prelegal

prelegal

(priːˈliːɡəl)
adj
(Law) US of the period before the start of a law course
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This is true enough as far as it goes, but it is no more true than that a growing market economy sees the creation of a great deal of wealth to which no particular actor has a decisive claim in prelegal justice to own.
that there was a prelegal category of injuries." (25) On the other
The law cannot affect the breachers prelegal incentive structure--it cannot make the snow plower's emergency repairs less expensive, and it cannot make the buyer's alternative opportunity to see a concert more beneficial.
the future, the level of prelegal community and fundamental ethos that
For Gordon, the new critical historiography rejected this distinction between a prelegal social realm and a legal order somehow directed by these more "fundamental" social forces.
Such a theory posits that law should reflect "a prepolitical and prelegal conception of property," which derives not from the compromises of political bodies, the contingencies of history, or even calculations of economic utility, but instead from some deeper set of foundational premises.
No other law firm offers such a comprehensive service from prelegal collections to enforcement and Wright Hassall believes this new venture will fill a key opening in the market.
(31) The colorful world of pirates, whether viewed as illegal economic conduct or as prelegal commerce, illustrates that self-enforcement mechanisms can fit into several of these categories.
The American "prelegal notion of the family" inevitably subordinates women (p.
A democracy without a prelegal consensus finds itself in difficulties over legitimation.