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[ noun ] insuring obedience to the laws

Used in print

(U.S. Reports. Volume 364. Cases Adjudged in the...)

By making inroads in the name of law_enforcement into the protection which Congress has afforded to the marriage relationship , the Court today continues in the path charted by the recent decision in Wyatt_v._United_States , 362_U._S._525 , where the Court held that , under_the_circumstances of that case , a wife could be compelled to testify against her husband over her objection .

One need not waver in his belief in virile law_enforcement to insist that there are other things in American life which are also of great importance , and to which even law_enforcement must accommodate itself .

One need not waver in his belief in virile law_enforcement to insist that there are other things in American life which are also of great importance , and to which even law_enforcement must accommodate itself .

(Breni James, Nights of the Kill....)

`` Patrolman_Accacia is an alert and conscientious law-enforcement officer .

Related terms

enforcement vigilantism law

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