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  2. Legal norm - Wikipedia

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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.Legal norms determine the rights and duties of individuals who are the subjects of legal relations within the governing jurisdiction at a given point in time.

  3. American Bar Association Model Rules of Professional Conduct

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    Although the MRPC generally is not binding law in and of itself, it is intended to be a model for state regulators of the legal profession (such as bar associations) to adopt, while leaving room for state-specific adaptations. [1] All fifty states and the District of Columbia have adopted legal ethics rules based at least in part on the MRPC ...

  4. Legal ethics - Wikipedia

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    An inter jurisdictional Legal Services Council was established in order to regulate the legal profession and its delivery of legal services. [7] This resulted in the creation of the Legal Profession Uniform Law Australian Solicitors' Conduct Rules 2015 [8] and the Legal Profession Uniform Conduct Barristers' Rules 2015. [9]

  5. Everything which is not forbidden is allowed - Wikipedia

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    In international law, the principle is known as the Lotus principle, after a collision of the S.S. Lotus in international waters. The Lotus case of 1926–1927 established the freedom of sovereign states to act as they wished, unless they chose to bind themselves by a voluntary agreement or there was an explicit restriction in international law ...

  6. American Bar Association Model Code of Professional ...

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    The Code consisted of Canons, Ethical Considerations, and Disciplinary Rules, of which the first two were aspirational and only the third was mandatory. This forced judges and lawyers to sort through a maze of Canons and Ethical Considerations just to understand the Disciplinary Rule that controlled a particular ethical issue.

  7. Ethical implications in contracts - Wikipedia

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    A legally binding contract is defined as an exchange of promises or an agreement between parties that the law will enforce, and there is an underlying presumption for commercial agreements that parties intend to be legally bound (Contracts 2007). In order to be a legally binding contract, most contracts must contain two elements:

  8. Universal law - Wikipedia

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    In law and ethics, universal law or universal principle refers to concepts of legal legitimacy actions, whereby those principles and rules for governing human beings' conduct which are most universal in their acceptability, their applicability, translation, and philosophical basis, are therefore considered to be most legitimate. [citation needed]

  9. Legal positivism - Wikipedia

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    In this sense, the term positivism is derived from Latin positus, the past participle of ponere, meaning "to place" or "to put". [citation needed] Legal positivism holds that laws are rules established (that is, "posited") by human beings, and that this act of positing the law makes it authoritative and binding. [1] [better source needed]