Hogbin's Law and Order in Polynesia

Basic biological needs as cultural determinants along with the derived or instrumental needs such as education, legal order, economic organization, social groupings, needs which have to be satisfied as urgently as biological requirements.

Law. Imperative determinism imposed by nature.

Law. Granted that no one is moved to raise a fuss, or hardly an eyebrow, when a deviant departs from the lines of conduct prescribed by the rules that fall in this category.

Law. Delimit divergent interests, and curtail disruptive physiological and sociological tendencies (sexual and acquisitive, for instance). It is the law of order and law maintained. Regulative in spheres of conduct where clashes of interests and cross-purposes are likely to occur among the members of a society.

Law. When a conflict of claims occurs or a rule of social conduct is broken.

Law is a spurious concept because few, if any, customs are actually unsanctioned in any society.

A rule sanctioned by organized constraints. ... Later he gave authority and coercive sanctions a preeminent role in social control.

Political authority, legally vested power to establish norms, to take decisions, and to enforce them through the use of sanction by coercion.