ABSTRACT
Law, as a product of historical development, is integrated in culture; in other words: interrelated with its other elements. The correlation between law and the other elements of culture may be either an "external association," based on the fact that certain causes produced simultaneously this aspect of law and that cultural formation; or "causal-functional integration" based on a direct causal connection between law and certain elements of culture. The social functions of law may be regarded from two points of view: that of individuals as group-members and that of social groups consisting of a number of members whose natural drives are to be socialized. Law is, to a certain degree, a substitute for a weakening code of pure ethics. There was no necessity for law within a truly Christian community. The regulation of the aesthetic and intellectual elements in culture by law may vary from zero to one.
