legal act
Let an agent explain legal acts and their kinds and validity requirements, distinguish public and private acts, support finding and understanding specific acts at a general level, and route personal legal questions to professionals.
Research draft, second pass
A second pass drafted this model: the structure a model of this thing needs, and what is known about it in the world. The line under this one says how the second half was obtained - researched against sources, or recalled without web access, in which case nothing here was read anywhere and every claim is a lead to verify. Unreviewed either way.
Researched by: Claude
Bundle → Layer → Finding → Questions Filled
4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions
Understand What legal acts are.
Concept
Concept and kinds.
Concept
Concept.
- What is a legal act, and how do legislation, administrative acts, judicial acts and private acts differ? definition
- Which kind of act and which jurisdiction is meant? boundary
Validity
Validity.
Validity
Validity.
- What conditions of competence, form, procedure and content make a legal act valid, in general terms? provenance
- Which entry fits administrative law? action
Find Finding and reading acts.
Find
Finding an act.
Find
Finding.
- Where is a specific legal act published, and how can its current status be checked? provenance
- Is the act still in force? boundary
Read
Reading an act.
Read
Reading.
- How is a legal act structured and interpreted, in general terms? provenance
- Is legal advice needed from a professional? boundary
Kinds Specific kinds.
Administrative
Administrative acts.
Administrative
Administrative.
- What are warrants, licences, authorisations and orders, and how can they be challenged? provenance
- Which entry fits a specific act type? action
Emergency
Emergency and exceptional acts.
Emergency
Emergency.
- How are emergency decrees and exceptional powers regulated, and what debates surround them, with positions attributed? provenance
- Is the presentation neutral? boundary
Learn Theory and teaching.
Theory
Legal theory.
Theory
Theory.
- How do legal theories analyse legal acts and their effects? provenance
- Which references are standard? provenance
Teach
Teaching.
Teach
Teaching.
- How can legal acts be taught in introductory law? action
- Which misconceptions arise? provenance
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- Thing Registry
- Category
- Information and virtual systems
- Entry kind
- thing
- Plane
- INF
- Domain
- INF.KNW
- Other names and narrower kinds
- warrant of payment, authorized post, non-commercial license, decree on the continued exercise of powers under the Emergency Powers Act, Ato Regimental, litkup, DMCA takedown, clemency, authorization, action for annulment, court act, Rei vindicatio
What it is Filled
An act performed by a public authority or private party that creates, modifies or extinguishes legal rights and obligations, including legislation, decrees, regulations, administrative orders and warrants, licences and authorisations, court decisions and private acts such as contracts and wills, each valid only if made by a competent authority in the required form; legal acts are the primary instruments of legal systems and are recorded, published and interpreted according to law.
Why it exists Filled
Let an agent explain legal acts and their kinds and validity requirements, distinguish public and private acts, support finding and understanding specific acts at a general level, and route personal legal questions to professionals.
Distinguishing features Filled
- Legal effect
- Competence and form
- Public or private
- Publication and record
What robots and AI may and may not do Filled
Must not
- Present general information as legal advice for a specific case.
- Draft or execute legal acts that bind a person without their authorization.
- Cite repealed or foreign acts as applying.
- Forge or alter official legal acts.
Only with a human decision
- Signing, filing or executing a legal act on someone's behalf.
May
- Explain kinds of legal acts and their effects under a stated legal system.
- Find official texts of legal acts and cite them.
Moral aspects Filled
- Legal acts change people's rights; errors and fraud cost them dearly.
- Access to law should not depend on wealth.
Who is affected
- People bound by the act
- Third parties
- Public authorities
Owners Filled
Steward
The authority or party that makes it; courts decide on its validity.
Master systems
- Official gazettes
- Notarial and court records
Links to other meta-models Filled
parent
- Q15621286 - registry parent class
- Q1856757 - registry parent class
- Q2135540 - registry parent class
related
- legal action - category
- intellectual work - category
- certificate - documents attesting acts
- Law Commission of India - a body reviewing legislation
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled
Identity and identifiers required Filled
- Vercy registry: vr.tr.legal-act
- Wikidata: Q1864008 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1864008)
Direct properties not applicable Not applicable
Not applicable
Plane INF: no invented physical properties.
Recognition optional Filled
- Creates, modifies or extinguishes legal rights
- Made by a competent authority in required form
- A legal fact may occur without intent; a legal document may merely record
- Not physical; documents and recorded actions.
Capabilities and actions required Filled
- explain kinds and validity
- distinguish public and private acts
- support finding acts
- route personal questions
Hazards and failure modes required Filled
- Agents giving personal legal advice
- Treating invalid or repealed acts as in force
- Confusing kinds of act
Standards and interfaces required Filled
- Constitutional rules on law-making
- Administrative procedure law
- Publication and official gazette requirements
Context of use required Filled
- Acts creating or changing legal rights and duties.
- legislation and decrees
- administrative acts such as orders, warrants and licences
- judicial acts
- private legal acts such as contracts and wills
- international legal acts
Sources Filled
- Wikidata item Q1864008: legal act - identity and sense of the item
- Wikipedia (de): Rechtsakt - general description of the item
Open questions
- Should each kind of act be a separate entry?
- How should official gazettes be linked?
- How should legal databases be linked?
Machine files
Provenance
thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed
Built from: models/things/publications/thing-q1864008/spec.json