For example, in insurance contracts it is assumed that all risks covered under the policy are legal ventures."
Anna-Maria Marshall[3] states, this shift in framing happens because our perceptions depend "on new information and experiences"; this very idea is the basis of Ewick and Sibley definition of legality – our everyday experiences shape our understanding of the law.
The concept of legality the opportunity to consider how where and with what effect law is produced in and through commonplace social interactions. ...
How do our roles and statuses our relationships, our obligations, prerogatives and responsibilities, our identities and our behavoiurs bear the imprint of law.
"[4] In a paper on Normative Phenomena of Morality, Ethics and Legality, legality is defined taking the state's role in to account as "The system of laws and regulations of right and wrong behavior that are enforceable by the state (federal, state, or local governmental body in the U.S.) through the exercise of its policing powers and judicial process, with the threat and use of penalties, including its monopoly on the right to use physical violence.
In the United Kingdom under the doctrine of Parliamentary sovereignty, the legislature can (in theory) pass such retrospective laws as it sees fit, though article 7 of the European Convention on Human Rights, which has legal force in Britain, forbids conviction for a crime which was not illegal at the time it was committed.
In contrast many written constitutions prohibit the creation of retroactive (normally criminal) laws.
Such a result could not occur under parliamentary sovereignty (or at least not before Factortame) as a statute was law and its validity could not be questioned in any court.