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Legal order is a normative totality consisting of rules and principles. As such a totality, it has a double function. First, it gives citizens patterns of behaviour (primary norms), and second, the legal order gives the authorities the basis on which to solve the conflicts between the citizens, or between the citizens and the public power (secondary norms). Legal order is, to some extent, a pre-systemised unit that consists of a collection of statutes concerning legal phenomena, like contracts, obligations, companies, crimes and legal procedure – e.g. the Finnish Decedent’s Estate Act, which is divided into chapters, sections and articles.
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Aarnio, A. (2011). On the Systematisation. In: Essays on the Doctrinal Study of Law. Law and Philosophy Library, vol 96. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1655-1_20
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