There have been and will continue to be different definitions of law. The Greek philosopher Aristotle (384-322 B. C.) saw law as a "pledge that citizens of  a state will do justice to one another." Aristotle" s  mentor, Plato (427-347 B. C.), believed law was a form of social control. The Roman philosopher Cicero (106-43 B. C.) contended the law was the agreement of reason and nature, the distinction between the just and the unjust. The British jurist Sir William Blackstone (1723-1780) described law as "a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a state, commanding what is right, and prohibiting what is wrong." In USA , the eminent  jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841-1935), contended that law was a set of rules that allowed one to predict how a court would resolva a particular dispute - "the prophecies of that the  courts will do in fact, and nothing more pretentiousq are what I mean by the law."
Although these definitions vary in their particulars, theyall are based on the following general observation concerning the nature of law: Law consists of enforceable rules governing relationships among individuals and between individuals and their society. In the study of law, often referred to as jurisprudence, this very broad statement concerning the nature of law is the point of departure for for all legal scholars and philosophers...