![]() ![]() Legislation as, on the one hand, the process of deliberate law-making or law-modifying by an expression of the will of a person or body recognized by a particular legal system as having power and authority validly to declare law, and as the product of the legislative process on the other, has long been the primary source of law in civil law countries. Walker, The Oxford Companion to Law, Oxford, 1980, p. Thus a particular precept such as an act of parliament or statute can be called “a law”( lex, loi, Gesetz, legge, ley, etc.) on the other hand “the law” in its much wider sense embraces the law or one of its branches in general (ius, droit, Recht, diritto, derecho, etc.), as well as its institutions and the persons who represent and administer the law. ![]() The concept “a law” and its plural, “laws” are used in this study in the sense of one or more particular and concrete instances of legal precepts, while “the law” signifies something more general and abstract.
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