Law

Noun

 * 1)  The body of rules and standards issued by a government, or to be applied by courts and similar authorities.
 * By law, one is not allowed to own a wallaby in New York City.
 * 1) A particular such rule.
 * A new law forbids driving on that road.
 * 1)  A written or understood rule that concerns behaviours and the appropriate consequences thereof.  Laws are usually associated with mores.
 * "Do unto others as you wish them to do unto you" is a good law to follow.
 * 1) A one-sided contract.
 * 2) A well-established, observed physical characteristic or behavior of nature.
 * Newton and Einstein understood the law of gravitation in very different ways.
 * 1)  A statement that is true under specified conditions.
 * 2) A category of English "common law" petitions that request monetary relief, as opposed to relief in forms other than a monetary judgment; compare to "equity".
 * 3)  One of the official rules of cricket as codified by the MCC.
 * 4)  The police.
 * Here comes the law — run!
 * 1)  One of the two metaphysical forces of the world in some fantasy settings, as opposed to chaos.

Derived terms

 * above the law
 * against the law
 * a law unto oneself
 * Ampère’s law
 * Avogadro’s law
 * Beer-Lambert law
 * Boyle’s law
 * bylaw
 * canon law
 * Charles’ law
 * civil law
 * common law
 * contract law
 * corn laws
 * Coulomb’s law
 * criminal law
 * de Morgan’s laws
 * employment law
 * family law
 * Faraday’s laws
 * federal law
 * feudal law
 * Fourier’s law
 * Gauss’s law
 * Graham’s law
 * Gresham’s law
 * Henry’s law
 * Hooke’s law
 * Hubble’s law
 * international law
 * into law
 * Kepler’s laws of planetary motion
 * Kerchoff’s laws
 * law and order
 * lawful


 * lawgiver
 * lawlike
 * law lord
 * lawmaker, law-maker
 * law of cosines
 * law of large numbers
 * law of sines
 * law of small numbers
 * law of tangents
 * law of the tongue
 * lay down the law
 * long arm of the law
 * lynch law
 * martial law
 * Moore’s law
 * Murphy's law
 * natural law
 * Newton’s law of cooling
 * Newton’s law of gravitation
 * Newton’s laws of motion
 * Ohm’s law
 * physical law
 * power law
 * Poiseuille’s law
 * possession is nine points of the law
 * property law
 * Roman law
 * statuate (statute)+law=statuate law (US)
 * state law
 * statute law (Commonwealth English)
 * Stefan-Boltzmann law
 * Stokes’ law
 * sus law
 * take the law into one’s own hands
 * three laws of robotics
 * unwritten law
 * Zipf’s law

Noun

 * 1)  a tumulus of stones
 * 2) (Scottish and northern dialectal, archaic) a hill
 * You might climb the Law [...] and behold the face of many counties. (Robert Louis Stevenson Across the Plains, 1892)

Adjectives for Law
immutable; sacred; penal; violated; stringent; fundamental; impartial; salutary; comprehensive; valid; international; eternal; sumptuary; important; traditional; inexorable; remedial; flagitious changeless; singular; angry; constricting physical; standing; secular; unwritten common; mild; conciliatory; criminal; invariable; certain; efficacious; unfailing; adequate; inoperative; severest; bloody; existing; conscription;  never-to-be-formulated;   geometric; organic; unspectacular;  non-corporation; bogus; supreme; primitive; scientific; radiant; antiquated;  prohibitory;  uniform; rigorous; hideous; undiscriminating; drastic; continuous; all-building; recorded; subjective; severe; inescapable; biting; benignant; unconstitutional; sharp; evident; economic; oppressive; empirical; righteous; anatomic; deathless; conservation; mundane; beneficent; harsh; sumptuary; cere¬monial; querulous; sanguine; chancery; rigid; outraged; unequal; civil; social; hidden; substantive; obnoxious; mortal; stern; slavery-fashioned; ungracious; admirable; dramatic; academic; irreversible; active; indwelling; immovable; murderous; primal; unwieldy; tyrannical; blind; furious; unreasoning; crude; complex; clumsy; fiery; brutal; underlying; strictest; sordid; indiscreet; fantastical; expiring; ridiculous; restraining; proposed; express; protective; ultimate; martial; fallible; human; intolerant; preadjusted; physiological; clocklike.

Verbs for Law
amend—; administer—; apply—; array against—; bow to—; challenge—; circum¬vent—; clarify—; codify—; comply with—; comprehend—; conform to—; defy—; denounce—; dispute—; disregard—; dodge—; draft—; elude—; enact—; enforce—; expound—; flout—; forge—; forsake—; frame —; grind out—s; heed—; impose by—; infringe—; instigate—; interpret—; invoke—; mock—; modify—; nullify—; promulgate—; rail against—; ratify—; repeal—; repudiate —; resist—; run afoul of—; stiffen—; subject to—; supersede—; supplant—; suspend —; sustain—; systematize—; tamper witl- —; tighten—; transgress—; uphold—; — broadens; —clamps down; —curbs; —de¬crees; —defines; —differentiates; —empowers; —isolates; —prescribes; —relaxes; —restricts; —sanctions; —stipulates.

Thesaurus
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

Etymology 1
From lawe:, laȝe:, from  lagu:, from  *undefined:, an early plural form of lag:, lǫg:, from, from. Cognate with lög:,  lag:,  lov:. Replaced æ: and gesetnes:. More at.

Etymology 2
From Old English hláw "burial mound". Also spelled low.

Noun

 * Albanian:
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 * Armenian:
 * Avestan:
 * Azeri:
 * Basque: lege
 * Campidanese Sardinian: lei
 * Catalan: llei
 * Chinese: 法律 (fǎlǜ)
 * Croatian:
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 * Ewe:
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 * Haitian Creole:
 * Hebrew: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 法 (ほう, hō)
 * Korean: 법 [法] (beop)
 * Kurdish:
 * Kurmanji: qanûn, zagon , yasa
 * Sorani: یاسا
 * Latgalian:


 * Latin:
 * Latvian: likums
 * Lithuanian:
 * Malayalam: നിയമം (niyamam)
 * Middle Persian:
 * Nahuatl: nauatili
 * Norwegian:
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 * Old Provençal:
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 * Polish:, ,
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 * Romansch: dretg
 * Russian: ,
 * Scots:
 * Serbian: ,
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 * Swedish:
 * Tajik:
 * Taos: láyna
 * Telugu: నియమము, చట్టము
 * Turkish:
 * Urdu:
 * Uzbek: konun


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 * Korean: 법률 [法律] (beopryul)
 * Kurdish:
 * Kurmanji:, ,
 * Sorani: یاسا


 * Latin:
 * Latvian: tieslietas
 * Lithuanian: teisė
 * Malayalam: നിയമം (niyamam)
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 * Telugu: చట్టము (chaTTamu)


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 * Ewe: se
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 * Japanese: 法 (ほう, hō), 法規 (ほうき, hōki), 法律 (ほうりつ, hōritsu), 法令 (ほうれい, hōrei)
 * Korean: 법률 [法律] (beopryul)
 * Kurdish:
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 * Sorani: یاسا


 * Latin:
 * Latvian: tieslietas
 * Lithuanian: teisė
 * Malayalam: നിയമം (niyamam)
 * Norwegian:
 * Persian: (ghaanoon)
 * Polish:
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 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbian:
 * Slovene:
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 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: న్యాయశాస్త్రము (nyaayaSAstramu)


 * Arabic: قانون
 * Armenian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 定律
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Estonian: seadus, seaduspärasus
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * German:
 * Hungarian: törvény
 * Icelandic: lögmál
 * Interlingua: lege
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 法則 (ほうそく, hōsoku)
 * Korean: 법칙 [法則] (beopchik)


 * Latin:
 * Latvian: likums
 * Lithuanian: dėsnis
 * Malay: hukum
 * Norwegian:
 * Persian: (ghaanoon)
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: lege
 * Russian:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: సిద్ధాంతము (siddhaaMtamu)
 * Turkish: kanun
 * Vietnamese: định luật


 * Armenian:
 * Danish:
 * Estonian: reegel, seadus
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 法則 (ほうそく, hōsoku), 律 (りつ, ritsu)
 * Korean: 법칙 [法則] (beopchik)
 * Latin:


 * Norwegian:
 * Persian: (ghaanoon)
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: lege
 * Russian:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: సూత్రము (sootramu)


 * Romanian: drept comun


 * Danish: loven (definite)
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Italian:


 * Norwegian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: lege


 * : qanoon,  (shari'a) ,  (shar').
 * : lê
 * : 法, 律, 法律, 法令, 法則 / 法则, 法規 / 法规
 * : hukum, peraturan, tata-tertib
 * : lege
 * : (ghaanoon)
 * : lege
 * : hukuk
 * : hukuk

Anagrams

 * awl

Noun

 * 1) lion

Etymology
From, from.

Noun

 * 1) law
 * 2) rounded hill usually conical, frequently isolated or conspicuous

Verb

 * 1) To be crazy