Word Finder - laws

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The body of binding rules and regulations, customs and standards established in a community by its legislative and judicial authorities.

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entrapment is against the law

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A binding regulation or custom established in a community in this way.

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A new law forbids driving on that road.

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(more generally) A rule, such as:

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The control and order brought about by the observance of such rules.

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It was a territory without law, marked by violence.

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A person or group that act(s) with authority to uphold such rules and order (for example, one or more police officers).

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Here comes the law — run!

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The profession that deals with such rules (as lawyers, judges, police officers, etc).

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He is studying for a career in law.

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Jurisprudence, the field of knowledge which encompasses these rules.

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She went to university to study law.

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Litigation, legal action (as a means of maintaining or restoring order, redressing wrongs, etc).

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They were quick to go to law.

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An allowance of distance or time (a head start) given to a weaker (human or animal) competitor in a race, to make the race more fair.

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One of two metaphysical forces ruling the world in some fantasy settings, also called order, and opposed to chaos.

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An oath sworn before a court, especially disclaiming a debt. (Chiefly in the phrases "wager of law", "wage one's law", "perform one's law", "lose one's law".)

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To work as a lawyer; to practice law.

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To prosecute or sue (someone), to litigate.

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To rule over (with a certain effect) by law; govern.

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To enforce the law.

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To subject to legal restrictions.

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A tumulus of stones.

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A hill.

It is easy to write laws, but difficult to rule....

Different laws apply in different jurisdictions.

There are ancient laws that forbid it.

It's against the Immortal laws.

There are many laws but no one to carry out the old ones.

What kind of deal did she make with Darkyn to rewrite the mating laws of the time-before-time?

The necessity of laws and penalties had to be explained to her.

Gabriel's matter-of-fact talk of magic and laws older than time hadn't clarified much, except that he believed she belonged to him.

There are laws to protect women if a husband is abusive.

It's one of the few Wartime laws I agreed with.

Fortunately, the compounds at first examined by the chemists engaged in verifying these laws were comparatively simple, so that the whole numbers referred to above were small.

Give us a few days to learn what sort of laws you will make for us, and then we will say whether we can submit to them or not.

They were men who made the laws, and much depended upon their wisdom.

They form a union and get laws passed that no burgers can be flipped except by a union member.

They codify laws regarding libel and slander.

After that they took his right hand, placed it on something, and told him to hold a pair of compasses to his left breast with the other hand and to repeat after someone who read aloud an oath of fidelity to the laws of the Order.

Not surprising, since they made all the laws.

The laws from the time-before-time are absolute.

I created you and broke laws older than time to do it!

A partial exception to this rule is found in Algeria, where all laws in force in France before the conquest of the country are also (in theory, not in practice) in force in Algeria.

Then he told them what laws he would require them to obey.

Here in Dr. Bell's laboratory, or in the fields on the shore of the great Bras d'Or, I have spent many delightful hours listening to what he had to tell me about his experiments, and helping him fly kites by means of which he expects to discover the laws that shall govern the future air-ship.

The harp is the travelling patterer for the Universe's Insurance Company, recommending its laws, and our little goodness is all the assessment that we pay.

The dread and guilt at the pit of her stomach were countered by the confusion of knowing that she'd fallen into the grip of the Immortal laws first with Gabriel then with Darkyn.

He might at least explain what these laws were that condemned her to Darkyn.

She's his mate by Immortal laws, and we both know how seriously he takes his duty.

The deity you were in a past life started the chain of events that put us here by breaking laws from the time-before-time.

I suppose letting someone into a guest's room is against a bunch of innkeeper laws but considering the circumstances, I'll stick my neck out.

My sainted daddy used to say there are two things in life you don't want to see, sausage being made and laws being passed.

The laws which govern particles of matter in the inorganic world govern them likewise if they are joined into an organism.

One of the results of these investigations was to extend the meaning of the word mechanism, and comprise under it all laws which obtain in the phenomenal world, not excepting the phenomena of life and mind.

But, in attempting to make this conception quite clear and thinkable, we are forced to represent the connexion of things as a universal substance, the essence of which we conceive as a system of laws which underlies everything and in its own self connects everything, but imperceptible, and known to us merely through the impressions it produces on us, which we call things.

If chemical compounds can be proved by experiment to obey these laws, then the atomic theory acquires a high degree of probability; if they are contradicted by experiment then the atomic theory must be abandoned, or very much modified.

The above gives some idea of the evidence that has been accumulated in favour of the laws of chemical combination, laws which can be deduced from the atomic theory.

By his exposition of the political history of the kingdom, based on a study of its laws and institutions and of the legal conflicts between the state and the court of Rome, Pietro Giannone was the initiator of what has been since known as civil history.

Vico held God to be the ruler of the world of nations, but ruling, not as the providence of the middle ages by means of continued miracles, but as He rules nature, by means of natural laws.

In the former the author sets forth the analytical process by which the laws he discovered were deduced from facts.

In the second he not only enlarges his matter and gives multiplied applications of his ideas, but also follows the synthetic method, first expounding the laws he had discovered and then proving them by the facts to which they are applied.

All the phenomena, forces and laws of nature, together with mental conceptions, were alike personified.

With the help of William Smith (1728-1793), the New York historian, William Livingston prepared a digest of the laws of New York for the period 1691-1756, which was published in two volumes (1752 and 1762).

Laws to secure this object have been passed, but funds are lacking for their execution on a sufficiently large scale.

He also made important contributions to the mathematical theory of electrodynamics, and in papers published in 1845 and 1847 established mathematically the laws of the induction of electric currents.

Fermat, Roberval and Desargues took exception in their various ways to the methods employed in the geometry, and to the demonstrations of the laws of refraction given in the Dioptrics and Meteors.

The disturbing conditions of will, life and organic forces are eliminated from the problem; he starts with the clear and distinct idea of extension, figured and moved, and thence by mathematical laws he gives a hypothetical explanation of all things.

It proposes to set forth the genesis of the existing universe from principles which can be plainly Lh understood, and according to the acknowledged laws of the transmission of movement.

Descartes has laid down three laws of nature, and seven secondary laws regarding impact.

Mitchell (1803-1884), who prepared a code that was immediately adopted in Scotland as the standard laws.

The end ditch within the limits of the space is, according to Scottish laws, regarded as part of the green, a regulation which prejudices the general acceptance of those laws.

Iulis was the birthplace of the lyric poets Simonides and Bacchylides, the philosophers Prodicus and Ariston, and the physician Erasistratus; the excellence of its laws was so generally recognized that the title of Cean Laws passed into a proverb.

The jobars superintend the execution of the laws, collect fines and administer capital punishment; they are in contact with the buluk-bashi, or resident representative of the tribe at Scutari, who forms the only link between the mountaineers and the Turkish government.