law
法律,法,法律规定,法规
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Definitions
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- : 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.
- : 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, statutory law.
- : the controlling influence of such rules; the condition of society brought about by their observance: maintaining law and order.
- : a system or collection of such rules.
- : the department of knowledge concerned with these rules; jurisprudence: to study law.
- : the body of such rules concerned with a particular subject or derived from a particular source: commercial law.
- : an act of the supreme legislative body of a state or nation, as distinguished from the constitution.
- : the principles applied in the courts of common law, as distinguished from equity.
- : the profession that deals with law and legal procedure: to practice law.
- : legal action; litigation: to go to law.
- : a person, group, or agency acting officially to enforce the law: The law arrived at the scene soon after the alarm went off.
- : any rule or injunction that must be obeyed: Having a nourishing breakfast was an absolute law in our household.
- : a rule or principle of proper conduct sanctioned by conscience, concepts of natural justice, or the will of a deity: a moral law.
- : a rule or manner of behavior that is instinctive or spontaneous: the law of self-preservation.
- : a statement of a relation or sequence of phenomena invariable under the same conditions.a mathematical rule.
- : a principle based on the predictable consequences of an act, condition, etc.: the law of supply and demand.
- : 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: the laws of playwriting; the laws of grammar.
- : a commandment or a revelation from God.
- : Sometimes Law . a divinely appointed order or system.
- : the Law. Law of Moses.
- : the preceptive part of the Bible, especially of the New Testament, in contradistinction to its promises: the law of Christ.
- : 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.
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- : Chiefly Dialect. to sue or prosecute.
- : British. to expeditate.
Phrases
- law and order
- law of averages
- law of the jungle
- law unto oneself
- above suspicion (the law)
- lay down the law
- letter of the law
- long arm of the law
- Murphy's law
- possession is nine points of the law
- take the law into one's hands
- unwritten law
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
In Wisconsin, the Green Party effort to get on the ballot was boosted by help from some Republicans and a prominent law firm that does work for the GOP.
Most recently, he took a big shot at the traditional legal industry with Atrium, a law firm and legal software startup that raised big rounds of funding before shuttering earlier this year.
Fischer stressed that these updates, together with Breonna’s Law, are “substantial” and create a new level of scrutiny for obtaining search warrants.
Last October, President Jair Bolsonaro signed a law compelling federal bodies to share most of the data they hold on Brazilian citizens and consolidate it in a vast, centralized database.
Quinn has worked as an elections official in Virginia with von Spakovsky and has co-taught a law school course with him.
Unless there is a court decision that changes our law, we are OK.
Submission is set in a France seven years from now that is dominated by a Muslim president intent on imposing Islamic law.
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.
In Israel, however, a new law took effect January 1st that banned the use of underweight models.
We should have to admit that the new law does little or nothing to relieve such a situation.
He that seeketh the law, shall be filled with it: and he that dealeth deceitfully, shall meet with a stumblingblock therein.
To Harrison and his wife there was no distinction between the executive and judicial branches of the law.
Now this setting up of an orderly law-abiding self seems to me to imply that there are impulses which make for order.
These schools became affiliated Universities, but never equalled the Law University in importance.