What Is Law?

Law is the study of the system of rules that a particular country or community recognizes as regulating the actions of its members.

In a society, law serves a variety of purposes: to keep the peace and maintain the status quo; to preserve individual rights; to protect minorities against majorities; to promote social justice; and to provide for orderly social change. Some legal systems serve these functions better than others.

The concept of law is a dynamic one, which changes as the society changes and needs change. It is a means of securing justice, and it shapes politics, economics, history and society in many ways.

It is also a system that creates a framework and rules to help individuals settle disputes between them. There are courts at all levels from local to federal to decide who should win in a dispute.

There are also different branches of law that deal with specific areas of life, such as immigration and nationality law or family law. These include the right to work and receive benefits, such as jobseekers’ allowances or housing benefits; the rights of children in a marriage; and rights to property and money in the event of divorce.

There are also more general branches of law that deal with specific areas of human activity, such as contract law, which governs the relationships between people and their properties. There is also property law, which deals with the rights and duties of people towards tangible property such as land or buildings, and intangible property such as bank accounts.