Introduction
Laws may be described as a set of rules set up that direct humans or citizens residing in a state or a community. These Laws are set up to reduce the possibilities of friction and chaos in a State and in the event the same occurs, these laws still play a huge role in dealing with them.
However, we should refer our minds to a popular maxim which goes thus; ‘Laws are made for me and not man for laws’. This is to say, that in as much as these laws are set up to direct man, man should not be a slave to the laws, rather, the laws should meet the needs of man. Thus, the element of change should be constant in law as the man will always evolve.
In this essay, we will discuss briefly, the sources of law, the relationship between the sources of law, law, and society, the process of changes in sources of law, and a few examples of the same.
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The Sources of Law
The sources of law can be divided into; primary sources and the secondary source.
The primary sources of law are considered to be those authoritative sources that are produced by the legal process itself or by the State institutions and they include; Statutes of the Legislature, Codes, and Judicial Precedents. [footnoteRef:1] [1: Alisdair Gilespie and Siobhan Weare, The English legal system (6th Edn, Oxford University Press 2017) 21]
Secondary sources on the other hand are produced by academias who try to make comments and give their own opinions or make analysis on the already existing primary law. They include; Legal Encyclopaedias, Parliamentary, and Non-Parliamentary Documents, Law Journals, Textbooks[footnoteRef:2] [2: ’Sources of UK Law ‘ (August 2012) https://www.soas.ac.uk/library/subjects/law/research/file70249.pdf> accessed 24th September 2019]
The Law and the Society
As earlier mentioned, the relationship between the law and security cannot be over-emphasized. The creation of laws can be traced back to the creation of mankind where God took man and put him into the garden of Eden to cultivate it and keep it. He further commanded the man to eat all that is in the Garden of Eden but not eat from the Tree of Knowledge and evil.[footnoteRef:3]This is to say that the laws set up are based on the way of life of persons in the society and that’s why it’s hard to separate law from society. [3: Samson Esudu, ‘The Relationship Between Law And Society Today’ (Grin AVerlag 2017) accessed 24th September 2019]
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