ABSTRACT
Professor Hart gave five factors which he thought had to co-exist to create a legal system. These are:
a) rules that forbid certain conduct and rules that compel certain conduct on pain of sanctions;
b) rules requiring people to compensate those whom they injure; c) rules stating what needs to be done in certain ‘mechanical’ areas of
law, such as making a contract or making a will; d) a system of courts to determine what the rules are, whether they
have been broken and what the appropriate sanction is; e) a body whose responsibility it is to make rules and amend or
repeal them when necessary.
