SOURCES OF LAW

This is lecture of LAW series, Lecture can be helpful for study of A & O levels, Undergraduate, LAW, Graduate, Bachelors, BS, Masters in World Universities, and Competitive examinations of world. Please subscribes and share with students. Thanks. Sources of Law. Below mentioned are main sources of Law. 1. Customs or usage. It is the oldest and earliest source of law. A custom is the habit of the people handed down to them from generation to generation as their traditions. What fore fathers have done in the past has become binding upon succeeding generations. They follow it as sacred and compel others to do. In every society, many customs are found regulating the lives of the people. As the state is, consist of people hence it recognizes and enforce them. In this way, usages and customs become laws in course of time. It is also called customary law. 2. Religion. Religion is very old source of law. In primitive ages, people followed the precept and rules of their religion, which they believed to be of divine origin called divine law. It was believed that disobedience of it would be punished by divine wrath. Religious canons become the prime source of law. Religion lays down certain rules of conduct and state enforces it for the collective benefit of society. 3. Adjudication. Judges generally interpret laws and apply them to particular cases. Their decision becomes a precedent, in this way judicial decision becomes a source of law. Such decisions are called Judge made laws. 4. Commentaries. The commentaries of renowned jurists and intellectual writer on the law also become a source of law. 5. Legislation. Legislation by parliament is the most important and modern source of law in the country. In democratic governments, this function is performed by the elected legislature or law-making organ of government. The laws made by the legislature are called Statutes. Wish you good Luck Take care of yourself and others.