legal acts
Binding official conduct
Legal acts are formal actions that create, modify, or extinguish rights and obligations under the law.
The term encompasses a broad range of official conduct, from signing contracts and executing wills to passing legislation and issuing court judgments.
In civil law systems especially, legal acts are distinguished from mere facts by their intentional, legally significant character.
The transfer of property required several legal acts, including notarization and registration.
- statuteEnacted written rule
- prosecutionPursuing legal charges
- judgmentReasoned decision-making capacity
- jury verdictDeliberating body's formal decision
- litigationLegal dispute process
regulation · filing · agreement · binding contract · arbitration · codification · ruling · ordinance · mediation · covenant · notarized document · power of attorney · injunction · cease and desist · permit · directive · penalty · indictment
legal actsnatural phenomena
Occurrences without human cause
occurrences · accidents · happenstance · force majeure · circumstances
legal actsunlawful acts
Prohibited conduct
criminal acts · wrongful acts · contraventions · violations · offenses
legal actsinformal agreements
Unwritten mutual understandings
social customs · gentlemen's agreements · moral obligations · customary practices · handshake deals
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