Archive for Law
* 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”
* a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature; “the laws of thermodynamics”
* a rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society
* 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”
* police: the force of policemen and officers; “the law came looking for him”
* jurisprudence: the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do