Somali legal Forum (SlF)

• The territory • It is defined as part of the State Earth surface over which the State exercises its sovereignty '. • The territory includes the mainland, including the waters that flow (lakes, rivers, canals, inland seas), the atmosphere, the soil, and the territorial sea. • The land belonging to the State is bounded or surrounded by borders, which are either conventional or natural. • The conventional boundaries are established by international treaties, concluded with neighboring states; • these boundaries are represented on the ground in various ways (boundary stone, poles, fences, etc.); the natural boundaries are characterized by geographic boundaries (mountains, rivers); thus, for example, when the border is marked by a navigable river, it is assumed that the boundary line for the line distance of the most' high current; if, instead, the river is not 'navigable it is assumed that the boundary passes over the midline. • • Cont • Sovereignty ...

  •The State, its elements, its organs •  • Concept of  State • •  The State is a historic phenomenon or event that characterizes the modern era. The current international community presents a plurality of society organized, independent of one another and coordinated for mutual relations, which are called States. • • From the legal point of view, the State can be defined: the political organization adopted by a people allocated on a given territory. With this, the three elements that constitute of the State: the people, the land (territory), the political organization (or government). • • The individuality of the State is characterized, the attribution to it of the status of legal person; this happens for example in the Italian system, in which not only the Italian State have this qualification, but foreigner States have also this qualification. •  •Cont. •In most legal systems, explicitly or implicitly recognized the State the stat...

•                 The Somali Legal System                      (Sources of Law) Every legal system  ( L’ordinamento Giuridico Somalo ) has its own rules on legal production Sources of law: • For the purposes of systematic classification it is necessary to bear in mind the provisions of article 1 of the provisions of the law in general premises to the Civil Code in force. • That article lists as sources of legal system: • a)-laws; • b)-regulations; • c )-customary; • • •                           Cont. • The law: it is among the main written sources which constitute the legislative measure enacted by State legislatures. • The law contains a genera...