Laws Before laws were written, there was no sure way of knowing what was permitted and what was forbidden.

Laws
    Before laws were written, there was no sure way of knowing what was permitted and what was forbidden. One judge might apply one set of rules to a case / while another judge might apply completely different rules to a similar case. / It all depended on the personal judgment of one person. / Today we follow the custom of recording our laws. / Rules passed by our lawmakers are printed and available for everyone to see. / Unless laws are publicly available, / we do not regard them as binding. /