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Fungible and Infungible Assets Explained

ITEM 19 Expendable and Expendable INFUNGIBLE ASSETS are those that can be replaced by other homogeneous assets equivalent to each other and covered by their characteristics or generic qualities. Example: money, a book.

Infungible goods are those that are identified in any legal relationship taking into account their own characteristics, which need not occur in the remaining assets of the category. Example: a book dedicated by the author or a particular box.

YOUR MONEY AS WELL AS CONSUMABLES is a unit of measure of value that is given to things in the market. The importance of money is not in its consideration as a thing, but for being a medium of exchange and payment. Money is a material thing, currency... Continue reading "Fungible vs. Infungible Assets" »

Understanding Civil Status

Civil status is a quality people possess through which they contract rights and obligations.

Different Types of Status

• Single
• Married
• Widowed
• Divorced
• Child
• Legitimate child
• Recognized natural child
• Recognized cohabitation

Acquiring or Amending Status

Status can be acquired or amended through:

Legal Acts

Events where the will of the people participates, e.g., marriage, divorce.

Legal Facts

A fact which does not involve the will of the people and has legal impact, e.g., birth, death, majority.

Court of Law

A decision made by a judge after a process. Can modify status, e.g., an adoptive child becoming legitimate (adoptive legitimation), divorce.

Characteristics of Marital Status

1. Inherent: Inherent in the human person.
2. Imperative: Cannot

Basic Working and Employment Conditions for Temporary Workers

Member States may, after consultation with social partners at national level and on the basis of an agreement concluded by them, establish provisions concerning the basic working and employment conditions which derogate from the principle established in paragraph 1. Such arrangements may include a deadline to achieve equal treatment. The provisions referred to in this paragraph shall comply with Community law and be sufficiently precise and accessible to allow sectors and enterprises concerned to identify and meet their obligations.

Social Security and Other Schemes

Member States shall specify whether social security schemes, including pensions, cash benefits for sickness, or financial... Continue reading "Temporary Worker Rights: Conditions, Access, and Equal Treatment" »

General Contractual Clauses (CGC)

CGC: "are standard clauses in a contract imposed by one party, regardless of its authorship, external appearance, size or other circumstances, and intended to be incorporated into a plurality of contracts."

Legal Status and Control System

Legal status: These are elements that make it possible to streamline contracting processes but can be negative because they may express the dominance of the offeror over the consumer. The result can be a model contract virtually immune to consumer complaints. Therefore, the law has imposed conditions that constitute a control system established by Law 26/1984 and Directive 93/13/EEC (1993).

The control system under these laws performs two types of control:

• Control of incorporation:

Effects of Obligations in Law

This section outlines the fundamental aspects and consequences related to legal obligations.

Compliance with Obligations

• Effective implementation of the provision.
• The allowance is indivisible.
• The active subject of compliance is the debtor.
• Payment by a third party is possible.

Time and Place of Performance

Their determination is crucial for declaring default by either the debtor or the creditor.

• Creditor's Mora Provision: Deposit in court at the disposal of the creditor and debtor to give and receive the benefit.

Understanding Default

Default signifies a breach of obligation. It can be:

• Absolute Default: Inability to execute future benefit.
• Relative Default: Compliance outside or in part, which can be rejected by the creditor.

Obligations

• General obligations
• Real right: It is one that directly and immediately gravitates on a certain thing, and that requires everyone's equal respect, but purely passive.
• Credit or personal law: It is a special relationship between two specific individuals, one of whom may require the other, determined to provide what under common law is due.

Example: Right to ownership, right to credit a sum of money due to us under a loan.

• The requirement: A link right on the necessity compels us to pay for a thing. The creditor is the active subject of the relationship, and the debtor has liabilities. The lender expects or hopes that the debtor complies with what has been committed to.
• Elements of the obligation: It has two subjects, one active and

Ordinary General Resource Classes

Ordinary General Resource classes can be filed for any reason and apply to any type of event.

Types of Administrative Appeals

• An appeal (Alzada): This is directed against acts that do not exhaust administrative remedies. It comes before the superior body of the one that dictated the act.
• Appeal of Revocation or Replacement (Reposición): This is optional, aimed at acts that exhaust administrative remedies, and is submitted to the same body that issued the act.

Extraordinary Revision Procedures

An extraordinary revision is raised against final administrative actions before the court that ruled on them, specifically where certain circumstances prescribed by law exist:

• Error of fact resulting from the documents on file.

Classes of Official Duties

Economic, non-economic, and social union.

A) Economic

Officials are entitled to basic pay, salary and bonuses, triennial bonuses, and additional remuneration for extra allowances, specific productivity, and gratuities.

B) Non-economic Rights

At the office, career development, appropriate treatment, dignity and privacy, leave, etc.

C) Trade Union Rights

To self-organize, to strike, and trade union participation and representation.

D) Social Rights

Contingencies and benefits in general, basic and complementary.

Duties of Officials

The duties of officials are understood as the legal obligations they have regarding the services provided in public administration.

Classes of Duties of Officials

From a moral, professional, and political... Continue reading "Official Duties and Rights in Public Administration" »

Evolution of Spanish Labor Law

The power of employers over workers and lack of unity among workers provoked many abuses.

In Spain, between 1919 and 1931, important labor law codes were first promulgated.

In 1980, the Workers' Statute law was enacted, and in 1995, the Revised Text of the Workers' Statute law was adopted.

Divisions of Law

Traditionally, law is divided into public and private, and these are subdivided in turn into different branches.

Public Law

When the state and public bodies act officially.

Private Law

Governs relations between individuals, or with the state and public agencies when acting privately.

Labor Law

Occupies an intermediate position between public and private law.

Characteristics of Labor Law

Voluntariness

The worker should be... Continue reading "Understanding Labor Law in Spain" »