OBLICON (Introduction and Chapter 1)

Any rule of action or any system of uniformity.

Promulgated and enforced by the state

• Law in strict legal sense

• Law in non-legal sense

Laws that are comprised in the definition of law as a rule of action. They apply to men as rational beings only.

• State Law, Divine Law, Natural Law, and Moral Law

• Physical Law

Operates on all things, including men, without regard to the latter's use of their will power and intelligence.

• State Law, Divine Law, Natural Law, and Moral Law

• Physical Law

is the law of religion and faith which concerns itself with the concept of sin and salvation

• Divine Law

• Natural Law

• Moral Law

• Physical Law

the divine inspiration in man of the sense of justice, fairness, and righteousness by internal dictates of reason alone

• Divine Law

• Natural Law

• Moral Law

• Physical Law

is the totality of the norms of good and right conduct growing out of the collective sense of right and wrong of every community.

• Divine Law

• Natural Law

• Moral Law

• Physical Law

In the operation or course of nature, there are uniformities... known as the laws of physical science

• Divine Law

• Natural Law

• Moral Law

• Physical Law

• Community-based sense of what is right or wrong.

• No formal punishment, but non-compliance can lead to disapproval.

• Influences state law but is not enforced by it.

• Divine Law

• Natural Law

• Moral Law

• Physical Law

The kind of law, however, which particularly concerns us; the law that is promulgated and enforced by the state.

• Natural Law

• Moral Law

• Physical Law

• State Law