The Apriori Foundations Of The Civil Law by Adolf Reinach
  • 1. What is the primary focus of Adolf Reinach's 'The Apriori Foundations of the Civil Law'?
A) Historical development of Roman law
B) Comparative study of common law
C) Economic analysis of legal systems
D) A priori structures of legal entities
  • 2. Reinach's work is most closely associated with which philosophical movement?
A) British empiricism
B) Phenomenology
C) Logical positivism
D) American pragmatism
  • 3. What does Reinach mean by 'a priori' in the context of law?
A) Prior court decisions
B) Basic legal principles
C) Necessary structures independent of experience
D) Early legal systems
  • 4. Which philosopher heavily influenced Reinach's approach?
A) Jeremy Bentham
B) Edmund Husserl
C) John Locke
D) Karl Marx
  • 5. Reinach's analysis focuses primarily on which area of law?
A) Private law
B) Constitutional law
C) Criminal law
D) International law
  • 6. What is the relationship between social acts and legal entities according to Reinach?
A) Legal entities restrict social acts
B) Social acts create legal entities
C) No necessary connection
D) They are identical concepts
  • 7. Reinach's work was originally published in what year?
A) 1913
B) 1901
C) 1925
D) 1938
  • 8. Reinach argues that promises create:
A) A priori claim and obligation relations
B) Only psychological expectations
C) Social status hierarchies
D) Economic dependencies
  • 9. What is Reinach's view on the relationship between law and morality?
A) Law is applied morality
B) They are identical
C) No relationship exists
D) They are distinct but related domains
  • 10. Reinach's work was originally written in which language?
A) English
B) German
C) French
D) Latin
  • 11. Which legal system was Reinach primarily analyzing?
A) International Law
B) Roman Law exclusively
C) English Common Law
D) German Civil Law
  • 12. Which aspect of promising does Reinach emphasize as a priori?
A) The economic value
B) The exact words used
C) The cultural context
D) The creation of claim and obligation
  • 13. What is the relationship between positive law and a priori structures for Reinach?
A) No relationship exists
B) They conflict necessarily
C) Positive law presupposes a priori structures
D) A priori structures derive from positive law
  • 14. According to Reinach, what kind of entities are legal formations like promises and claims?
A) Apriori objects
B) Social conventions
C) Psychological constructs
D) Economic necessities
  • 15. Which legal act does Reinach analyze as having apriori structure?
A) Promise
B) Property transfer
C) Tort
D) Contract
  • 16. What is the ontological status of legal entities in Reinach's theory?
A) Fictional constructs
B) Social facts
C) Ideal objects
D) Material objects
  • 17. According to Reinach, how are legal essences known?
A) Through essential intuition
B) Through logical deduction
C) Through authority
D) Through sensory experience
  • 18. In Reinach's analysis, what creates a claim?
A) A promise
B) A legislative act
C) Social recognition
D) A court decision
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