Law (Noun)
Meaning 1
Legal document setting forth rules governing a particular kind of activity; "there is a law against kidnapping".
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Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents.
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Meaning 2
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".
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Nouns denoting acts or actions.
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Meaning 3
A generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature; "the laws of thermodynamics".
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Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents.
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- Mariotte's Law
- Exclusion Principle
- Dalton's Law Of Partial Pressures
- Law Of Volumes
- Law Of Large Numbers
- Newton's Law
- Law Of Archimedes
- Mendeleev's Law
- Power Law
- Hubble Law
- Kepler's Law Of Planetary Motion
- Law Of Reciprocal Proportions
- Rule
- Avogadro's Hypothesis
- Law Of Motion
- Law Of Definite Proportions
- Dalton's Law
- Law Of Partial Pressures
- Weber-Fechner Law
- Newton's Law Of Gravitation
- Law Of Chemical Equilibrium
- Charles's Law
- Pascal's Law Of Fluid Pressures
- Stevens' Power Law
Meaning 4
The force of policemen and officers; "the law came looking for him".
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Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects.
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Meaning 5
A rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society.
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Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents.
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Meaning 6
The collection of rules imposed by authority; "civilization presupposes respect for the law"; "the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order".
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Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects.
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- Commercial Law
- Law Merchant
- Law Of Nations
- Sharia Law
- Islamic Law
- Precedent
- Law Of Moses
- Sharia
- Case Law
- Ecclesiastical Law
- Shariah Law
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Meaning 7
The branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do.
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Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents.