Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
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imperative theory of law
The theory that law consists of the general commands issued by a country or other political community to its subjects and enforced by courts with the sanction of physical force. ( Imperative theorists believe that if there are rules predating or independent of the country, those rules may closely resemble law or even substitute for it, but they are not law. See POSITIVE LAW. Cf. NATURAL LAW. imperfect duty . See DUTY (1)
predictive theory of law
The view that the law is nothing more than a set of predictions about what the courts will decide in given circumstances. ( This theory is embodied in Holmes's famous pronouncement, "The prophecies of what the courts will do in fact, and nothing more pretentious, are what I mean by the law." Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., The Path of the Law, 10 Harv. L. Rev. 457, 460-61 (1897). - Also termed prediction theory. Cf. BAD-MAN THEORY.
theory of law
The legal premise or set of principles on which a case rests.