DEFINITION OF

LAW
Reporters:
De Guzman, Abegail Eunice
Estrevencion, Joyce
WHAT IS
LAW?
It is possible to describe law
as the body of official rules
and regulations, generally
found in constitutions,
legislation, judicial opinions,
and the like, that is used to
govern a society and to
control the behaviour of its
members, so Law is a formal
mechanism of social control.
 MAINSTREAM
DEFINITIONS OF
LAW
Numerous definitions of law have been put forward over the
centuries.
MAINSTREAM DEFINITIONS

The Third New "Law is a binding custom or practice

International of a community a rule or mode of
conduct or action that is prescribed
Dictionary from or formally recognized as binding by
MerriamWebster a supreme controlling authority or is
defines law as: made obligatory by a sanction (as
an edict, decree, rescript, order,
ordinance, statute, resolution, rule,
judicial decision, or usage) made,
recognized, or enforced by the
controlling authority."
MAINSTREAM DEFINITIONS

The Dictionary of the "A legal system is the most

History of Ideas explicit, institutionalized, and
published by complex mode of regulating
human conduct. At the same
Scribner's in 1973
time, it plays only one part in
defined the concept the congeries of rules which
of law accordingly as: influence behavior, for social
and moral rules of a less
institutionalized kind are also of
great importance."
MAINSTREAM DEFINITIONS

Definition of law
Glanville Williams "Law is the cement of
Learning the society and also an essential
law medium of change.
Knowledge of law increases
ones understanding of
public affairs.
ENGINEERING LAW
ENGINEERING LAW

Engineering law (or law

in engineering) is the
empirical study of the
application of laws and
legal strategy in
engineering.