law has definitions from the fields of law,work,philosophy,writing,government
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[ noun ] (law) the collection of rules imposed by authority

Synonyms

jurisprudence

Examples

"civilization presupposes respect for the law" "the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order"

Used in print

(Jaroslav Pelikan, The Shape of Death: life, death and...)

`` So_that the man should not have thoughts of grandeur , and become lifted_up , as if he had no lord , because of the dominion that had been given to him , and the freedom , fall into sin against God his Creator , overstepping his bounds , and take_up an attitude of self-conceited arrogance towards God , a law was given him by God , that he might know that he had for lord the lord of all .

(J. H. Hexter, "Thomas More: On the Margins...)

He is a trustee for the common good , however feeble the safeguards which the positive or municipal law of property provides against his misuse of that share of the common fund , wisely or unwisely , entrusted to his keeping .

In_contrast_to this Stoic patristic view , Utopia implies that the nature of man is such that to rely_on individual conscience to supply the deficiencies of municipal law is to embark on the bottomless sea of human sinfulness in a sieve .

(John Michael Ray, "Rhode Island's Reactions...)

Although admitting Brown 's guilt on legal grounds , Day said that , `` Brown is no common criminal ; his deed was not below , but above the law '' .

He recalled that in Rhode_Island a party opposed to the state 's condemnation of a man ( Thomas_W._Dorr ) proclaimed the state 's action as a violation of the law of the land and the principles of human liberty .

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[ noun ] (law,writing) legal document setting forth rules governing a particular kind of activity

Examples

"there is a law against kidnapping"

Used in print

(The Atlanta Constitution...)

The jury said it did find that many_of Georgia 's registration and election laws `` are outmoded or inadequate and often ambiguous '' .

It recommended that Fulton legislators act `` to have these laws studied and revised to the end of modernizing and improving them '' .

Implementation of Georgia 's automobile title law was also recommended by the outgoing jury .

It urged that the next Legislature `` provide enabling funds and re-set the effective date so_that an orderly implementation of the law may be effected '' .

The largest hurdle the Republicans would have to face is a state law which says that before making a first race , one of two alternative courses must be taken :

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[ noun ] a rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society

Synonyms

natural_law

Used in print

(Jaroslav Pelikan, The Shape of Death: life, death and...)

It is the wages of sin , and its sting is the law .

(Frieda Arkin, "The Light of the Sea," in The...)

Procreation , expansion , proliferation - these are the laws of living_things , with the penalty for not obeying them the ultimate in punishments : oblivion .

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[ noun ] a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature

Synonyms

law_of_nature

Examples

: "the laws of thermodynamics"

Used in print

(Bern Dibner, "Oerstad and the Discovery of Electro...)

The great resemblance between electrical and magnetic_attractions and repulsions and the similarity of their laws necessarily would bring_about this comparison .

(The Rev. John A. O'Brien, "Let's Take Birth Control...)

Moreover , man may_not supplant or frustrate the physical arrangements established by God , who through the law of rhythm has provided a natural method for the control of conception .

Believing that God is the Author of this law and of all laws_of_nature , Roman_Catholics believe that they are obliged to obey those laws , not frustrate or mock them .

(L. Don Leet and Florence J. Leet, editors, The World of...)

The greater the depth of the water , the greater is the speed of the wave ; Lagrange 's law says that its velocity is equal to the square_root of the product of the depth times the acceleration due_to gravity .

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[ noun ] (law,philosophy) the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do

Used in print

(Bern Dibner, "Oerstad and the Discovery of Electro...)

While Hans devoted himself to the sciences of medicine , physics , and astronomy , his brother studied law .

(Morton A. Kaplan and Nicholas de B. Katzenbach,...)

National identification was reflected jurisprudentially in law theories which incorporated this Hegelian abstraction and saw law , domestic and international , simply as its formal reflection .

In the international community this reduced law to Jellinek 's auto_limitation .

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[ noun ] (law,work) the learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system

Synonyms

practice_of_law

Examples

"he studied law at Yale"

Used in print

(Tristram Coffin, Not to the Swift....)

When he was in the war , he was in Law or Supplies or something like that , and an old buddy of his told me he would come down on Sundays to the Pentagon and read the citations for medals - just like the one we sent_in for Trig - and go_away with a real glow .

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[ noun ] (law,government) the force of policemen and officers

Examples

"the law came looking for him"

Used in print

(Jim Berry Pearson, The Maxwell Land Grant....)

And the law virtually ignored the situation .

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