Jusletter IT

In language use, ‘rule’ and ‘norm’ are mostly taken as synonymous to one another. Actually they may denote the same but from differing points of view: the former from the one of signalling that there is a normative message made available and the latter from the one of the logically processed conceptual embodiment of such a message. As norms presuppose an axiomatic ideal of conceptualising and logifying the law, they are at home only in Civil Law where they are construed to form a Rechtsdogmatik. Or, the norm is indeed a logical unit, while the rule is a proposition.