Literary notes about LAW (AI summary)
The word “law” in literature is a multifaceted symbol that spans from rigid societal rules to abstract principles governing human conduct. In some texts, it refers directly to formal legal codes and institutions—as illustrated by discussions of statutory law and property rights [1][2][3]—while in others it carries a moral or even sacred weight, as seen in biblical injunctions and philosophical treatises [4][5][6]. Authors use “law” to explore the balance between individual freedom and community order, whether critiquing the corruption of legal systems [7][8][9] or suggesting that personal relationships can embody their own form of law, as when a loved one’s will becomes paramount [10]. This spectrum—from ancient code and divine command to social convention and personal destiny—demonstrates that in literature, "law" is not merely a set of rules imposed from above but a dynamic emblem of the human desire to achieve justice and order in both public and private spheres [11][12][13].
- Services and rent, then, were, and to some extent are still, dealt with by the law from the point of view of property.
— from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes - "Under the free Anglo-Saxon government, no king could ever make a law, but could only declare what the law was."
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. Burgess and Robert Ezra Park - Law, Art. 297, and App., note xvii.
— from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes - For whosoever have sinned without the law shall perish without the law: and whosoever have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law.
— from The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete - The Second Law Of Nature What it is to lay down a Right Renouncing (or) Transferring
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes - St. Paul became at once the fanatic defender and guard-of-honour of this God and His Law.
— from The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - The law forbids it, a law enacted rather because you are not competent than to disgrace you when competent.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides - The rich man transgresses the law, and the poor man is punished.
— from A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs - The Fugitive Slave Law had not then passed.
— from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself by Harriet A. Jacobs - "My dear one, your happiness is more to me than anything—although we seem to verge on quarrelling so often!—and your will is law to me.
— from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy - ] Note 91 ( return ) [ See the Salic law, (tit. lxii.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon - Another of his sayings was, “The people ought to fight for the law, as for their city.”
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius - If natural law aims at prediction it tells us what we can do.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. Burgess and Robert Ezra Park
