Law Directory

Law is a rule of conduct or procedure established by custom, agreement, or authority. It is the body of rules and principles governing the affairs of a community and enforced by a political authority; a legal system. It is condition of social order and justice created by adherence to such a system. Law is a set of rules or principles dealing with a specific area of a legal system.

Law does not develop systematically until a state with a centralized police authority has appeared. For this development a written language is not required, but necessarily the earliest known legal codes are those of literate societies.