Discrepancies between military laws and practice had three distinct causes
Evidence
Specifically, it is concerned with the question of whether discrepancies arose as a result of misreadings of the law by government officials, scribes or bureaucrats, whether they were caused by internal contradictions in the letter of the law itself that could only (or more easily) be detected on implementation, or whether they were the result of resistance by those on whom the law was applied. — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 115
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships