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Law - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (3758 words) |
 | Law is typically administered through a system of courts in which judges (sometimes with the aid of a jury or lay magistrate) hear disputes between parties, and apply a set of rules in order to provide an outcome that is just and fair. |
| The area of public law, in a general sense, is the law in a given legal system that concerns the legal organisation of the various branches of government and institutions of state, as well as disputes between the government and private persons within the jurisdiction of the country. |
| Economic analysis of law (or economics and law) is the term usually employed to describe an approach to legal theory that incorporates and applies the methods and ideas of economics to the concepts of law. |
| CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Law (4368 words) |
| Human laws, however, must be subordinate to the Divine law, or at least, must not contradict it, for human authority is only a participation in the supreme Divine power of government, and it is impossible that God could give human beings the right to issue laws that are unreasonable and in contravention of His will. |
| Law is a bond imposed upon the subjects by which their will is bound or in some way brought under compulsion in regard to the performance or the omission of definite actions. |
| A classification of law, as limited to law administered in the courts, and familiar to Roman jurisprudence, is that of law in the strict sense and equity (jus strictum et jus aequum et bonum). |
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