Certain laws provide facilities for realizing wishes instead of imposing duties.

Evidence

Legal rules defining the ways in which valid contracts or wills or marriages are made do not require persons to act in certain ways whether they wish to or not. Such laws do not impose duties or obligations. Instead, they provide individuals with facilities for realizing their wishes, by conferring legal powers upon them to create, by certain specified procedures and subject to certain conditions, structures of rights and duties within the coercive framework of the law. — HLA Hart, The Concept of Law (Clarendon Law…, 175

Categorization

• XREF: XREF relates to legal philosophy and Austin’s command theory. — connects to: Constitutional limits on supreme legislation operate through legal disabilities rather than duties — HLA Hart, The Concept of Law (Clarendon Law…, 261; Primary rules impose duties while secondary rules confer public or private powers — HLA Hart, The Concept of Law (Clarendon Law…, 288; States can owe obligations to the poor without granting them corresponding rights — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 414 (+5 more)
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — HLA Hart, The Concept of Law (Clarendon Law…, 175

Broader Connections

• Primary rules impose duties while secondary rules confer public or private powers #corroborates (0.95) — HLA Hart, The Concept of Law (Clarendon Law…, 288
• Constitutional limits on supreme legislation operate through legal disabilities rather than duties #corroborates (0.75) — HLA Hart, The Concept of Law (Clarendon Law…, 261