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Hart's two types of rules
Primary rules (impose duties on conduct) and secondary rules (create, change, and adjudicate primary rules).
Three functions of law
Social control, dispute resolution, and social change.
SA's legal system type
A mixed system — Roman-Dutch private law, English procedure and precedent, customary law, all under a supreme Constitution.
Natural law vs legal positivism
Natural law: law must conform to morality to be valid. Positivism: law's validity depends on its source and form, not its moral content.