Role and Function of Law
Role and Function of Law Paper
Andrew Urey
LAW/421
July 10, 2013
Winifred Cannon
Role and Function of Law Paper In society as well as a business, law plays a significant role in their daily operation. For a society to be efficient and effective, laws have to be put into place to regulate social behavior. This paper intent is to define the functions and role of law in business and society. Finally, an example of how law is observed in the United States Navy will be elaborated upon. According to Melvin (2011), Law is define as body of rules and action or conduct determined by a regulation authority as well as having legal binding force. Within a society as well as a business, law has eight different primary functions. These functions includes keeping peace, influencing and enforcing standards of conduct, maintaining the status quo in certain aspect of society, facilitating order change, promoting social justice, facilitating planning and the realization of reasonable expectations, providing a mechanism for compromising solutions between polar principles and position and providing for maximum self-assertion by the individual. World Academy Online (2010-2013). There are 4 major sources of Law in the United States. They are Common Law, Administrative Law, Statutory Law and Constitutional Law. 1) Common Law unlike other laws is laws made by the courts and need not be an act of the legislature. It is based on the fundamentals of previous cases with similar conditions. The traditions of Common Law within the United States can be linked to similar laws used in Britain. Whatever colonies that Great Britain conquered and gained control over, Common Law was the law put in place to govern the people. Common Law stresses the fact that if a case was judge in the past and a verdict was given, similar cases in the future should have similar or the same verdicts. 2) Administrative Law: The function of Administrative Law in society and business is to
Andrew Urey
LAW/421
July 10, 2013
Winifred Cannon
Role and Function of Law Paper In society as well as a business, law plays a significant role in their daily operation. For a society to be efficient and effective, laws have to be put into place to regulate social behavior. This paper intent is to define the functions and role of law in business and society. Finally, an example of how law is observed in the United States Navy will be elaborated upon. According to Melvin (2011), Law is define as body of rules and action or conduct determined by a regulation authority as well as having legal binding force. Within a society as well as a business, law has eight different primary functions. These functions includes keeping peace, influencing and enforcing standards of conduct, maintaining the status quo in certain aspect of society, facilitating order change, promoting social justice, facilitating planning and the realization of reasonable expectations, providing a mechanism for compromising solutions between polar principles and position and providing for maximum self-assertion by the individual. World Academy Online (2010-2013). There are 4 major sources of Law in the United States. They are Common Law, Administrative Law, Statutory Law and Constitutional Law. 1) Common Law unlike other laws is laws made by the courts and need not be an act of the legislature. It is based on the fundamentals of previous cases with similar conditions. The traditions of Common Law within the United States can be linked to similar laws used in Britain. Whatever colonies that Great Britain conquered and gained control over, Common Law was the law put in place to govern the people. Common Law stresses the fact that if a case was judge in the past and a verdict was given, similar cases in the future should have similar or the same verdicts. 2) Administrative Law: The function of Administrative Law in society and business is to