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Contract Law
Contract law falls under the definition of private law where two individuals come together and agree upon an agreement, requiring acceptance from both parties, making it a bilateral agreement.
Mandatory Rules
Non-negotiable legal requirements that parties cannot alter through agreements, imposed by statute or law to protect public interest.
Default Rules
Legal principles that apply in the absence of contrary agreement by parties, can be overridden by parties, filling gaps in rights and obligations when terms are not fulfilled.
Distance Contract
A contract concluded between a trader and a consumer under an organized distance sales or service provisions scheme without physical presence, established at a physical distance from each other.
Trader and Consumer
In the EU directives, a consumer is any natural person acting outside their business, trade, or profession, while a trader is any natural or legal person acting on behalf of their business, trade, or profession.
Offer and Acceptance Model
Agreements exist when one party makes a valid offer and the other party accepts it, with parties expressing intentions to enter a legal relationship.
Right of Withdrawal
Process allowing a consumer to return a purchased good in a B2C contract, applicable to both goods and distance contracts, with mandatory rules for sellers to provide this right.
Non-Performance Remedies
Options available when a party breaches a contract, including asking for performance, claiming damages for breach, and terminating the contract.
Repair, Replacement, Termination
Remedies in cases of non-performance by a seller, where the buyer can choose between repair and replacement, with termination requiring a serious nature of non-performance.
Application of Contract Law
Ability to apply contract law rules to simple cases, identify non-performance cases, and analyze violations or compliance with contract terms.
Constitutional Law
Governs the fundamental principles and structures of government outlined in the national constitution. Its main function is to limit and control the power of the state and provide protection against the abuse of state power.
Public Law
Focuses on the authority placing regulations and laws on citizens without the need for their acceptance. It includes constitutional and administrative law.
Separation of Powers
The principle that there should be a strict separation of the legislative, executive, and judicial branches to prevent any one branch from accumulating too much power. It is supported by the checks and balances system.
Checks and Balances
A system where the organs of the legislative branches work between each other to ensure that no single branch accumulates too much power. It helps maintain a balance of power among the branches of government.
Administrative Law
Concerns the administration towards the individual and the execution of legislation through individual decisions. It focuses on how organs operate regarding constitutional principles and includes acts like prohibition, granting/authorization, and allocation of public benefits.
Specific law
Laws that are tailored to specific fields such as environmental law, tax law, migration law, and social security law, each with its own set of norms and regulations.
Administrative organs
Main bodies at national and local government levels including government, president, ministers, mayor, city council, aldermen/deputy mayors, responsible for public legal functions under both public and private law.
Attribution of competence
The granting of authority to administrative organs through legislation, including attribution of new powers and delegation of powers to other organs, with limitations through statutory, judicial, constitutional, and non-discretionary powers.
Hierarchy of norms
The order of importance of legal norms where higher norms prevail over lower ones, with the hierarchy typically following Constitution, International/EU law, Acts of Parliament, Government decrees, Ministerial decrees, Regional/provinces regulations, and Local ordinances.
General principles of administrative law
Fundamental principles guiding administrative actions including proportionality, prohibition of arbitrariness, equality, détournement de pouvoir, legal certainty, due care, and duty to motivate decisions.
Administrative enforcement
The application of rules through administrative organs with reparatory (e.g., withdrawal of permit) and punitive (e.g., administrative fines) sanctions, which can impact the balance of power between branches of government.
Court hierarchies
The organization of court systems including Supreme courts, Courts of appeal, and District courts, with divisions between civil, criminal, and administrative courts based on the types of legal disputes they handle.
Judicial review
The assessment by courts of the legality of actions by other branches of government, ensuring compliance with constitutional and treaty law, with the final decision often resting with the highest court within the jurisdiction.
Separation of powers
The division of governmental powers into legislative, executive, and judicial branches to prevent misuse of power, with judicial independence being crucial, and the concept of checks and balances ensuring branches work together within constitutional boundaries.
Monist
International law and domestic law are considered part of the uniform legal system. International law becomes part of domestic law by ratification. International treaties and agreements are directly applicable and enforceable in domestic courts.
Dualist
International law and domestic law are seen as separate legal systems. International law is not automatically part of domestic law upon ratification. International treaties and agreements do not have direct effect within a domestic legal system unless they are incorporated and transformed through domestic legislations.
Constitutional review
The process of courts examining constitutional law applied by legislators to assess if the government has complied with the laws of the constitution. It ensures government actions conform with the principles, procedures, and rights outlined in the constitution.
Abstract review
Process where courts assess the constitutionality of laws or regulations without a specific case before them. It provides advisory opinions or clarifications for legislators but is not binding as it does not resolve legal disputes.
Concrete review
Courts assess the constitutionality of laws and government actions within a specific legal case or controversy. The outcome is directly applied and enforced, resolving legal disputes.
Centralised constitutional review
Specialised constitutional court designated for executive jurisdiction of constitutional review. It interprets and applies constitutional provisions. Example:Germany.
Decentralised constitutional review
Authority for constitutional review dispersed among multiple courts within the legal system, including general jurisdiction courts. Promotes broader access to constitutional justice and judicial accountability. Example:The Netherlands, USA.