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The English word "law" refers to limits upon various forms of behaviour.\nSome laws are descriptive: they simply describe how people usually behave.\nOther laws are prescriptive - they prescribe how people ought to behave.\nIn all societies, relations between people are regulated by prescriptive laws.\nSome of them are customs - that is, informal rules of social and moral be-haviour.\nSome are rules we accept if we belong to particular social institutions, such as religious, educational and cultural groups.\nAnd some laws are made by nations and enforced against all citizens within their power.\nThe rules of social institutions are more formal than customs.\nThey carry penalties for those who break them.\nThey are not, however, enforceable by any political authority.\nCustoms need not be made by governments, and they need not be written down.\nHowever, when governments make laws for their citizens, they use a system of courts backed by the power of the police.
