Meaning of law-ways | Babel Free

Definitions

A community's specific set of laws and legal practices.

plural, plural-normally

Examples

“We have⟳ aimed at the development of a social science instrument for the recording and interpretation of law-ways among primitive peoples; the Cheyennes and their Way provide⟳ the subject material.”

“Indigenous Peoples' law-ways are similar throughout Australia and the world. We share⟳ a belief in the creation, a time in which the law itself was created.”

“Communitarian justice generally employs local or indigenous law-ways and not state law; is bound up with attempts to create⟳ a new religious or utopian social order⟳, advocates decentralization and the application of community norms instead of legal rules of procedure; and focuses on feelings and individual expression ...”

CEFR level