Administrative Law and Constitutional Principles

Nature and Scope of Administrative Activities

The nature and scope of administrative activities can be broadly understood as follows:

Nature of Administration

  1. Management and Coordination: Administration involves planning, organizing, coordinating, and controlling activities to achieve organizational goals.

  2. Policy Implementation: Administrators ensure that policies set by the organization or government are implemented effectively.

  3. Decision-Making: Administrative roles often require making decisions

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Economic Freedom and Property Rights Under the Chilean Constitution

Freedom to Develop Economic Activities and Economic Amparo

Freedom to develop economic activities, also known as Economic Amparo, was conceived as an instrument to provide protection to economic freedom, just as economic freedom is also protected by another resource called the writ of protection. (1) Both instruments aim to protect economic freedom, but a distinction must be made. While Economic Amparo has only been designed for economic freedom, the writ of protection has been designed for the protection

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Labor Law Sources: Understanding the Hierarchy and Application

Item 3: Sources of Labor Law

Table of Sources of Labor Law

The sources of labor law can be drawn from the general clauses of the sources of the Legal System. These sources include:

  • The Constitution: Contains many provisions related to these sources.
  • The Civil Code: Preliminary set of system sources (Article 1).
  • The Organic Law on the Judiciary (LOPJ).

After the Labor Contract Law, labor law provides a specific picture of the sources of labor law that is contained in the Workers’ Statute (Article 3). The

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Public Safety and Crime Prevention in Brazil

Public Safety as Defined by the Federal Constitution of 1988

Public safety is a duty of the State, a right and responsibility of all, and is exercised to preserve public order and the safety of persons and property. This is achieved through various bodies: the Federal Police, Federal Highway Police, Federal Railway Police, Civil Police, Military Police, and Military Fire Brigades.

Public Safety as a Public Service

Public service must consider the citizen as the recipient. Shack in the slums should

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Key Concepts in Civil Law: Property, Contracts, and Obligations

Legal Capacity and Capacity to Act

Legal capacity is the ability to have rights and obligations. Capacity to act is the ability to exercise rights and obligations. The clearest example can be seen in the theme of inheritance, where a child, despite being the owner of the estate, may not dispose of it fully until they come of age.

Property and Usufruct

Property is the domain, absolute dominion over a thing or a right (Article 348 of the Civil Code). Usufruct is the property law to enjoy something completely

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Understanding Executive Procedures: Enforcement and Legal Actions

Executive Procedure

The declarative procedure is one in which a plaintiff sought a right only, whereas the enforcement procedure is the process of complying with an obligation, in which there is already a recognized right in a sentence or a tool that the law has given the executive character and the debtor has not fulfilled its obligation.
The CPC establishes procedures for the enforcement of an obligation forced.

Executive Incidental Trial

Also called incidental performance award or enforcement proceedings

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