Тимур Санданов

7. We are now increasingly governed, indirectly or directly, by international bodies, for example, the European

6. Lastly, a very important aim of law is to settle what the system of government is to be. Today and for the last few hundred years we have been mainly governed by sovereign states. That is changing.

5. Taking these three aims together, we see that law not only threatens those who do what it forbids but promises to protect people's interests. It imposes restrictions on them but also gives them certain guarantees.

4. Laws guarantee to people who buy and sell goods, make wills, take employment, form companies and so on thet the state will if necessary enforce these arrangements. A third aim is to settle disputes about what the law is and whether is has broken.

3. The idea is that within this framework of dos and don'ts people can live more securelly. If they are more secure, they will treat one another better. A second aim is followwing.

If people disobey the rules, the law threatens them with something unpleasant (what is often called a sanction), like being punished or having to pay compensation.

Law has several aims They are all concerned with making society more stable and enabling people to flourish. The law forbids certain ways of behaving like murder, libel, and requires other, like paying income tax.

Law is one of the most basic social institutions - and one of themost necessary. No society can exist if all people did just as they pleased, without regardfor the rights of others. Nor could a society exist if its members did not recognize that they also have certain obligations toward one another.

Law is the set of enforced rules under which a society is governed