Course Name – Indian Legal System

Course Code – BBA.LLB-106

Lecture No – 7

Topic – Purpose and Functions of Law

Model Institute of
Engineering & Technology
COURSE OUTCOMES

Mapping with Program

Course
Description Outcomes and Program
Outcomes
Specific Outcomes

Interpret the fundamentals of law and participate

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in debates around the nature of law.

Analyse the categorization of various types of law

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law.

Analyse and illustrate the various sources of law

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and their relationship inter se.

Demonstrate and apply the understanding of basic

CO4 principles of Indian legal system to real life legal 1,
problems.

Describe the structure of legal institutions and the

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hierarchy of courts in India.
Course Outcome 1 - Delivery Plan

Course Outcomes Topics Blooms Taxonomy

Interpret the fundamentals of law and

CO1 participate in debates around the nature of Understanding
law.
Lesson Outcomes

 Students will be able to interpret the fundamentals of law and participate in debates around the nature of
law.
Assessment and Evaluation Plan

 Assessment Tools

 Quiz

 Evaluation

 Assignment
PURPOSE AND FUNCTION OF LAW

 Maintain law and order in the country. It has to perform police functions.

 Plato - Mankind must either give themselves a law and regulate their lives by it or live no better than the
wildest of the wild beasts.

 Hobbes – Law was brought into the world for nothing else but to limit natural liberty of particular men
in such a manner as they might not hurt but assist one another and join together against a common
enemy.

 Locke – The end of law is not to abolish or restrain but to preserve or enlarge freedom.

 Immanuel Kant - The aim of law is freedom and the fundamental process of law is the adjustment of
one’s freedom to that every other member of the community.

 Jeremy Bentham - Of the substantive branch of the law, the only defensible object is the maximization
of the happiness of the greatest number of the members of the community in question.
PURPOSE AND FUNCTION OF LAW

 Roscoe Pound – 4 Purposes

a) Maintain law and order in the society.

b) Maintain the status quo in the society.

c) Maximum of freedom for individuals to assert themselves.

d) Maximum satisfaction of the needs of the people.

 Hindu View – Aims at the welfare of the people and salvation after death.

 Mohammedan View – Discipline of the soul, improvement of morals.

 Salmond – Justice (Distributive and Corrective).

 Uniformity and Flexibility.