... words: "[...] a body of rules enforced by the power of the state." (Budge, 2004:488) What is then, a legal system? A legal system consists of many different laws, rules, statutes, codes and administrational bodies that together form a system. Its main goals are to maintain the social order of a country by thrusting laws upon its society, to control through an executive power that these rules are regarded and obeyed by the citizens and if this is not the case sanction the people who disregarded the rules through punishments ordered by courts or other administrational bodies. Furthermore, a legal system is in charge of setting up principles what should be done in certain areas of law to make actions enforceable before court and principles which force people to compensate those whom they cause damage to. Therefore a legal system could be described as an operating set of legal bodies, ...

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