Law

“Law” refers to the predetermined body of rules that dictate how any individual should behave or conduct themselves or their business within society. It is bound by legal force, meaning breach of these laws is met with punishment as decided by the relevant judiciary for that territory. The law is recognised, upheld, maintained, and enforced by the relevant controlling authority. The law can be broken down into further sections to more specifically identify legal disputes. These sections are numerous, including (but not limited to):
Banking
Commercial
Constitutional
Construction
Contract
Corporate
Criminal
Employment
Environmental
Family
And many more. Laws must be separated in this manner to properly account for the volume of legal disputes that are carried out year after year. The origin of law is not precisely known, as records of rules of conduct precede writing. Originally, the ‘law’ as we know it was solely administered by the sovereign. It was only after the emergence of literacy that laws were formalised in a similar fashion to how they are now. The earliest recorded lawbook dates back to 2100 B.C. from a Middle Eastern state. It wasn’t for another thousand years that the concept of written law made its way to Athens and Israel.