LAW
Definition:
- [noun] legal document setting forth rules governing a particular kind of activity; "there is a law against kidnapping"
- [noun] the collection of rules imposed by authority; "civilization presupposes respect for the law"; "the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order"
Synonyms: jurisprudence
- [noun] a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature; "the laws of thermodynamics"
Synonyms: of nature
- [noun] a rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society
Synonyms: natural
- [noun] the learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system; "he studied law at Yale"
Synonyms: practice of
- [noun] the force of policemen and officers; "the law came looking for him"
Synonyms: police, police force, constabulary
- [noun] the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do
Synonyms: jurisprudence, legal philosophy
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Related Words:
- anti-drug law
- anti-racketeering law, Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, RICO Act, RICO
- antitrust legislation, antitrust law
- statute of limitations
- fundamental law, organic law, constitution
- public law
- blue law
- blue sky law
- gag law
- homestead law
- poor law
- Riot Act
- prohibition
- administrative law
- canon law, ecclesiastical law
- civil law
- common law, case law, precedent
- international law, law of nations
- law of the land
- maritime law, admiralty law
- martial law
- mercantile law, commercial law, law merchant
- military law
- Mosaic law, Law of Moses
- shariah, shariah law, sharia, sharia law, Islamic law
- statutory law
- securities law
- tax law
- all-or-none law
- principle, rule
- Archimedes' principle, law of Archimedes
- Avogadro's law, Avogadro's hypothesis
- Bernoulli's law, law of large numbers
- Benford's law
- Bose-Einstein statistics
- Boyle's law, Mariotte's law
- Coulomb's Law
- Dalton's law, Dalton's law of partial pressures, law of partial pressures
- distribution law
- equilibrium law, law of chemical equilibrium
- Fechner's law, Weber-Fechner law
- Fermi-Dirac statistics
- Gay-Lussac's law, Charles's law, law of volumes
- Henry's law
- Hooke's law
- Hubble's law, Hubble law
- Kepler's law, Kepler's law of planetary motion
- Kirchhoff's laws
- law of averages
- law of constant proportion, law of definite proportions
- law of diminishing returns
- law of effect
- law of equivalent proportions, law of reciprocal proportions
- law of gravitation, Newton's law of gravitation
- law of multiple proportions, Dalton's law
- law of mass action
- law of thermodynamics
- Mendel's law
- Newton's law of motion, Newton's law, law of motion
- Ohm's law
- Pascal's law, Pascal's law of fluid pressures
- Pauli exclusion principle, exclusion principle
- periodic law, Mendeleev's law
- Planck's law
- Planck's radiation law
- principle of relativity
- Stevens' law, power law, Stevens' power law
- Weber's law
- divine law
- principle
- sound law
- Europol, European Law Enforcement Organisation
- gendarmerie, gendarmery
- Mutawa'een, Mutawa
- Royal Canadian Mounted Police, RCMP, Mounties
- Scotland Yard, New Scotland Yard
- secret police
- Schutzstaffel, SS
- posse, posse comitatus
- contract law
- corporation law
- matrimonial law
- patent law
