LessonsProhibition: Intrinsic Wrongfulness, External Defects, and Legal EffectsQuiz

An act may be wrong through another factor in two ways.

1. Adjacent circumstance: the prohibited feature is an external setting, such as selling at the restricted Friday-call time or praying on usurped land. Sale and prayer remain separate legal kinds.
2. Attached characteristic: the defect is incorporated into the act’s performed form, such as a sale with an unlawful condition or fasting on a specifically prohibited day.

Both may be forbidden, but their legal effects are not necessarily identical. The first involves an accompanying infringement; in the second the actual transaction or act carries a defect.

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Two sources of external wrongfulness

Prohibition: Intrinsic Wrongfulness, External Defects, and Legal Effects

An act may be wrong through another factor in two ways.

1. Adjacent circumstance: the prohibited feature is an external setting, such as selling at the restricted Friday-call time or praying on usurped land. Sale and prayer remain separate legal kinds.
2. Attached characteristic: the defect is incorporated into the act’s performed form, such as a sale with an unlawful condition or fasting on a specifically prohibited day.

Both may be forbidden, but their legal effects are not necessarily identical. The first involves an accompanying infringement; in the second the actual transaction or act carries a defect.