 Oral law - Oral law in jurisprudence: Encyclopedia II - Oral law - Oral law in jurisprudenceFrom a legal point of view, an oral law can be:
a habit, or custom with legal relevance or when the formal law expressly refers to it (but in this latter case, it is properly an indirect source of legal rights and obligations);
a command, an order, verbally given, that has to be respected as a law (in most modern western legal systems, some dispositions can be issued by word in given cases of emergency).
An oral law, intended as a body of rules, can be admitted in jurisprudence as long as it shows some eff ...
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