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Law

noun

The collection of rules imposed by authority. Synonym: jurisprudence. "The great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order"

Legal document setting forth rules governing a particular kind of activity.

A rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society. Synonym: natural law.

A generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature. Synonym: law of nature.

The branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do. Synonyms: jurisprudence, legal philosophy.

The learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system. Synonym: practice of law.

The force of policemen and officers. Synonyms: constabulary, police, police force.

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"Law" Quotes from Famous Books

... that men are naturally the lawmakers and law-enforcers, under the plain historic fact that they have been such since ...

— The Forerunner, Volume 1 (1909-1910) • Charlotte Perkins Gilman

... it for about eighteen months. I say! We don't want to go into that enormous crowd. We'll stroll round and see how the penguins are getting on. They sometimes look as though they were thinking of giving me a commission to draw up plans for new Law Courts." ...

— Love at Paddington • W. Pett Ridge

... always formed from attentively reading or listening to a correct verbal or written description of it. Even the most faithful drawings cannot awaken an adequate conception of the majesty, the greatness of NIAGARA. Now the law of optics will serve to convince us that this must ever be so, since the image formed in the dark chamber of the eye is exceedingly small; and as the Falls are always approached gradually from a distance, the surrounding ...

— The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 - Volume 23, Number 2 • Various

... defend it until he had won it. He had lived so long the free life of the prairie and the woods, that the crowds of cities and their occupations almost frightened him. For theology he had no vocation and no "call." Medicine he had a most decided repugnance to. Law seemed to him but a meddling in other people's business and predicaments. He felt that he would rather face a band of savages than a constant invasion of shoppers; rather stand behind a breastwork than behind ...

— The Hallam Succession • Amelia Edith Barr

... synagogues and in the streets of Jerusalem were merely repeated platitudes, when a man appeared in Galilee, who claimed the highest authority and showed the greatest humility at the same time. The Law was the highest authority for the Jews, and the Emperor of Rome the highest authority for Pilate. But Jesus declared himself to be the bearer of an authority which was incomparably higher than any authority existing on earth. He did not beg either Andrew or Peter or John and James, to follow ...

— The Agony of the Church (1917) • Nikolaj Velimirovic

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