According to the Law Dictionary, a law is a written or unwritten rule by which a country is governed and the activities of people and organisations are controlled. The Oxford Dictionary defines law as “a rule or system of rules recognised by a country or community as regulating the actions of its members and enforced by the imposition of penalties”. Blackstone, cited in Willis (1926), said that law, in its most general and comprehensive sense, “is that rule of action which is prescribed by some superior and which the...
