Law and its elements

Few people of our society have a negative impact on law. They think that law is something else. Law is nothing but a common sense. To remove their confusion and to update ourselves, we need to know what is law.

Law is 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. If we see this definition, we will get some elements.

1. System of rules: law consists of some rules that may be created from different sources

For example: Every country has a parliament where members of parliament are selected by citizens and the main function of a parliament is to make laws.

2. Country: No country can run without any law. Man are nasty, brutish in nature. So, to protect from committing crimes, a country needs to make specific law by which a wrong-doer gets punishment if breaks any of the provisions of a specific law. Law is not confined in a country. A community, society or an organization makes laws to move forward in a specific way.

3. Enforcement: There is no use of law without enforcing it so that, in Bangladesh, there are many laws but they failed to ensure the rights of citizens and to fulfill the objects of that law. To enforce a law, our political should give the liberty to the administrative body. Sorrow to say that they are afraid to reduce their power.

4. Punishment: No law can be enforced without providing penalties. Have you ever thought ? What would a wrong-doer do if he had not punished ? It presumes that amount of crimes may reduce if we punish the culprit. But we help the wrong-doer to escape from getting punishment.

Law Quotes

• Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
  Plato
•  It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.
  Martin Luther King, Jr.
• The life of the law has not been logic; it has been reason.
  Oliver Wendell Holmes
•  An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.
  Mahatma Gandhi
•  You cannot make men good by law: and without good men you cannot have a good society.
  C. S. Lewis
•  The law of love could be best understood and learned through little children.
  Mahatma Gandhi
•  Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped, but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment.
  Mark Twain 

• The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.
  Abraham Lincoln
•  Law and justice are not always the same.
  Gloria Steinem
•  The law is reason free from passion.
  Aristotle
•  The good of the people is the chief law.
  Cicero
•  Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law.
  Sophocles

English for law

English is spoken everywhere in the world. no one can deny its importance. As a student of law, you have to learn English. In this section, I will try to introduce something to help improve your English. There is a great debate about the importance of learning grammar. I say, grammar is important but you don't need to learn grammar all the time. So, what will you do instead ? well, you are in the right place where you find some tips of improving grammar.