Legality

Legality is the legal permissibility of an action, toleration or omission. The term also includes the legal existence of relationships between people with each other (eg legal relationship legal relationship ) between persons and things (eg, legal gun ownership ), and between people and rights (eg permit). Must be distinguished from the legitimacy.

Word description

The word legality comes from the Latin (lex, legis, legalitas ), meaning law / legality, IAW a law is a collection of generally binding legal norms in a formal procedure by the authorized state body - has been adopted - the legislature.

Definitions

• Rule: If agreement state or private actions with the applicable positive law (constitution, laws, regulations ). The binding of all state authority to the current law is an essential component of the rule of law.

• On the fringes of the law: An act that is just covered by the law, there are already moves into the realm of illegality.

• Legality principle: a principle in criminal proceedings, which states that the law enforcement agency in an offense on its own initiative ("ex officio " ), ie without display or application suspicion has to be determined.

Illegality

The opposite of legality is illegality. It denotes a violation of applicable law, whether by the citizens and the state. Just as with the legality relationship to an object is possible. A form of illegality is a criminal offense. If a violation of the legality of the law has been defined as particularly ächtungswürdig, is traded punishable. A milder form is an offense.