What is law?

 Bharat Mata Ki Jay!

Here are few statements of law scholars regarding the meaning, scope, characteristics of law.

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"The Law embodies the story of a nation's development through many centuries, and it cannot be dealt with as if it contained only the axioms and corollaries of a book of a mathematics. In order to know what it is we must know what it has been and what it tends to become."

- Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes