Prima facie

Abstract

The objective of this article is to identify and briefly characterize the ways in which jurists understand the prima facie character of a norm. For this, I will reconstruct the two meanings that the specialized literature usually attributes to it: i) as a way of presenting a problem of lack of information about the scope of a norm (prima facie in an epistemic sense); and ii) as a way of presenting a problem of indeterminacy generated because of the lack of hierarchy between norms (prima facie in the normative sense).