LAW 11001 Lecture 14: INTRODUCTION TO LAW CHAPTER FOURTEEN
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Distinguish the following: law and morality (2 marks) It is a sense of judgement between rights and wrong by reference certain standards developed by society over time. It consists of standards of behavior widely used by a society consists of prescriptions of society. However, morality is not enforceable non- compliance with morality attracts sanctions of the society. Rules of law are binding and enforceable and have sanctions in all cases. Wrongs in society are contraventions of law or law or morality or both however, the law incorporates a significant proportion of morality. E. g. killing a person is immoral as well as a crime so is theft. However, certain wrongs in society contravene morality but not the laws e. g. disrespect, failure to provide for parents, failure to rescue a drumming person e. t. c: public and private law. It consists of those fields or branches of law in which the state has a direct interest as the sovereign.
