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Sources of laware the materials and processes out of which law is developed. In modern nation states,The sources of law either comes from the written law or the unwritten law . Constitution, statutes, case law, and regulations issued by government agencies. Sources of law for public international law and religious law differ, however, from the primary law of individual countries. The natural law theory argues that some rules objectively existing in the nature also are source of law, while legal positivism argues that only the rules made by sovereignty can be the sources of law.
There are three main sources of law in the world. They are
- legislation (it includes constitution and statutes which are prepared by Parliament)
- case law or decisions of the higher court
- customary law or custum
- opinions of the writters (eg. J.L.Peeris)
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