:the principles and regulations established in a community by some authority and applicable to its people, whether in the form of legislation or of custom and policies recognized and enforced by judicial decision.
:any written or positive rule or collection of rules prescribed under the authority of the state or nation, as by the people in its constitution.Compare bylaw, statutory law.
:the controlling influence of such rules; the condition of society brought about by their observance: maintaining law and order.
:a system or collection of such rules.
:the department of knowledge concerned with these rules; jurisprudence: to study law.
:the body of such rules concerned with a particular subject or derived from a particular source: commercial law.
:an act of the supreme legislative body of a state or nation, as distinguished from the constitution.
:the principles applied in the courts of common law, as distinguished from equity.
:the profession that deals with law and legal procedure: to practice law.
:legal action; litigation: to go to law.
:a person, group, or agency acting officially to enforce the law: The law arrived at the scene soon after the alarm went off.
In Wisconsin, the Green Party effort to get on the ballot was boosted by help from some Republicans and a prominent law firm that does work for the GOP.
Most recently, he took a big shot at the traditional legal industry with Atrium, a law firm and legal software startup that raised big rounds of funding before shuttering earlier this year.
Fischer stressed that these updates, together with Breonna’s Law, are “substantial” and create a new level of scrutiny for obtaining search warrants.
Last October, President Jair Bolsonaro signed a law compelling federal bodies to share most of the data they hold on Brazilian citizens and consolidate it in a vast, centralized database.
Quinn has worked as an elections official in Virginia with von Spakovsky and has co-taught a law school course with him.
Unless there is a court decision that changes our law, we are OK.
Submission is set in a France seven years from now that is dominated by a Muslim president intent on imposing Islamic law.
A few days later, Bush replied, “We will uphold the law in Florida.”
To those who agreed with him, Bush pledged that the law against same-sex marriage would remain intact.
In Israel, however, a new law took effect January 1st that banned the use of underweight models.
We should have to admit that the new does little or nothing to relieve such a situation.
:any rule or injunction that must be obeyed: Having a nourishing breakfast was an absolute law in our household.
:a rule or principle of proper conduct sanctioned by conscience, concepts of natural justice, or the will of a deity: a moral law.
:a rule or manner of behavior that is instinctive or spontaneous: the law of self-preservation.
: a statement of a relation or sequence of phenomena invariable under the same conditions.a mathematical rule.
:a principle based on the predictable consequences of an act, condition, etc.: the law of supply and demand.
:a rule, principle, or convention regarded as governing the structure or the relationship of an element in the structure of something, as of a language or work of art: the laws of playwriting; the laws of grammar.
:a commandment or a revelation from God.
:Sometimes Law . a divinely appointed order or system.
:the Law. Law of Moses.
:the preceptive part of the Bible, especially of the New Testament, in contradistinction to its promises: the law of Christ.
:British Sports. an allowance of time or distance given a quarry or competitor in a race, as the head start given a fox before the hounds are set after it.