LAWS serve as a foundational framework essential for maintaining social order, resolving conflicts and facilitating collective goals within society. They provide clear behavioral guidelines, protect individual rights and establish mechanisms for justice and governance.

Justice, rooted in the word “just,” signifies fairness and impartiality and can be categorized into at least three types: general justice (legal justice), special justice and aequitas. Legal justice ensures adherence to law, serving the public interest without unduly sacrificing individual rights and guarantees proper legal procedures. Special justice focuses on equality and proportionality, ensuring outcomes are fair relative to what individuals deserve. Aequitas, derived from Latin for “even, level, fair,” represents generally accepted, objective fairness applied without specific consideration for unique circumstances,........

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