law
law
- n the collection of rules imposed by authority
civilization presupposes respect for the law - n legal document setting forth rules governing a particular kind of activity
there is a law against kidnapping - n a rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society
- n a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature
the laws of thermodynamics - n the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do
- n 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 - n the force of policemen and officers
the law came looking for him
- There are the beginnings here of a possible pattern in Cheney's thoughts--the suggestion that violations of law in the service of a greater national good are forgivable.
- After the law came into effect over the summer, several media outlets and journalists filed legal protests, including the radio station Ekho Moskvy and a Kaliningrad reporter whose .
- In the late autumn of 1886, four Harvard law students who believed that the Law School had "a message for the professional world" met to map strategy for a new venture: a law.