There are different schools (or philosophies) concerning what law is all about. “law.” In a nation, the law can serve to (1) keep the peace, (2) maintain the status quo, (3) preserve individual rights, (4) protect minorities against majorities, (5) promote social justice, and (6) provide for orderly social change. That which must be obeyed and followed by citizens subject to sanctions or legal consequence is a law.”Black’s Law Dictionary, 6th ed., s.v. Law is a word that means different things at different times. Black’s Law Dictionary says that law is “a body of rules of action or conduct prescribed by controlling authority, and having binding legal force. Other under penalized violations range from stealing cable TV and scalping tickets to illegal fishing and hunting. According to one estimate, the average American driver deserves ten speeding tickets a day. In fact, being a truly law-abiding citizen is virtually out of the question.
After all, in order to be law-abiding innkeepers (or just plain citizens), we must negotiate a vast web of constitutional, federal, regulatory, and state and local law criminal, civil, and common law substantive and procedural law public and private law and business law, which includes contract, product-liability, patent, consumer-protection, environmental, employment and labor, insurance, cyber, agency, and a host of other forms of law. Many people no doubt find this comparison at least as true today as it was in Swift’s time. The great Irish satirist Jonathan Swift likened laws to cobwebs, because they seemed to stretch in every direction to catch innocent flies while utterly failing to stop wasps and other creatures responsible for much greater crimes against human comfort.
In the eighteenth century, when the legal and regulatory environment of everything was a lot simpler than it is today.
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