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FREE LAW JOURNAL - VOLUME 3, NUMBER 1 (<strong>18</strong> JANUARY <strong>2007</strong>)immediate data of jural experience 14 and social groups are specificnormative facts in this manner. After pointing that “There is noobservable society which does not include a multiplicity ofparticular groups” 15 , Gurvitch claims,” Every group in which activesociality predominates and which realizes a positive value ...affirms itself as a ‘normative fact’ engendering its own juralregulation” 16 .“Active sociality” refers to a thought of having something to bedone, a duty to be performed together and “positive value” means asocially recognized “good” that is supposed to be realized in the lifeof the particular group 17 . Different types of the social groups, inaccordance with their special qualities, are capable to produce theirown “frameworks of <strong>law</strong>” <strong>18</strong> .Closely related with these assessments, Gurvitch contends thatthere is a “spontaneous” level in the life of <strong>law</strong> as opposed to the“organized” 19 . When speaking of the <strong>law</strong> which arises from theformer level, Gurvitch uses the term “spontaneous <strong>law</strong>”, which maybe recognized and described just in the same way as the “organized<strong>law</strong>” of the state 20 .Pospisil : “The Legal Systems of Subgroups”Basing his views on anthropological studies, Leopold Pospisilargues that any human society “... does not possess a singleconsistent legal system, but as many such systems as there are14 Ibid, p. 53.15 Ibid, p. 232.16 Ibid, pp. 241, 242.17 Ibid, p. 201.<strong>18</strong> Ibid, pp. 242-250.19 Ibid, pp. 222, 223.20 Ibid, pp. 226-229.28DR. SAIM ÜYE - ENFORCEMENT OF TRIBE’S LAW OR VIOLATIONOF STATE’S LAW? ON KILLINGS BASED ON CUSTOM

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