Law — Flashcards

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The central idea of law is control. Law works as a system of rules that regulates behaviour and helps the state administer justice.

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The word law comes from the old Teutonic root 'lag', meaning to lay, place, set, or fix something evenly.

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Law also derives from the Latin word 'jus', connected with 'jungere', which implies a bond or tie. This gives law the sense of binding or obliging.

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Law is 'a rule of conduct imposed by an authority'.

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Political theory concerns laws that regulate man's behaviour as a member of organised society and that deal with external conduct and are enforced by a system of compulsions.

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Law deals mainly with external conduct and is enforced by authority. Moral rules are linked with conscience, motive, and ideas of right and wrong.

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Barker described law as: 'In a democratic society, it is a technique with a purpose – it is the sum of the social influences regularly recognised and applied by the state in the administration of just…

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A. L. Lowell defined law as a 'body of rules enforced by the courts'.