History of Law

November 27, 2009

The history of law is very ancient and has great experience. It has been designed from the olden days to give benefit to the people through transactions and customs. At that time, there were no courts, no judges or nobody to give guidance as to how legal codes can be developed. Early in the times of Babylonia and Mesopotamia customs were transformed into social laws. But these were not exactly laws as we see them today. It was only by Greek Philosophers laws existed in Greece and the laws were available from Homeric writings.

First legal system was introduced by Romans in the ancient Rome and thereafter the law spread to the entire Europe in 18th century. Initially, there were no solutions for the disputes that arised between individuals and as a solution to the disputes, social rules were introduced and later customary laws were introduced. Arguments laid the foundation to the law. It was natural law that stated that right conduct and justice are important for people to stay safe. Anglo-Saxon model law was first implemented by Bohr who were a group of people and they used respect the property claims of others and in turn their property was kept safe. The group also penalized individuals if there were any violations on the agreement. This was an accepted model and was a non-violent method for solving conflicts.

When commercial and trade transactions, took place in Europe, the law emerged for international trade and all European courts issued orders that those who do not abide by the procedures of the system, they would be excluded from international trade business and community. So, this sort of order and discipline brought strong recognition and identification to the history of law that the law began to strengthen the business community all over the world. Economic fines, compensation to the victim and expression of differences were also some of the benefits of the customary law.

Further this also protected social and commercial sector for solving various disputes and conflicts by easy and convenient method. By 19th and 20th century, historians have understood the vast benefit of law and began to work extensively on the introduction of various laws for the benefit of people and society. The laws were applicable to social issues, businesses, civil society and for commercial trading. Later came constitutional laws which governed the politics and governments. In this 21st century, law rules the society and there is every solution for any civil or criminal case. Litigations, petitioners, respondents, producing witnesses are some of the order procedures of law in the modern society.

Lawyer, notary, barristers, sollicitors, legal practitioner, attorney and legal consultants are the most important professions for deriving the benefit from the law. The history of law is very strong with fundamental concepts and time has proved that guilty will certainly come under the roof of punishment and no one can escape punishment if there was a serious commitment of crime. The strength and elasticity of history of law is innovative, expansive and fruitful that is safeguarding the ethics and moralities.

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