Definitions for Law

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Spelling: [law]

IPA: /lɔ/

Law is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 13 anagrams from letters in Law (alw).

Definitions for Law

noun

1. the principles and regulations established in a community by some authority and applicable to its people, whether in the form of legislation or of custom and policies recognized and enforced by judicial decision.
2. any written or positive rule or collection of rules prescribed under the authority of the state or nation, as by the people in its constitution. Compare bylaw, statute law.
3. the controlling influence of such rules; the condition of society brought about by their observance:
4. a system or collection of such rules.
5. the department of knowledge concerned with these rules; jurisprudence:
6. the body of such rules concerned with a particular subject or derived from a particular source:
7. an act of the supreme legislative body of a state or nation, as distinguished from the constitution.
8. the principles applied in the courts of common law, as distinguished from equity.
9. the profession that deals with law and legal procedure:
10. legal action; litigation:
11. a person, group, or agency acting officially to enforce the law:
12. any rule or injunction that must be obeyed:
13. a rule or principle of proper conduct sanctioned by conscience, concepts of natural justice, or the will of a deity:
14. a rule or manner of behavior that is instinctive or spontaneous:
15. a statement of a relation or sequence of phenomena invariable under the same conditions. a mathematical rule.
16. a principle based on the predictable consequences of an act, condition, etc.:
17. a rule, principle, or convention regarded as governing the structure or the relationship of an element in the structure of something, as of a language or work of art:
18. a commandment or a revelation from God.
19. (sometimes initial capital letter) a divinely appointed order or system.
20. the Law, Law of Moses.
21. the preceptive part of the Bible, especially of the New Testament, in contradistinction to its promises:
22. British Sports. an allowance of time or distance given a quarry or competitor in a race, as the head start given a fox before the hounds are set after it.
23. Andrew Bonar [bon-er] /ˈbɒn ər/ (Show IPA), 1858–1923, English statesman, born in Canada: prime minister 1922–23.
24. John, 1671–1729, Scottish financier.
25. William, 1686–1761, English clergyman and devotional writer.
26. a specialized dictionary covering terms used in the various branches of the legal profession, as civil law, criminal law, and corporate law. A comprehensive legal dictionary adds to its body of standard English entries many words and phrases that have made their way into modern legal practice from law French and Latin and are rarely found in a general English monolingual dictionary. Such a specialized dictionary is useful not only for law students and for attorneys themselves, but for members of the lay public who require legal services. Legal dictionaries published in print follow the normal practice of sorting entry terms alphabetically, while electronic dictionaries, such as the online Dictionary of Law on Dictionary.com, allow direct, immediate access to a search term.

Idioms

1. be a law to / unto oneself, to follow one's own inclinations, rules of behavior, etc.; act independently or unconventionally, especially without regard for established mores.
2. lay down the law, to state one's views authoritatively. to give a command in an imperious manner:
3. take the law into one's own hands, to administer justice as one sees fit without recourse to the usual law enforcement or legal processes:

interjection

1. (used as an exclamation expressing astonishment.)

adjective, adverb, noun

1. low1 .

verb (used with object)

1. Chiefly Dialect. to sue or prosecute.
2. British. (formerly) to expeditate (an animal).

verb (used with or without object), noun

1. low2 .

Origin of Law

before 1000; Middle English law(e), lagh(e), Old English lagu Old Norse *lagu, early plural of lag layer, stratum, a laying in order, fixed tune, (in collective sense) law; akin to Examples for Law

There, by their law of entail, the same process is unswifter,—yet does it unvary.

If he should do so, the law would compel him to return her magnificent dowry.

A few days later, Bush replied, “We will uphold the law in Florida.”

To those who agreed with him, Bush pledged that the law against same-sex marriage would remain intact.

Obviously, the first obligation of all liberal democratic governments is to enforce the rule of law.

The commencement of a law and parliamentary library has been made.

Submission is set in a France seven years from now that is dominated by a Muslim president intent on imposing Islamic law.

There was a Spartan law forbidding masters to emancipate their slaves.

He needs a clerk for his law matters, and the Dean said he would speak of me to him.

Unless there is a court decision that changes our law, we are OK.