In a key sentence Oliver Wendell Holmes mention, “the prophecies of what the courts will do in fact and nothing more pretentious, what I mean by the law”. According to the Holmes, what the law is, if we take the point of view of a bad man, that is the point of view of the person who wants to know not some abstract principle or verbal rule. But what is likely to happen to him if he does one thing rather than another. Citing the statement of Holmes, Edgar Boden Heimer says, Holmes regarded law largely as a body of edicts represents the will of the dominant interests in society, backed by force. Holmes famous remark shows, “the life of law has not been logic, it has been experience.” A law must be general, must apply more than one case, a law must express in words and words mean ‘open-textured’.

Sir William Blackstone thought that, anything properly thought of as human law is in accordance with the law of nature, which is dedicated by God and “is binding over all the globe, in all countries and at all times”.

According to the H.L.A.Hart, definition of legal concepts falls into “a familiar triad”- a) that legal terms refer to actual or likely behavior or certain individuals; b) that they refer to ideal or fictitious entities; and c) that they refer to real but invisible entities. We may now venture a rough definition of the law from the point of view of the average man.