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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"

a rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society

a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature; "the laws of thermodynamics"

legal document setting forth rules governing a particular kind of activity; "there is a law against kidnapping"

the collection of rules imposed by authority; "civilization presupposes respect for the law"; "the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order"

Synonyms:

• Dogberry,
• Eighteenth Amendment,
• John Law,
• Procrustean law,
• Prohibition Party,
• Volstead Act,
• a priori truth,
• act,
• appointment,
• assize,
• axiom,
• ban,
• bill,
• bluecoat,
• bobby,
• brevet,
• bring action against,
• bring into court,
• bring suit,
• bring to justice,
• bring to trial,
• brocard,
• bull,
• bylaw,
• canon,
• code,
• command,
• commandment,
• contraband,
• convention,
• cop,
• copper,
• criminology,
• criterion,
• declaration,
• decree,
• decree-law,
• decreement,
• decretal,
• decretum,
• denial,
• dick,
• dictate,
• dictation,
• dictum,
• diktat,
• disallowance,
• drag into court,
• edict,
• edictum,
• embargo,
• enactment,
• exclusion,
• exigency,
• fiat,
• flatfoot,
• flattie,
• forbiddance,
• forbidden fruit,
• forbidding,
• forensic psychiatry,
• form,
• formality,
• formula,
• formulary,
• fundamental,
• gendarme,
• general principle,
• go into litigation,
• go to law,
• golden rule,
• guideline,
• guiding principle,
• gumshoe,
• imperative,
• implead,
• index,
• index expurgatorius,
• index librorum prohibitorum,
• inhibition,
• injunction,
• institute,
• institution,
• interdict,
• interdiction,
• interdictum,
• ipse dixit,
• jurisprudence,
• jus,
• law of nature,
• legal chemistry,
• legal medicine,
• legal science,
• legislation,
• lex,
• litigate,
• mandate,
• maxim,
• measure,
• medical jurisprudence,
• medico-legal medicine,
• mitzvah,
• moral,
• necessity,
• no-no,
• nomography,
• norm,
• norma,
• order of nature,
• ordinance,
• ordonnance,
• peeler,
• pig,
• postulate,
• precept,
• preclusion,
• prescribed form,
• prescript,
• prescription,
• prevention,
• principium,
• principle,
• proclamation,
• prohibition,
• prohibitory injunction,
• pronouncement,
• pronunciamento,
• proposition,
• proscription,
• prosecute,
• prosecute at law,
• put in suit,
• put on trial,
• refusal,
• regulation,
• rejection,
• repression,
• rescript,
• restrictive covenants,
• rubric,
• rule,
• ruling,
• ruling out,
• seek in law,
• seek justice,
• self-evident truth,
• senatus consult,
• senatus consultum,
• set form,
• settled principle,
• shamus,
• standard,
• standing order,
• statute,
• sue,
• sumptuary laws,
• suppression,
• taboo,
• take to court,
• tenet,
• the cops,
• the fuzz,
• the law,
• theorem,
• truism,
• truth,
• ukase,
• universal law,
• universal truth,
• working principle,
• working rule,
• zoning,
• zoning laws