Even should a loss notice be issued, when the passport is found later, it is legally valid and the police officials are not appointed or authorized to follow the loss notices.
If a course of reflection or discourse makes it appropriate to acknowledge the rule's "settled" or "posited" character as cognizable by reference to social-fact sources, one can say that it is legally valid though too unjust to be obeyed or applied.
(e.g. think about a new law, just enacted; it is legally valid even if nobody has yet had an opportunity to comply with it).
"We always scrutinize each government request we receive for account data to make sure it is legally valid," said Sonderby.
Before that happens, the will must be admitted to probate — the system through which a court determines if it is a legally valid document.
Thus, "a norm is considered to be legally valid", Kelsen wrote, "on the condition that it belongs to a system of norms, to an order which, on the whole, is efficacious" (GT, 42).
At some stage, in every legal system, we get to an authorizing norm that has not been authorized by any other legal norm, and thus it has to be presupposed to be legally valid.
He holds that a duty is legally valid if it is part of the legal system (i.e., if it is certified as such by the tests for law in that system), and a legal duty is morally valid only if there are sound moral reasons to comply with it.
Owing to the secure transmission lines and the verification protocols exchanged between telex senders and receivers, transmitted telex messages are considered to be legally valid documents.
For example, a by-law is legally valid because it is created by a corporation lawfully exercising the powers conferred on it by the legislature, which confers those powers in a manner provided by the constitution, which was itself created in a way provided by an earlier constitution.
How insane is it that one sort of monogamous, consenting-adult love is more legally valid than another?
