Practice question · Match the pairs
Match each term to what it names.
- Objective right
- Subjective right
- Ius
- Legal realism
- The body of norms in force in a community
- A protected claim one person holds against another
- The view that stresses what officials do over what the books declare
- The Latin root standing behind both senses of the Romance word for law
Hints
- Two of the four are the two senses of a single word.
- One entry names a school and one a Latin root.
Show the answer
- Objective right → The body of norms in force in a community
- Subjective right → A protected claim one person holds against another
- Ius → The Latin root standing behind both senses of the Romance word for law
- Legal realism → The view that stresses what officials do over what the books declare
Why
The four sit on one line of descent. A single Latin root carries two senses into every Romance language, the two senses are still doing different jobs, and a whole school of the twentieth century argued that lawyers had been reading the first of them far too literally.
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