According to Salmond, law is a body of principles that is given recognition by the state and applied in the administration of justice.
The constituent elements of which the law is made up are not laws but rules of law or legal principles. He believed that if a just society is to be maintained, it is necessary to add compulsions so as to compel the people to walk on the desired path.
Two things provide this control:-
1. Compulsion created by law that is fear of being penalized if they do not follow the law.
2. The same function is performed by the fear of the public opinion.
This theory has got some cons which are as follows:-
1. Justice is the end and law is only a medium to realize it can be questioned in case of unjust law such as SARFAESI Act.
2. The pursuit of justice is not the sole purpose of law; the purpose evolves over time and can even change.
3. There is contradiction in the theory itself. Justice is a universal concept whose analysis should not be constrainec by national boundaries.
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