123-153
Author(s):  
Jakub Pawliczak
Keyword(s):  
Legal System ◽  
Legal Issues ◽  
The Other ◽  
Complex Character ◽  
Conflict Of Laws ◽  
Foreign Law ◽  
The Law

The applicable rules on jurisdiction and conflict of laws do not preclude situations in which the law of one country governs dissolution of the marriage, while the law of the other is applicable to the alimony claims between the former spouses. These kinds of rules cause difficulties for courts resolving family disputes, if in a particular legal system the regulation on maintenance between formers spouses is closely linked to the rules governing dissolution of marriage. Further complications occur when the law governing the divorce does not provide for ruling on the matrimonial fault and the maintenance claims are governed by the law, under which, like in the case of article 60 of the Polish Family and Guardianship Code, the existence, extent or duration of the maintenance obligations between former spouses are dependent on the ruling on the fault. The principal aim of the article is to analyse legal issues related to claiming alimony on the basis of article 60 of the Polish Family and Guardianship Code, when the foreign law governs dissolution of the marriage. Due to the complex character of these issues international rules on jurisdiction and conflict of laws, as well as domestic rules of material and procedural character shall be analysed.

Penerapan Hukum Wakaf Uang di Indonesia Perspektif Legal System Theory

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
Masdar Masdar
Keyword(s):  
System Theory ◽  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Legal System ◽  
Legal Culture ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Law Enforcement Agencies ◽  
Muslim Society ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Government

Cash waqf in Indonesia has been long enough implemented based on some rules enacted by government and other rules defined by The Waqf Board of Indonesia (BWI). However, the implementation of cash waqf has not reached the level of success. Therefore, this article studies the application of cash waqf law in Indonesia according to Friedman’s legal system theory. The legal system theory of Friedman firstly looks at the substance of the law, which is the rules or regulations; and secondly it examines the structure of the law, encompassing the law enforcement agencies, such as judge, prosecutor, police and legal counselors. And lastly the theory examines the element of legal culture, which is a response from Muslim society. The first two examinations indicate that there is nothing to be a problem. But from the last examination there is a problem regarding the trust from Muslim society. From the legal culture point of view, the implementation of cash waqf by the government, which is performed by BWI, needs attracting society’s credentials in order to improve and maximize the performance of cash waqf in Indonesia.

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