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law
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noun
a rule or set of rules, enforceable by the courts, regulating the government of a state, the relationship between the organs of government and the subjects of the state, and the relationship or conduct of subjects towards each other
a rule or body of rules made by the legislatureSee statute law
a rule or body of rules made by a municipal or other authoritySee bylaw
the condition and control enforced by such rules
(in combination)lawcourt
a rule of conducta law of etiquette
one of a set of rules governing a particular field of activitythe laws of tennis
the law
the legal or judicial system
the profession or practice of law
informalthe police or a policeman
a binding force or statementhis word is law
Also called: law of naturea generalization based on a recurring fact or event
the science or knowledge of law; jurisprudence
the principles originating and formerly applied only in courts of common lawCompare equity (def. 3)
a general principle, formula, or rule describing a phenomenon in mathematics, science, philosophy, etcthe laws of thermodynamics
a law unto itselfora law unto himselfa person or thing that is outside established laws
go to lawto resort to legal proceedings on some matter
lay down the lawto speak in an authoritative or dogmatic manner
reading the Laworreading of the LawJudaismthat part of the morning service on Sabbaths, festivals, and Mondays and Thursdays during which a passage is read from the Torah scrolls
take the law into one's own handsto ignore or bypass the law when redressing a grievance
Related formsRelated adjectives: judicial, jural, juridical, legal
Word Origin for law
Old English lagu, from Scandinavian; compare Icelandic lög (pl) things laid down, law
Old English lagu (plural laga, comb. form lah-) "law, ordinance, rule, regulation; district governed by the same laws," from Old Norse *lagu "law," collective plural of lag "layer, measure, stroke," literally "something laid down or fixed," from Proto-Germanic *lagan "put, lay" (see lay (v.)).
Replaced Old English æ and gesetnes, which had the same sense development as law. Cf. also statute, from Latin statuere; German Gesetz "law," from Old High German gisatzida; Lithuanian istatymas, from istatyti "set up, establish." In physics, from 1660s. Law and order have been coupled since 1796.
A statement that describes invariable relationships among phenomena under a specified set of conditions. Boyle's law, for instance, describes what will happen to the volume of an ideal gas if its pressure changes and its temperature remains the same. The conditions under which some physical laws hold are idealized (for example, there are no ideal gases in the real world), thus some physical laws apply universally but only approximately. See Note at hypothesis.
