The difference between a wife and a concubine may be merely a legal one of formal registration, ceremony and other legalities.
Where there is a lack of systematic record keeping, it is difficult for the manager to prove or disprove the legality of their activities.
In modern times, if a company is considered credible, reputation often outweighs mere legality.
Nowhere, however, did he actually comment upon their legality or illegality, let alone pronouncing a verdict on the very faith of the emperor.
Countries that adapt transplanted law can have more effective legality by further developing their formal sources and building effective legal systems with effective economic development.
To claim that, however, is not to deny that the morality of a norm can sometimes be a condition of its legality.
Modest incorporationism, by contrast, allows the presence or absence of a moral property to be a sufficient condition of legality, but only in hard cases.
A "necessity" account claims that the presence or absence of moral properties can constitute necessar y, but never sufficient, conditions for legality.
