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Law is one of the greatest performances of civilisation; no-osphere cannot be imagined without legal frameworks holding human societies together and providing tracks along which their future existence can be maintained and improved. The human individual cannot have in a human society, if he trespasses beyond the limits imposed upon him by certain legal prescriptions. A society cannot persist if it does not guarantee to the individual certain areas of freedom to do as he pleases; freedom from certain limitations which society itself and others might impose upon him, and opportunities for a life as meaningful as possible.
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Rosdorff, L.W. (1974). The Basic Principles of Legal Evolution. In: The Framework of Legal Evolution. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-6028-3_14
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