LAW is "THE LAW"

People have always as a matter of necessity lived by rules. It does not matter where in the world; it does not matter in what age, whether the society in which they lived was a simple or a complex one by our present day standards.

These rules are likely to be influenced by nature, society and by the natural instinct that everyone has for survival which may be influenced by religious or secular beliefs, and they will cater for the ideas of right and wrong that have been developed over time to time.

If we think about our self, we form a club to include our friends, certainly the first thing will be to choose a leader and come up with some rules. As time goes, we may observe all the rules made by us do not work, and we will change and adapt them to suit our needs based on any new ideas which we may have, but without any rules we will not be able to manage at all. Even criminals who plan a crime works to a set of rules of their making, however unpleasant them and their crime may be.

Similarly every sport has to have its own set of rules. Even the simplest sport, such as running a race, has rules. If it had none, everyone would set off at different times and in different directions and stop at different places. Imagine what it would be like trying to play cricket, football, tennis without rules!

If we think about our own family, we will know that there are things that we have to do and things we are not allowed to do. Some of these rules will be very obvious and we would expect to find them in any family. Some may apply only in our lives. They may be sensible, or they may seem to us or to outsiders to be strange – even foolish. We may well question the rules, but we will be told that there is no point in doing so: this is how the things have always been, and how they are, i.e. – ‘the Law is The Law’!

Sometimes we use the expression ‘laws’ when we are talking about the rules by which we live our own lives. ‘This is the law in our family’; ‘these are the laws of football’. We all know what may happen if we break these ‘laws’- there will likely be punishment or, in the case of sport, penalties of one kind or another.

In this country there are certain rules that are there to be obeyed by everyone – by us, parents, family, and teachers – by everyone who is old enough to behave responsibly. Many of these rules have grown up out of customs which have developed over the centuries, and have been adopted by the judges sitting in the courts. Many more rules have been laid down for us all by parliament. If any of us break these rules, we may be brought before a court of law. We may be punished by the court, or ordered to make amends in some way. 

Hence, it can be aptly argued that all the rules that could result in the courts deciding to take action against us if we break them may be called laws.

Law links the past to the future. 
The law is a story of our moral progress as a people.