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• WordNet 3.6
  • n law the learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system "he studied law at Yale"
  • n law a rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society
  • n law a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature "the laws of thermodynamics"
  • n law the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do
  • n law legal document setting forth rules governing a particular kind of activity "there is a law against kidnapping"
  • n law the force of policemen and officers "the law came looking for him"
  • n law the collection of rules imposed by authority "civilization presupposes respect for the law","the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order"
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Limbs of the Law

MR. BONAR LAW PACKS HIS TRUNKS

Seeing Ourselves in the Looking-Glass of God's Law

• Interesting fact: The triangular shape that Toblerone chocolates are packaged in, is protected by law
• • interj Law An exclamation of mild surprise.
  • Law An oath, as in the presence of a court.
  • Law An organic rule, as a constitution or charter, establishing and defining the conditions of the existence of a state or other organized community.
  • Law Any edict, decree, order, ordinance, statute, resolution, judicial, decision, usage, etc., or recognized, and enforced, by the controlling authority.
  • Law Collectively, the whole body of rules relating to one subject, or emanating from one source; -- including usually the writings pertaining to them, and judicial proceedings under them; as, divine law; English law; Roman law; the law of real property; insurance law.
  • Law In arts, works, games, etc.: The rules of construction, or of procedure, conforming to the conditions of success; a principle, maxim; or usage; as, the laws of poetry, of architecture, of courtesy, or of whist.
  • Law In general, a rule of being or of conduct, established by an authority able to enforce its will; a controlling regulation; the mode or order according to which an agent or a power acts. "These are the statutes and judgments and laws , which the Lord made.""The law of thy God, and the law of the King.""As if they would confine the Interminable . . . Who made our laws to bind us, not himself.""His mind his kingdom, and his will his law ."
  • Law In mathematics: The rule according to which anything, as the change of value of a variable, or the value of the terms of a series, proceeds; mode or order of sequence.
  • Law In morals: The will of God as the rule for the disposition and conduct of all responsible beings toward him and toward each other; a rule of living, conformable to righteousness; the rule of action as obligatory on the conscience or moral nature.
  • Law In philosophy and physics: A rule of being, operation, or change, so certain and constant that it is conceived of as imposed by the will of God or by some controlling authority; as, the law of gravitation; the laws of motion; the law heredity; the laws of thought; the laws of cause and effect; law of self-preservation.
  • Law Legal science; jurisprudence; the principles of equity; applied justice. "Reason is the life of the law ; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason.""Law is beneficence acting by rule.""And sovereign Law , that state's collected will
    O'er thrones and globes elate,
    Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill."
  • v. t Law Same as Lawe v. t.
  • Law The Jewish or Mosaic code, and that part of Scripture where it is written, in distinction from the gospel; hence, also, the Old Testament. "What things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law . . . But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets."
  • Law Trial by the laws of the land; judicial remedy; litigation; as, to go law . "When every case in law is right.""He found law dear and left it cheap."
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• Interesting fact: In Arizona, you cannot Drive past the same place more then 3 times in one hour. Its a law.
• • n law A rule of action prescribed by authority, especially by a sovereign or by the state: as, the laws of Manu; a law of God.
  • n law Specifically— Any written or positive rule, or collection of rules, prescribed under the authority of the state or nation, whether by the people in its constitution, as the organic law, or by the legislature in its statute law, or by the treaty-making power, or by municipalities in their ordinances or by-laws.
  • n law An act of the supreme legislative body of a state or nation, as distinguished from the constitution: as, the constitution, and the laws made in pursuance thereof.
  • n law In a more general sense, the profession or vocation of attorneys, counsellors, solicitors, conveyancers, etc.: as, to practise law.
  • n law Litigation: as, to go to law.
  • n law Collectively, a system or collection of such rules. Specifically— The principles and regulations of human government in their application to property and conduct; those general rules of external human action which are enforced by a sovereign political authority (Holland); the aggregate of rules set by men as politically superior or sovereign, to men as politically subject (Austin); rules of human conduct prescribed by established usage or custom, or by a constitution adopted by the people, or by statutes or ordinances prescribed by a legislative power, or by regulations of judicial procedure, or recognized and enforced by judicial decision. Modern difference of opinion as to the proper definition of law chiefly results from the fact that writers of the analytic school, proceeding by an analysis of the usual mental conception of law under monarchical government, have commonly defined it as in essence command by a superior to an inferior; and as perhaps the larger part of modern law—such, for instance, as the law of negotiable paper and of contracts generally—does not consist of commands or prohibitions, this definition is supported by the argument that what the sovereign permits he commands, or at least indirectly commands, shall not be prevented. Writers of the historical school, on the other hand, tracing government by law back to its early development, have defined law as essentially consisting of what is judicially ascertained to be usual and regular. In either view it is agreed that a true law in the sense of jurisprudence is one which deals with a class of things, acts or omissions, as distinguished from particular commands and awards. Law, as it actually exists in modern society, is the aggregate or system of rules by which a political community or congeries of communities regulates or professes to regulate the conduct and the rights and powers of its members and its own interference with their freedom; and any rule answering this description is, if authoritatively promulgated, a law. Every new judicial decision, also, is part of the law in the sense that it actually regulates conduct, rights, or powers.
  • n law The Mosaic system of rules and ordinances.
  • n law Hence— The books of the Bible containing this system; the books of the law.
  • n law The preceptive part of the Bible, especially of the New-Testament, in contradistinction to its promises.
  • n law A proposition which expresses the constant or regular order of certain phenomena, or the constant mode of action of a force; a general formula or rule to which all things, or all things or phenomena within the limits of a certain class or group, conform, precisely and without exception; a rule to which events really tend to conform. A mere empirical formula which satisfies a series of observations sufficiently, but would not hold in extreme cases, is not considered as a law. A special fact is not a law; but a subordinate principle, as that planets revolve in ellipses, is or is not a law according to the shade of meaning with which that word is used.
  • n law One of the rules or principles by which anything is regulated: as, the laws of the turf; the laws of versification.
  • n law A rule according to which anything is produced: as, the mathematical law of a curve.
  • n law An allowance in distance or time granted to an animal in a chase, or to a weaker competitor in a race or other contest; permission given to one competitor to start a certain distance ahead of, or a certain time before, another, in order to equalize the chances of winning.
  • n law Custom; manner.
  • n law that the quantity of an electrolyte decomposed in a given time is proportional to the strength of the current;
  • n law that the weights of the elements separated are proportional to their chemical equivalents; and.
  • n law that the strength of the electrolytic action is the same for cells in any part of the same circuit.
  • n law Aryan (Sanskrit, Greek, Latin, etc.).
  • n law low German (Gothic, Scandinavian, Anglo-Saxon, English, etc.).
  • n law High German (Old High German, Middle High German, New High German). For example, Skt. pitri (pitar) = Gr. patēr = Latin pater = Goth. fadar = OHG. vatar = English father; Skt. tvam = Gr. τύ = Latin tu = Goth, thu = OHG. du - E. thou; Skt. jānu (for *gānu) = Gr. γόνυ = Latin genu = Goth, kniu = OHG. chniu, chneo = English knee, etc. In the application of Grimm's law numerous in consistencies and anomalies appear, due to interference, conformation, particular position or sequence of sounds, variations of accent, and other causes explained by other philological laws, or remaining in small part occult. The most important of these other laws is Verner's law (which see, below). See also the articles on the separate letters.
  • n law The orbits of the planets are ellipses having the sun at one focus.
  • n law The areas described by their radiivectores in equal times are equal.
  • n law The squares of their periodic times are proportional to the cubes of their mean distances from the sun.
  • n law At any junction-point in a network of conductors the sum of all the currents which flow toward the junction is equal to the sum of all the currents which flow away from the junction (called the condition of continuity).
  • n law In any complete electric circuit the sum of the electromotive forces, reckoned in order round the circuit, is equal to the sum of the products of the current through and the resistance of each conductor forming the circuit.
  • n law The established law of a country.
  • n law More specifically, a law relating directly to the raising of the income of the government, as distinguished from one incidentally imposing fees, etc.
  • n law Synonyms Right, Equity, etc. (see justice); Law, Common Law, Statute, Enactment, Edict, Decree, Ordinance, Regulation, Canon. Law is the generic word, covering not only what is commanded by competent authority, but modes of action and orders of sequence: as, the Salic law; a law of rhetoric or logic; a law of nature; a law of character. Common law is that rule of action which has grown up from old usage and the decisions of judges. Statutes and enactments are laws made by legislative bodies; the slight difference between them is implied in their derivations. Edicts and decrees, on the other hand, are not legislative, but personal or executive acts, an edict being generally the command of a sovereign, and especially of an autocrat, while a decree is generally the order of an executive body or a court. Ordinance is very broad in its use, being applied to statutes (especially those of great importance: as, the ordinance of 1787), to decrees, to the local laws passed by city governments, etc. A regulation is a limited, subordinate, or temporary law or rule, perhaps applying to details of management or behavior, and often without expressed penalty for violation: as, army regulations; the regulations in a constitution. Canon is in this connection strictly an ecclesiastical term.
  • law To make a law; ordain.
  • law To apply the law to; enforce the law against.
  • law To give law to; regulate; determine.
  • law In old English forest usage, to cut off the claws and balls of the fore feet of (a dog); mutilate the feet of, as a dog; expeditate.
  • law To go to law; litigate.
  • law To Study law.
  • law An obsolete or dialectal (Scotch) form of low.
  • n law A dialectal form of low.
  • law A variation of la, or often of lord. Also laws.
  • n law In acoustics, the law that “any vibrational motion of the air in the entrance to the ear, corresponding to a musical tone, may be always, and for each case only in a single way, exhibited as the sum of a number of simple vibrational motions, corresponding to the partials of this musical tone.”
  • n law Same as Kelvin's law.
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• Interesting fact: The state law of Pennsylvania prohibits singing in the bathtub.
• • n Law law a rule of action established by authority: statute: the rules of a community or state: a rule or principle of science or art: the whole jurisprudence or the science of law: established usage: that which is lawful: the whole body of persons connected professionally with the law: litigation: a theoretical principle educed from practice or observation: a statement or formula expressing the constant order of certain phenomena:
  • v.t Law (coll.) to give law to, determine
  • v.i Law (obs.) to go to law
  • n Law law (theol.) the Mosaic code or the books containing it
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• Aleister Crowley

  

  “Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.”
• Justinian

  

  “Safety of the state is the highest law.”
• Thomas Fuller

  

  “The more laws, the more offenders.”
• Maxim Gorky

  

  “Every new time will give its law.”
• Aristotle

  

  “The law is reason, free from passion.”
• Ward Becker

  

  “Laws are not masters, but servants, and he rules them, who obeys them.”

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