Meaning of in the name of the law | Babel Free

Definitions

By the demand of a legal authority.

Equivalents

Examples

“The following passage from his autobiography is interesting, as showing the impression which the "barbarous deeds done in the name of the law" made upon his mind, even in boyhood: […]”

“Shouting "stop in the name of the law" is wasteful when a suspect obviously is fleeing the law.”

“At the same time, once things are done in the name of the law, it no longer matters what they are, for they are legal, and any further scrutiny of their nature is unnecessary—indeed, may be construed as subversive.”

“Those soliciting, expediting, or executing arbitrary orders ought to be punished; but every citizen called or seized in the name of the law ought to obey instantly: one becomes guilty by resisting.”

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