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The concern of this paper is to present a system of definitions for such legal notions as legal obligation and prohibition, explicit and implicit permission, de jure liberty, operability, de jure power, liability, disability, and immunity. The non-logical primitive notions are three: a certain technical notion of action; the notion of a set of rules directing a state-ofaffairs; the notion of a set of rules legislating that such-and-such be the case if certain conditions are met.
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Hohfeld, Wesley Newcomb, Fundamental Legal Conceptions, New Haven, 1919.
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© 1975 D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht-Holland
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Lamb, J.W. (1975). Some Definitions for the Theory of Rules. In: Lehrer, K. (eds) Analysis and Metaphysics. Philosophical Studies Series in Philosophy, vol 4. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-9098-8_15
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