Prof. Dr. M. Azizur Rahman

Founder of Uttara University

Common Law

People are social being. They must be able to make a difference between good
and bad. However, everybody are not equally good or equally bad. Some are
better than others. Others are worse than some other. All it means that human
being can also behave like animal. It is our social responsibility to aware the
good people and to negatively sanction or punish the bad people. However, we
cannot arbitrarily punish people. Higher offence receives higher punishment as
it requires an expensive defense. Similarly, lower offence is accompanied by
little punishment. All it means, the crimes and punishment vary from zero (0) to
infinite (). This requires us to frame rules and regulation of various degrees for
different kinds of crime. The highest form of rules and regulations are called
law. The commonness of punishment for the common offence as is found as the
precedent is called common law.

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