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The rule that a ripe apple must fall to the ground and the command that ‘thou shalt not kill’ are both described as ‘laws’. Yet, in each sense the word ‘law’ has a different meaning. In the first sense the ‘law’, in the laws of gravity, is used to describe a rule of nature. In the second sense ‘law’ refers to a rule that has been made in order to regulate the conduct of one individual towards another.
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© 1979 James Dunbar-Brunton
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Dunbar-Brunton, J. (1979). The Nature of Law. In: The Law and the Individual. Macmillan Texts for Business Studies. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-04532-7_1
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