Introduction to Law Overview

The term 'Law' denotes different kinds of rules and Principles.

Law is an instrument which regulates human conduct/behavior.

Law means Statutes, Acts, Rules, Regulations, Orders, and Ordinances from the point of view of legislature.

<p>Law means Rules of court, Decrees, Judgment, Orders of courts, and Injunctions from the point of view of Judges.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Law means Justice, Morality, Reason, Order, and Righteous from the view point of the society.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>In old English &quot;Lagu&quot; i.e. law, ordinance, rule, regulation.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>'Literally' something laid down of fixed.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>False (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The term 'law' implies &quot;Dharma&quot;.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>In Muhammadean religion (Islam) it is “Hokum”.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>In Roman its “Jus”.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>In French, its “Droit”.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>In Persian and Turkish, its Kunoon.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The Latin term &quot;Legam&quot; refers to laws and legal pronouncements.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>In Philipino its “Batas”.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>In Lithuanian its “Teise”.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>False (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>False (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A Muslim man can have four wives living at a time.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A Hindu man can have only one wife living at a time.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>True (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The law is subject to change with the change in society and also change in the Government/legislative through the amendments/Acts.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Generally the term law is used to mean three things: 1. &quot;legal order&quot;, 2. the whole body of legal Percepts which exists in a politically organized society., and 3. all official control in a politically organized society.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>First it is used to mean “legal order”, It represents the regime of adjusting relations, and ordering conduct by the systematic application of the force of organized political society.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Secondly, law means the whole body of legal Percepts which exists in a politically organized society.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Thirdly, law is used to mean all official control in a politically organized society.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Law in its narrowest or strict sense is the civil law or the law of the land.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>False (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Romans and other ancient Jurists defined law in its idealistic nature.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Roman Justinian's defined law in the light of its idealistic nature.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>According to salmond “the law may be defined as the body of principles recognized and applied by the state in the administration of Justice.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Salmond did not define the expression Justice.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>What has been considered to be just at one time has frequently not been so considered at another.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Dean Roscoe Pound has criticized the definition of Salmond as reducing law to a mass of isolated decisions and the law in that sense to be an organic whole.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Further, it is criticized on the ground that Salmond's definition applies only to lax law not to Statute.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Despite criticism, Salmond's definition is considered as the workable definition.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>According to Gray, “the Law of the State or of any organized body of men is composed of the rules which the courts, that is the judicial organ of the body lays down for the determination of legal rights and duties.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Gray's definition is criticized on the Ground that he is not concerned with the nature of law rather than its Purposes and Ends.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Further it does not take into account the statute law.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>John Austin (1790-1859) An English Jurists expounded the concept of analytical positivism, making law as a command of sovereign backed by sanction.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He developed logically, a structure of legal system in which he gave no Place to values, morality, idealism and Justice.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>According to Austin, a law, in the strict sense is a general command of the sovereign individual or the sovereign body. Issued to those in subjectivity and enforced by the physical power of the state.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>According to Austin “law is aggregate of rules set by men politically superior or sovereign to men as politically subject.”</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Austin says, “A law is command which obliges a person or persons to a course of conduct.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Austin's definition of law is subjected to criticism on the ground that it ignores completely the moral and ethical aspects of law and unduly Emphasized the imperative character of law.</p> Signup and view all the answers