Law is a system of rules that people develop in order to deal with crime, business agreements, and social relationships. It also includes a system of courts that enforce these rules and apply to everyone equally.
In some jurisdictions, laws are codified, or written down in a book, and this can make them more accurate and easy to understand. In other jurisdictions, judges are able to create their own laws.
The four principal purposes of law are: (a) establishing standards, (b) maintaining order, (c) resolving disputes, and (d) protecting liberties and rights.
There are many different branches of law, including criminal law, immigration law, nationality law, social security law, family law and transactional law. In most countries, civil law is based on a system of codes that are arranged in a logical and dynamic taxonomy that encourages cooperation, predictability, and adaptation to change.
A legal norm exhibiting Hohfeldian forms is usually considered to be a “right.” But not all rights are “legal.” For example, the immunity from inheriting property rights on the grounds of one’s gender hardly seems to qualify as a right.
There are two basic kinds of rights: (1) claim-rights, which are primarily derived from the notion of entitlement and (2) non-claim-rights, which are more closely related to the notion of correlative duty. Claim-rights are typically the most important type of legal rights.