ABSTRACT
Social life is dependent on the capacity of people to create rules to guide them in their everyday activities. The rules themselves, in normal situations, will represent a common denominator of shared values and practices which may be enumerated in different ways – within a comprehensive prior framework in the form of legislation, by retroactive announcement while dealing with a particular issue that requires solution in the form of adjudication, or by the general acknowledgment and acceptance of agreed and known norms of behavior.
