Course Organiser: Nicholas Grier MA, LLB, WS, Solicitor 
 
Meanings of the Term “Law” 
Law has a variety of meanings usually involving a fair method of resolving disputes, 
or following procedures that help establish certainty as to ownership or entitlement to 
certain assets or advantages. Law also lays down penalties for failure to adhere to 
certain social or economic norms. 
On a more philosophical level, law uses as its benchmark either a universal intangible 
sense of justice/equity (the Hartian view) or law is what the state pronounces to be the 
law, (“positivism”) usually taking into account social mores, religious views, 
economic attitudes (e.g. capitalism) and sometimes “national identity”. 
In this course we are mostly looking at a small section of law, known as private law, 
and in particular at the commercial aspects of private law. We are not looking at 
international law, criminal law, procedural law, family law or public law. We are just 
looking at the law relating to people’s rights and duties towards each other in the 
commercial world.

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