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Review outline of General Law

Question 1: What is a legal norm? Analyze the structure of a legal norm. (Give illustrative examples)

a. Legal Norm:

- It is a general rule issued or recognized by the state and ensured for implementation, reflecting the will and interests of the working people, aimed at regulating social relations.

- Social legal norm is a legal norm.

- Legal norms are always associated with the state.

- Legal norms are applied multiple times in life with a mandatory nature.

b. Structure of a Legal Norm:

*Hypothetical Component:

- This is the component of the norm that stipulates the location, time, subject, circumstances, and situations that may occur in reality, and if they exist, actions must be taken according to the rules set by the norm.

- There are types of assumptions such as simple, complex assumptions, relatively determined assumptions, abstract assumptions, etc., due to the richness and complexity of real life.

- However, to ensure the strict determination of law, the assumption, regardless of its type, must be determined to the extent consistent with the nature of that type of assumption.

Example: “Anyone who sees another person in a life-threatening situation and does not help, despite having the conditions to do so, leading to the person's death” (Article 102 – Penal Code 1999) is the hypothetical component of the norm.

*Regulation:

- This is the central component of the legal norm because it is the conduct rule reflecting the state's will that everyone must obey when the conditions set by the assumption arise.

- In the above example, the regulation component “despite having the conditions, not helping” implies the obligation to rescue the person in distress.

- There are many classifications of the regulation component, and each classification is based on a certain criterion.

- Depending on their role in regulating social relations, there are regulations for adjustment, protection, definition; based on the level of determination of conduct rules, there are determined regulations, discretionary regulations; based on the complexity, they can be simple or complex; depending on the method of expressing content, there are two classification systems, etc. As the central component of the legal norm, this classification can apply to classifying legal norms in general.

*Sanction:

- Sanction is the component of the legal norm that indicates the measures the state will apply to subjects that do not perform or do not correctly perform the orders stated in the regulation component of the legal norm.

- There are many types of sanctions: Depending on the level of determination, there are determined sanctions, relatively determined sanctions, selective sanctions, depending on the nature of the measures applied, there can be punitive sanctions, legal restoration sanctions, or simple, complex sanctions.

In the above example, this component includes: “subject to warning, non-custodial reform up to two years or imprisonment from three months to two years”

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