Understanding Obligations and Liabilities in Civil Law

Concept and Classification of Obligations

Credit Rights: The powers that allow a person (creditor) to require another person (debtor) to act in a certain way. An obligation is the legal relationship whereby a person, called the debtor, is subject to performing a specific action that another person, named the creditor, has the right to demand.

Elements of an Obligation

  • Real Elements: The content of the material or performance obligation on which the obligation rests.
  • Personal Elements: Debtor and creditor.
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Civil Procedure: Jurisdiction and Legal Actions

Study these procedures to obtain a positive legal outcome.

Jurisdiction: Voluntary and Contentious

Next to the action, we have jurisdiction. Law enforcement is carried out only by the judiciary. The rite is the determination of the action, applicable to the case. Jurisdiction can be:

  • Voluntary: Refers to cases in which the judge is involved, not to resolve a conflict, but only to authorize it. Examples include marriage and adoption.
  • Contentious: Requires the intervention of the judiciary to resolve
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Labor Rights and Social Security: Key Concepts

What is a Union?

A union is a democratic organization composed of workers in defense and promotion of their social, economic, and professional interests related to their work activity, relative to the center of production (factory, shop, company) or employer with whom they are contractually related.

What is a Collective Agreement?

A collective agreement is an agreement between the representatives of workers and employers to determine working conditions and productivity in a given workplace. To be meaningful,

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Roman Property Law: Rights, Limits, and Defense

Item No. 3: The Property

Property is the power that belongs to a person, named the owner, to directly obtain from a certain thing all the legal use this thing is likely to provide.

Characters

  1. It was an absolute right, not because it may have limitations, but because the powers of the owner are not prohibited or limited exhaustively and are therefore indeterminate. The advantages of ownership are reduced to three:
    • Jus utendi: the right to use the thing.
    • Jus fruendi: the right to obtain fruits and revenues.
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Understanding Legal Decrees in Chile: Enactment and Publication

Punishment, Enactment, and Publication

Once all previous steps have been completed, the President of the Republic approves and enacts the law. It is then an order to be fulfilled as the law of the Republic and is published in the official gazette. The promulgation is made through a Presidential Decree, which mandates compliance as the law of the Republic and its publication.

Between the sanction and promulgation, the Comptroller reviews the constitutionality and legality. If it is approved, it is

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Urban Planning and Construction: Systems, Contracts, and Regulations

Actuation Systems in Urban Planning

  • Compensation System

    Run by the owners themselves, who also create cost estimates for planning. The Junta de Compensación (JC) has legal personality.

  • Cooperation System

    The council aims to acquire market territories.

  • Expropriation System

    Owners are deprived of ownership in exchange for compensation.

  • Forced Execution System

    Applied to owners who fail to comply with the Compensation System.

  • Developer Concession System

    Benefits and burdens are shared.

Property Registration

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