law

Scope Note

General statements dealing with several aspects of customary or imposed norms of behavior for violations of which sanctions may be enforced by some agent or agency of the politically organized community or state, and not alone through informal mechanisms of social control.

Identifier

Narrower Terms

• 671 legal norms
• 672 liability
• 673 wrongs
• 674 crime
• 675 contracts
• 676 agency
• 677 organized crime