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the word law has various meanings or senses. Often law
refers to a set of rules and principles of conduct, action or procedure
established and formally recognized as binding by custom, agreement,
or enforced by a controlling authority; a system of law and order; administration
of justice giving effect to the laws of a community, a legal system,
such as by judicial or legislative decision, enforced by a political
authority; courts, judges, codes, cases, law suits, legal action or
proceedings; litigation. The condition of social order and justice created
by adherence to such a system: a breakdown of law and civilized behavior.
[The Middle English word law, evolved from the Old English
lagu, which derived from the Old Norse lagu, variant
of lag, meaning that which is laid down.] Often also refers
to agents or agencies involved in or responsible for enforcing the law.
Or, the science or study of law; Jurisprudence; the knowledge, nature,
use, and effects of laws and legal systems within society (the politics
of law). Includes the profession of a lawyer or an attorney; the legal
profession (the practice of law); and law enforcement officer, police.
Occasionally, an impromptu or extralegal system of justice substituted
for established judicial procedure: frontier law or taking
the law into (one's) own hands - handing out justice as one sees
fit.
Law
touches almost every area of life. There are laws about how people work
together, how people trade, and how things are owned. Laws can both
enable businesses to be run and restrict how businesses are run. Laws
create and regulate schools, hospitals and public utilities. Laws can
remove people from society for their crimes. Laws can create bridges
between different societies and there are laws about elections for who
represents and governs society. There are even laws about how to make
laws. The Greek philosopher Aristotle wrote in 350 BC: "The rule
of law is better than the rule of any individual."
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