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Law

noun
1.
The collection of rules imposed by authority.  Synonym: jurisprudence.  "The great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order"
2.
Legal document setting forth rules governing a particular kind of activity.
3.
A rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society.  Synonym: natural law.
4.
A generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature.  Synonym: law of nature.
5.
The branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do.  Synonyms: jurisprudence, legal philosophy.
6.
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.
7.
The force of policemen and officers.  Synonyms: constabulary, police, police force.



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"Law" Quotes from Famous Books



... through the international press; leaving him with his divorce signed and a future endurable only when his senses had been sufficiently drugged. In sober intervals he now had neuritis and a limp to distract his mind; also his former brother-in-law with professions of esteem and respect and a tendency to borrow. And drunk or sober he had the Ariani. But the house that Youth had built in the tinted obscurity of an old New York parlour—no, he didn't have that; ...
— The Firing Line • Robert W. Chambers
... that she would never speak to him again. The doctor promised to undertake the search, and would have promised anything to get rid of his visitor. A reward of fifty pounds wag offered. But whether the fear of falling into the clutches of the law for murderous assault stimulated Cashel to extraordinary precaution, or whether he had contrived to leave the country in the four days which elapsed between his flight and the offer of the reward, the doctor's efforts were unsuccessful; and he had to confess their ...
— Cashel Byron's Profession • George Bernard Shaw
... denunciations. Thus one generation of malefactors is commonly cut off, and their successors are frighted into new expedients; the art of thievery is augmented with greater variety of fraud, and subtilized to higher degrees of dexterity, and more occult methods of conveyance. The law then renews the pursuit in the heat of anger, and overtakes the offender again with death. By this practice capital inflictions are multiplied, and crimes, very different in their degrees of enormity, are equally subjected ...
— The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D, In Nine Volumes - Volume the Third: The Rambler, Vol. II • Samuel Johnson
... year. I was Counsel for him here. I hope there will be little fear of a reversal; but I must beg to have your aid in my plan of supporting the decree. It is a general question, and not a point of particular law. ...
— Life Of Johnson, Vol. 2 • Boswell
... a law-abiding, but a peace-loving people. The report of the revolver was not heard in our streets, nor was the glitter of the bowie-knife seen in our bar-rooms. We deprecated mob-violence, and disliked the summary proceedings of Judge Lynch. We took no pains to conceal ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. XI., April, 1863, No. LXVI. - A Magazine Of Literature, Art, And Politics. • Various


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