what is Law?

Question

Law means the obligations or circumstances which are to be followed by us as fixed by Central Government or State government or both.

Answer 1

from what I remember from college ethics: law is a system created by the government to protect it's citizens

(this examples are from U.S. law)

example: since it is a crime to steal, most people don't do it;
also w/o laws crime rate would be even higher

and (2) this is why you can feel safe going to the ATM (at a normal time of course) and don't have to fear that someone will shoot you on site (for your money)

Answer 2

Law is a stick which controls the public of any state

But the authorities takes this for their own use and it is not working properly now a days

Now what is law we can't see in actual

Answer 3

The same quetion I replied 3 months back,I repeat my answer again. Contract law, company law, divorce law, property law, constitutional law, penal law, inheritance law, all these which we in simple words call law actually are the statute/enactments that tell us what is provided in these, each & every section, chapter & part in these books. We read them along with the rules enacted/provided along with them & say now we know what is law with regards to property or divorce or crime. But this not so. A police officer reads the penal law relating to obscenity & when he sees some nude photograph of a lady he'll say well this is obscenity & it should be punished. But when the same matter reaches the court, the court defines the obscenity first & then see if the said nude photograph can be covered under the said definition of obscenity or not. This interpretation of the term obscenity & its correct application in the given case is LAW. So what ever the courts/judiciary interperates regarding any statute/enactment becomes law of the country. I still remember my constitutional law professor had asked this same question in the class & the answers which almost all student gave was what I see here but I only gave this answer that 'Law' is what court/judiciary says & this was the only correct answer that was applauded by the professor. The morals, ethics, and customs all we talk about that we follow in our daily routine have been given the status of law by the courts by correctly interpreting them & applying even these in our matters of disputes, In end I will say all what ever is provided to us by our ancestors in the form of morals, customs & ethics or provided by our law makers as enactments, rules & applications etc combine to form a complete human law in lines with how they have to be followed told to us by our judiciary.

Answer 4

To abide by obligations or circumstances is alright. but not necessarily framed by Governments. A Guru or priest, Panchayat, Consortium, Chambers, or any other body can make law.
Law is a set of rules to be obeyed mandatorily.

Answer 5

What about the responsibility of government to the people, is that not law also?

Answer 6

Right

Answer 7

The system of rules which a particular country or community recognizes as regulating the actions of its members and which it may enforce by the imposition of penalties.

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Answer 8

(In India)law means thing which is specially made for broken not for follow

Answer 9

as per Rousse[a French writer ] it is social contract.