law

law
[[t]lɔ[/t]]
n.
1) law the principles and regulations established by a government or other authority and applicable to a people, whether by legislation or by custom enforced by judicial decision
2) law any written or positive rule or collection of rules prescribed under the authority of the state or nation, as by the people in its constitution
3) law a system or collection of such rules
4) law the condition of society brought about by observance of such rules:
maintaining law and order[/ex]
5) law the field of knowledge concerned with these rules; jurisprudence:
to study law[/ex]
6) law the body of such rules concerned with a particular subject:
commercial law; tax law[/ex]
7) law an act of the highest legislative body of a state or nation
8) law the profession that deals with law and legal procedure:
to practice law[/ex]
9) law legal action; litigation:
to go to law[/ex]
10) law an agent or agency that enforces the law, esp. the police:
The law arrived to quell the riot[/ex]
11) any rule or injunction that must be obeyed
12) a rule or principle of proper conduct sanctioned by conscience, concepts of natural justice, or the will of a deity:
a moral law[/ex]
13) a rule or manner of behavior that is instinctive or spontaneous:
the law of self-preservation[/ex]
14) (in philosophy, science, etc.)
a) a statement of a relation or sequence of phenomena invariable under the same conditions
b) a mathematical rule
15) a principle based on the predictable consequences of an act, condition, etc.:
the law of supply and demand[/ex]
16) a rule, principle, or convention regarded as governing the structure or the relationship of an element in the structure of something, as of a language or work of art:
the laws of grammar[/ex]
17) a commandment or a revelation from God
18) (sometimes cap.) a divinely appointed order or system
19) jud the Law
Law of Moses
20) the preceptive part of the Bible, esp. of the New Testament, in contradistinction to its promises:
the law of Christ[/ex]
21) law to institute legal action; sue
22) cvb Chiefly Dial. to sue or prosecute
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Etymology: bef. 1000; ME law(e), lagh(e), OE lagu < ON *lagu, early pl. of lag layer, laying in order

From formal English to slang. 2014.

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Synonyms:
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