Understanding Law: Definition of Law, Function of Law, and Division of Law

black cat in the sack of legal science

  

2. Friedman  

law is in the air, invisible and intangible, even usually as soft as air in normal touch. Legal science is a word with many meanings, as slippery as glass, as agile as a soap bubble. Law is a concept, abstraction, social construction and not a real object in the world around us.

  

3. Sir Frederick Pollock

that there is no doubt from a law student to define what is meant by "estate", but on the contrary, the greater the opportunity for a law scholar to explore knowledge, and the more time given to examine the principles of law, the more doubt he will have when faced with the question of what is law?

  

4. Mr. Dr. I. Kisch

because law cannot be captured by the senses, it is difficult to create a definition of law that can satisfy people in general

  

5. Black

law is governmental social control. In this case, Black describes law as an effort of social control by the state using legislation, litigation, and adjudication, distinguished from behavior controlled by other forms of social control such as manners, customs, and bureaucracy

  

6. Hugo Grotius

law is a moral rule that is in accordance with what is right”. This means that in Grotius' view, the law must be in accordance with correct values in order to be considered a good law;
Hans Kelsen: “law is a coercive command towards human behavior. Law is a primary norm that establishes sanctions

7. Roscoe Pound

law means legal order, which has subjects, individual relationships between one human being and another, and individual behavior that affects other individuals or affects social order, or economic order. Meanwhile, law in the sense of a collection of basic authorities from court decisions or administrative actions, has subjects in the form of expectations or demands by humans as individuals or groups of humans that influence their relationships or determine their behavior

  

8. Friedrich Carl Von Savigny

law is truly formed through habit and popular sentiment, namely through the silent operation of state power. Law is rooted in human history, the roots of which are enlivened by the awareness, beliefs, and habits of citizens

  

9. Utrecht

law is a set of instructions, commands and prohibitions that regulate order in a particular society. Violations of these life instructions can lead to actions by the government or the rulers of that society

  

10. N.E. Algra

the notion that only laws provide law has long been abandoned. Overall, it can be said that most legal rules are accepted as law. Furthermore, many legal rules are not found in laws (for example: customary law rules, rules formed through court decisions, jurisprudential rules, rules of good faith, etc.)

  

11. Gustav Radbruch

law is a cultural element, like other cultural elements, law embodies one of the values in concrete human life. That value is the value of justice. Law only has meaning as law, if it is a manifestation of justice or at least an effort towards the realization of justice