ABSTRACT
A statute (thesis) passed by a legislature may have all the attributes of a nomos, and is likely to have them if deliberately modelled after the nomos. The task of organizing particular services necessarily produces an entirely different conception of the nature of the rules to be laid down from that produced by the task of providing rules as foundation of a spontaneous order. The term ‘administrative law’ is further used to describe ‘administrative powers over persons and property’, not consisting of universal rules of just conduct but aiming at particular foreseeable results, and therefore necessarily involving discrimination and discretion. ‘Social legislation’, may refer to the provision by government of certain services which are of special importance to some unfortunate minorities, the weak or those unable to provide for themselves. Such service functions of government a wealthy community may decide to provide for a minority – either on moral grounds or as an insurance against contingencies which may affect anybody.
