“A command is distinguished from other significations of desire, not by the style in which the desire is signified, but by the power or purpose of the party to inflict an evil or pain in case the desire is disregarded.”

—  John Austin (legal philosopher)

Source: The Province of Jurisprudence Determined (1832), p. 6

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