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law
  1. The body of binding rules and regulations, customs, and standards established in a community by its legislative and judicial authorities.
    1. The body of such rules that pertain to a particular topic.
    2. Common law, as contrasted with equity.
  2. A binding regulation or custom established in a community in this way.
  3. (more generally) A rule, such as:
    1. Any rule that must or should be obeyed, concerning behaviours and their consequences. (Compare mores.)
    2. A rule or principle regarding the construction of language or art.
    3. A statement (in physics, etc) of an (observed, established) order or sequence or relationship of phenomena which is invariable under certain conditions. (Compare theory.)
    4. (mathematics) A statement (of relation) that is true under specified conditions; a mathematical or logical rule.
    5. Any statement of the relation of acts and conditions to their consequences.
    6. (cricket) One of the official rules of cricket as codified by the its (former) governing body, the MCC.
  4. The control and order brought about by the observance of such rules.
  5. (uncountable, informal) A person or group that act(s) with authority to uphold such rules and order (for example, one or more police officers).
  6. The profession that deals with such rules (as lawyers, judges, police officers, etc).
  7. Jurisprudence, the field of knowledge which encompasses these rules.
  8. Litigation, legal action (as a means of maintaining or restoring order, redressing wrongs, etc).
  9. (now uncommon) An allowance of distance or time (a head start) given to a weaker (human or animal) competitor in a race, to make the race more fair.
  10. (fantasy) One of two metaphysical forces ruling the world in some fantasy settings, also called order, and opposed to chaos.
  11. (Can we verify(+) this sense?) An oath, as in the presence of a court. See wager of law.
  12. Synonyms:
  13. Examples:
    1. “Far better were it to live by no laws, than to put this necessity of divination upon a man, and to accuse him of the breach of a law.”
      “And another ballot was found to have violated state law requiring that candidates for nonpartisan office be listed alphabetically.”
      “This criminal had somehow managed to avoid the law for most of his life.”
lawman
  1. (law, historical) A lawspeaker: a declarer of the law.
  2. (law, historical) One of 12 magistrates in certain Danish boroughs of England empowered with soc and sac over their own households.
  3. (law, Orkney and Shetland) The presiding justice of the supreme court.
  4. (rare) A man of the law: a lawyer.
  5. (informal) An officer of the law: a law-enforcement officer.
  6. Synonyms:
  7. Examples:
    1. “The wife of a deceased lawman would never consider a proposal from a fugitive.”
      “Eliot Ness was the intrepid lawman who busted Al Capone and was the bane of the Mob in 1930s Chicago.”
      “In his incapacitated state the bogus lawman fell gratefully back onto the grass.”
lawyer
lawlessness
  1. a lack of law and order; anarchy
  2. defiance of the law; outlawry
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “During the riots, the city descended into a state of lawlessness as peaceful and law-abiding behavior disintegrated.”
      “The government declared a state of emergency due to the widespread lawlessness, as looting and vandalism had become rampant in the city.”
      “We must not descend to the depth of lawlessness for which the criminal was sentenced.”
lawbook
  1. A book in which laws are codified.
  2. A textbook on some aspect of law.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “The Compendium is a kind of lawbook, and, as such, it has its share of loopholes.”
      “In the lawbook of the tsar Wachtang a double composition price was exacted for death by poison.”
      “In lawbook as in prophecy, it is the fact of redemption which forms the main ground of His appeal.”
lawgiver
  1. One who provides laws to a society.
  2. Any lawmaker.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “It basically says that the law is whatever the lawgiver says it is.”
      “The idea that people decide what is normative in life is opposed to the Word of God, which teaches that God is sovereign as the final lawgiver.”
      “This chapter and verse makes clear that only God can be our lawgiver, judge and King.”
lawing
  1. Going to law; litigation.
  2. Money owed for a service rendered.
  3. Examples:
    1. “They're worth more than all the lawing Gray and Vanrevel have ever done or ever will do.”
      “Gradually, after much shooting and lawing, we parcelled out the range and settled down covering practically the whole State.”
      “I hastened through my breakfast, paid my lawing, and ordered out my horse.”
law
  1. (obsolete) A tumulus of stones.
  2. (Scotland and Northern England, archaic) A hill.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “Far better were it to live by no laws, than to put this necessity of divination upon a man, and to accuse him of the breach of a law.”
      “And another ballot was found to have violated state law requiring that candidates for nonpartisan office be listed alphabetically.”
      “This criminal had somehow managed to avoid the law for most of his life.”
lawspeaker
  1. (historical) An official in Scandinavian countries whose duties included memorizing laws as well as presiding over, and reciting the laws at, regional Things or the Althing; the office of that person.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The lawspeaker was in charge of all the affairs of the Althing.”
lawyering
  1. The practicing of law as a profession; being a lawyer.
lawmaking
  1. The process of passing or enacting laws; legislation.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The lawmaking process involves extensive research, drafting, and deliberation before the enactment of a new law.”
      “One secret of American lawmaking is that legislators and legislatures need lobbyists.”
      “Their businesses were often taken over or destroyed, and bribery and corruption were the norm in the courtroom and in lawmaking.”
lawbreaking
lawmonger
  1. A trader in law; one who practices law as if it were a trade.
lawyerspeak
  1. (informal) The abstruse jargon of lawyers.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “I briefly skimmed the pages and noticed that the contract was well written without much lawyerspeak.”
lawbreaker
  1. One who breaks (violates) the law, a criminal.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The warning comes in the aftermath of an incident where policemen tried to arrest a lawbreaker with a long rap sheet or criminal record.”
      “The truly unsocial lawbreaker disregards law because he as an individual is seeking a personal advantage.”
      “Now, unfortunately, it seems that I am retroactively a lawbreaker.”
lawmaker
  1. One who makes or enacts laws.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The lawmaker struck the sergeant-at-arms as House members were trying to silence impeachment supporters in the gallery before the scuffle.”
      “The Net poses intractable problems to the would-be lawmaker, or moral disciplinarian.”
      “The veteran pro-democracy lawmaker proposed a motion in the legislature yesterday to call for his resignation.”
lawfulness
  1. Property of being lawful, of obeying the law.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “No challenge of any kind is made to the lawfulness or propriety of this policy.”
      “That is not necessarily conclusive as to the lawfulness of honesty of the practices, but it is powerful evidence.”
      “It is, of course, obvious that such an approach is predicated on the lawfulness of the policy.”
lawyerese
  1. (informal) The jargon used by lawyers.
lawyeress
  1. (obsolete or rare) A female lawyer.
lawyerdom
  1. The realm or sphere of lawyers.
lawe
  1. Obsolete spelling of law
lawbreakings
lawlessnesses
lawspeakers
lawbreakers
  1. plural of lawbreaker
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “We are tough on lawbreakers, and driving while disqualified is lawbreaking.”
      “I mean, your critics are saying you can't be lawmakers and lawbreakers at the same time.”
      “But arresting lawbreakers and bringing them to trial in Australian courts is one thing.”
lawfulnesses
lawmakings
lawyerings
  1. plural of lawyering
lawmongers
  1. plural of lawmonger
lawyeresses
  1. plural of lawyeress
lawmakers
  1. plural of lawmaker
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “This question had rankled lawmakers and scholars of the Constitution since the administration of Woodrow Wilson.”
      “The president urges Congress to act before lawmakers recess for the November elections.”
      “Instead of banking the funds for a rainy day, Michigan lawmakers went on a spending spree.”
lawgivers
  1. plural of lawgiver
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The reluctance of lawgivers to push conversion to the metric system is due mainly of these three objections by the fundamentalist lobby.”
      “They accept Washington and Jefferson as slaveholders rather than as lawgivers of genius.”
      “But there is no hint that the other great lawgivers sought even a formal ratification for their codes.”
lawbooks
lawmen
  1. plural of lawman
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Thankfully, I do think based on recent reports that our lawmen are making good dents in the illegal drug trade here.”
      “It's identical to those used by many a Texas Ranger and other border lawmen in the early decades of the 20th century.”
      “This time players are lawmen in the old west trying to capture various outlaws.”
lawings
  1. plural of lawing
lawyers
lawes
  1. plural of lawe
laws
  1. plural of law
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “They were stubborn nonconformists who chose to be arrested instead of obeying the laws.”
      “The pamphlet provides a lot of information on recent changes to the tax laws.”
      “As regulators and legislators established laws and regulations with the traditional economy in mind, they are not suited for the sharing economy and application often remains uncertain.”
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