Luật pháp có tính dân tộc, nghĩa là phù hợp với truyền thống, tập quán, giá trị đạo đức của các dân tộc trong đất nước. Bản chất này cho phép luật pháp gần gũi với dân chúng, được dân chúng ủng hộ, do đó mà có hiệu quả điều chỉnh lên các quan hệ xã hội. Luật pháp có tính thời đại, nghĩa là phù hợp với trình độ phát triển kinh tế của đất nước, có khả năng hội nhập với luật pháp quốc tế | 284 Forms of Sanctions and Remedies of expression in a law can also facilitate interpretation and fact-finding required for the application of law. Most law is implemented in developed Western societies through voluntary self-direction by addressees - private citizens entities officials and others - in accord with reasons for determinate action or decision that these addressees have constructed under statutes contracts and other species of When addressees voluntarily so act there is no need for the state to impose sanctions remedies or the like then and there. Legally well-informed addressees who voluntarily implement the law may be the most important material components of any system. In tolerably well-ordered societies a major factor that influences addressees voluntarily to act in accord with rules and other valid law is the general respect they have for the law and for the pre-emptive force of particular legal reasons for determinate action and decision that can be seen to arise under the law. In regard to most laws in these societies such respect derives largely from the sense that addressees have that law is for the common good that particular laws themselves are justified and that the system of law and its manner of operation are acceptable. Relatedly addressees also respect general duties of societal membership many of which are recognized in law. One of these duties is simply the duty to abide by the law though this is not an absolute duty. Still another factor is this. Those who might be adversely affected by nonperformance of a legal duty often stand ready to assert claims of right thereby inducing compliance. Various nonlegal factors also account for voluntary compliance in a tolerably well-ordered society. Perceived self-interest in following the law is one such factor. Officials readily perceive that it is in their interest to do their jobs according to law. Ordinary citizens and other inhabitants perceive that voluntary compliance with law is .
