Meaning of law | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Acronym of light anti-tank weapon.
   abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
2. A surname originating as a patronymic.
3. A topographic surname from Old English, perhaps originally meaning someone who lives near a burial mound.
   countable, uncountable
4. A tumulus of stones.
   obsolete
5. Synonym of Torah: the five Books of Moses, particularly the commandments in it, as well as their specification in the Mishnah and their further interpretation in later religious literature.
   Judaism
6. straight (not crooked or bent; having a constant direction throughout its length)
7. A score; share of expense; legal charge.
   dialectal, obsolete
8. A surname from Chinese.
9. The body of binding rules and regulations, customs, and standards established in a community by its legislative and judicial authorities.
   countable, uncountable, usually, with-definite-article
10. A diminutive of the male given name Lawrence.
11. a conical hill
    Scotland, countable, uncountable
12. A hill.
    Northern-England, Scotland, archaic
13. straight; upright (perfectly horizontal or vertical; not diagonal or oblique)
14. the commandments in the Books of Moses, sometimes seen as transcended by Christ
15. A totally independent operator: An executive who is a law unto herself.
16. The body of such rules that pertain to a particular topic.
    countable, uncountable, usually, with-definite-article
17. A village in South Lanarkshire council area, Scotland, United Kingdom (OS grid ref NS8252).
    countable, uncountable
18. right, right-hand (designating the side of the body which is positioned to the east if one is facing north)
19. the commandments and moral principles that are binding for Christians, such as the Decalogue, the teachings of the New Testament, the Church Fathers, etc.
20. To mete out justice as one sees fit without due recourse to law enforcement agencies or the courts.
21. Common law, as contrasted with equity.
    countable, uncountable, usually, with-definite-article
22. correct, appropriate, right
23. John, 1671–1729, Scottish financier.
24. A binding regulation or custom established in a community in this way.
    countable, uncountable
25. right (a legal, just or moral entitlement)
26. A statement that describes what will happen in all cases under a specified set of conditions. Laws describe an invariable relationship among phenomena. Boyle's law, for instance, describes what will happen to the volume of a gas if its pressure changes and its temperature remains the same. See Note at hypothesis.
27. A rule, such as:
    broadly, countable, uncountable
28. Any rule that must or should be obeyed, concerning behaviours and their consequences. (Compare mores.)
    broadly, countable, uncountable
29. A rule or principle regarding the construction of language or art.
    broadly, countable, uncountable
30. a signature of a proxy, one who is not party to the transaction at hand. — allographic, adj.
    adj
31. A statement (in physics, etc) of an (observed, established) order or sequence or relationship of phenomena which is invariable under certain conditions. (Compare theory.)
    broadly, countable, uncountable
32. the right of a nation at war to destroy the property of a neutral, subject to indemnification.
33. A statement (of relation) that is true under specified conditions; a mathematical or logical rule.
    broadly, countable, uncountable
34. a state or condition of individuals or society characterized by an absence or breakdown of social and legal norms and values, as in the case of an uprooted people. — anomic, adj.
    adj
35. Any statement of the relation of acts and conditions to their consequences.
    broadly, countable, uncountable
36. a real or apparent contradiction in a statute. — antinomic, antinomian, adj.
    adj
37. A sound law; a regular change in the pronunciation of a language.
    broadly, countable, uncountable
38. the theological doctrine maintaining that Christians are freed from both moral and civil law by God’s gift of grace. — antinomian, antinomist, n.
    n
39. One of the official rules of cricket as codified by the its (former) governing body, the MCC.
    broadly, countable, uncountable
40. the solemn affirmation of the truth of a statement. — asseverator, n. — asseverative, adj.
    n
41. The control and order brought about by the observance of such rules.
    countable, uncountable
42. A person or group that act(s) with authority to uphold such rules and order (for example, one or more police officers).
    countable, informal, uncountable
43. The profession that deals with such rules (as lawyers, judges, police officers, etc).
    countable, uncountable
44. Jurisprudence, the field of knowledge which encompasses these rules.
    countable, uncountable
45. Litigation; legal action (as a means of maintaining or restoring order, redressing wrongs, etc).
    countable, uncountable
46. An allowance of distance or time (a head start) given to a weaker (human or animal) competitor in a race, to make the race more fair.
    countable, uncommon, uncountable
47. A mode of operation of the flight controls of a fly-by-wire aircraft.
    countable, uncountable
48. One of two metaphysical forces ruling the world in some fantasy settings, also called order, and opposed to chaos.
    countable, uncountable
49. An oath sworn before a court, especially disclaiming a debt. (Chiefly in the phrases "wager of law", "wage one's law", "perform one's law", "lose one's law".)
    countable, historical, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Not unnaturally, "Auntie" took this communication in bad part.[…]Next day she[…]tried to recover her ward by the hair of the head. Then, thwarted, the wretched creature went to the police for help; she was versed in the law, and perhaps had spared no pains to keep on good terms with the local constabulary.”

“Here one comes upon an all-important English trait: the respect for constitutionalism and legality, the belief in "the law" as something above the State and above the individual, something which is cruel and stupid, of course, but at any rate incorruptible. It is not that anyone imagines the law to be just. Everyone knows that there is one law for the rich and another for the poor. But no one accepts the implications of this, everyone takes it for granted that the law, such as it is, will be respected, and feels a sense of outrage when it is not.”

“The courts interpret the law but should not make it.”

“In theory, entrapment is against the law.”

“property law”

“commercial hunting and fishing law”

“There is a law against importing wallabies.”

“A new law forbids driving on that road.”

“The court ruled that the executive order was not law and nullified it.”

“As a political system democracy seems to me extraordinarily foolish,[…]. My servant is, so far as I am concerned, welcome to as many votes as he can get.[…]I do not suppose that it matters much in reality whether laws are made by dukes or cornerboys, but I like, as far as possible, to associate with gentlemen in private life.”

“"Do unto others as you wish them to do unto you" is a good law to follow.”

“the law of self-preservation”

“the laws of playwriting and poetry”

“The normal pronoun to use with "spirit" would be "it." But Jesus breaks the law of grammar and says not "when it," but "when he."”

“Observing pi is easier than studying physical phenomena, because you can prove things in mathematics, whereas you can't prove anything in physics. And, unfortunately, the laws of physics change once every generation.”

“the laws of thermodynamics”

“Newton's third law of motion states that to every action there is always an equal and opposite reaction.”

“This is one of several laws derived from his general theory expounded in the Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica.”

“Mathematical laws can be proved purely through mathematics, without scientific experimentation.”

“the law of scarcity”

“the law of supply and demand”

“Grimm's law”

“Dahl's law”

“They worked to maintain law and order.”

“It was a territory without law, marked by violence.”

“Here comes the law — run!”

“then the law arrived on the scene”

“That was Joe's first confrontation with "The Law" / Naturally, we were easy on him / One of our friendly counsellors gave him a donut / And told him to stick closer / To church-oriented social activities”

“He is studying for a career in law.”

“She has practiced law in New York for twenty years.”

“She went to university to study law.”

“They were quick to go to law.”

“After a few minutes' waiting, two well-known runners, chosen for the hares, buckled on the four bags filled with scent, compared their watches with those of young Brooke and Thome, and started off at a long, slinging trot across the fields in the direction of Barby. Then the hounds clustered round Thome, who explained shortly, "They're to have six minutes' law."”

“normal law; alternate law; direct law”

“As to the depriving the defendant of waging his law, it was thought, the practice merited discouragement, as a temptation to perjury.”

“But, before the defendant takes the oath, the plaintiff is called by the crier thrice; and if he do not appear he becomes nonsuited, and then the defendant goes quit without taking his oath; and if he appear, and the defendant swear that he owes the plaintiff nothing, and the compurgators give it upon oath, that they believe he swears true, the plaintiff is barred for ever; for when a person has waged his law, it is as much as if a verdict had passed against the plaintiff; if the plaintiff do not appear to hear the defendant perform his law, so that he is nonsuit, he is not barred, but may bring a new action.”

“A withdrawal from a wager of law was an admission of the point as to which the law was waged; the defaulter also incurred a fine (i, 297).”

“[Y]ou might climb the Law, where the whale's jawbone stood landmark in the buzzing wind, and behold the face of many counties, and the smoke and spires of many towns, and the sails of distant ships.”

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