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1. The collection of rules imposed by authority
   "civilization presupposes respect for the law";
   - jurisprudence
    
2. Legal document setting forth rules governing a particular kind of activity
   "there is a law against kidnapping"
    
3. A rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society
   - natural law
    
4. A generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature
   "the laws of thermodynamics";
   - law of nature
    
5. The branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do
   - jurisprudence, legal philosophy
    
6. 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";
   - practice of law
    
7. The force of policemen and officers
   "the law came looking for him";
   - police, police force, constabulary, polis [UK, dialect, informal], fuzz [informal], the fuzz [informal], boys in blue [informal], Bill [Brit, informal], Old Bill [Brit, informal]

Sounds like: lauded, lor, law

Derived forms: laws

Type of: accumulation, aggregation, assemblage, collection, concept, conception, construct, force, instrument, law enforcement agency, learned profession, legal document, legal instrument, official document, personnel, philosophy

Part of: theory

Encyclopedia: Law, Peter