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Law
lɔː
Law definitions
noun
law
laws
- the system of rules which a particular country or community recognizes as regulating the actions of its members and which it may enforce by the imposition of penalties
"shooting the birds is against the law"
- an individual rule as part of a system of law
"a new law was passed to make divorce easier and simpler"
- systems of law as a subject of study or as the basis of the legal profession
"he was still practising law"
- statute law and the common law
- something regarded as having binding force or effect
"he had supreme control—what he said was law"
- the police
"he'd never been in trouble with the law in his life"
- a rule defining correct procedure or behaviour in a sport
"the laws of the game"
- a statement of fact, deduced from observation, to the effect that a particular natural or scientific phenomenon always occurs if certain conditions are present
"the second law of thermodynamics"
- a generalization based on a fact or event perceived to be recurrent
"the first law of American corporate life is that dead wood floats"
- the body of divine commandments as expressed in the Bible or other religious textsprinciple rule precept directive direction injunction instruction commandment prescription standard criterion belief creed credo ethic maxim formula tenet doctrine canon
- the Pentateuch as distinct from the other parts of the Hebrew Bible (the Prophets and the Writings)
- the law of God as revealed to Moses and recorded in the first five books of the Old Testament (the Pentateuch)