Law

Definition:

(n.) In general, a rule of being or of conduct, established by an authority able to enforce its will; a controlling regulation; the mode or order according to which an agent or a power acts.
(n.) In morals: The will of God as the rule for the disposition and conduct of all responsible beings toward him and toward each other; a rule of living, conformable to righteousness; the rule of action as obligatory on the conscience or moral nature.
(n.) The Jewish or Mosaic code, and that part of Scripture where it is written, in distinction from the gospel; hence, also, the Old Testament.
(n.) An organic rule, as a constitution or charter, establishing and defining the conditions of the existence of a state or other organized community.
(n.) Any edict, decree, order, ordinance, statute, resolution, judicial, decision, usage, etc., or recognized, and enforced, by the controlling authority.
(n.) In philosophy and physics: A rule of being, operation, or change, so certain and constant that it is conceived of as imposed by the will of God or by some controlling authority; as, the law of gravitation; the laws of motion; the law heredity; the laws of thought; the laws of cause and effect; law of self-preservation.
(n.) In matematics: The rule according to which anything, as the change of value of a variable, or the value of the terms of a series, proceeds; mode or order of sequence.
(n.) In arts, works, games, etc.: The rules of construction, or of procedure, conforming to the conditions of success; a principle, maxim; or usage; as, the laws of poetry, of architecture, of courtesy, or of whist.
(n.) Collectively, the whole body of rules relating to one subject, or emanating from one source; -- including usually the writings pertaining to them, and judicial proceedings under them; as, divine law; English law; Roman law; the law of real property; insurance law.
(n.) Legal science; jurisprudence; the principles of equity; applied justice.
(n.) Trial by the laws of the land; judicial remedy; litigation; as, to go law.
(n.) An oath, as in the presence of a court.
(v. t.) Same as Lawe, v. t.
(interj.) An exclamation of mild surprise.

Compare law with other words:

doctrine vs. law

covenant vs. law

administer vs. law

administering vs. law

administration vs. law

law vs. opinion

law vs. precept

law vs. lawsuit

criminality vs. law

command vs. law

law vs. subreader

law vs. publishment

law vs. nomography

enactive vs. law

law vs. unlawlike

kinology vs. law

jurisprudent vs. law

law vs. lawgiving

law vs. lawmonger

alguazil vs. law

law vs. physiocrat

law vs. legislature

law vs. theories

law vs. stature

amendment vs. law

equally vs. law

economy vs. law

law vs. principle

incentive vs. law

kitchen vs. law

demonstrate vs. law

law vs. unvarying

circumstance vs. law

hundred vs. law

flathead vs. law

grammar vs. law

law vs. requirement

hypothesis vs. law

incontestability vs. law

determinable vs. law

competence vs. law

law vs. nonobservance

law vs. pharisee

concept vs. law

law vs. programma

hornbook vs. law

law vs. preemption

deviance vs. law

law vs. unwrite

juridical vs. law

governable vs. law

law vs. legitim

law vs. legalism

authenticate vs. law

illegality vs. law

decalogue vs. law

law vs. topographic

diminutive vs. law

law vs. patronymic

law vs. lawbreaker

halacha vs. law

law vs. promulgation

law vs. newtonian

law vs. provision

law vs. offender

jurisconsult vs. law

law vs. physically

law vs. sumptuary

illegally vs. law

law vs. positivism

law vs. lawless

law vs. prescription

law vs. outlawed

constitute vs. law

law vs. sleeper

law vs. tribunal

law vs. magistrate

judicial vs. law

clandestinely vs. law

law vs. practise

law vs. relativity

law vs. legislator

law vs. referendum

law vs. transgress

law vs. legitimate

law vs. leviticus

forensic vs. law

jurisdiction vs. law

law vs. wrongdoer

law vs. prohibition

law vs. shyster

law vs. observant

law vs. observance

erroneous vs. law

law vs. litigate

heteronomy vs. law

law vs. nomology

law vs. unlawful

law vs. transgression

contravention vs. law

holding vs. law

law vs. mandate

law vs. personality

content vs. law

illegitimate vs. law

law vs. scruple

law vs. liberalism

law vs. pentateuch

law vs. regulate

jurisprudence vs. law

determinism vs. law

law vs. partner

enshrine vs. law

derivation vs. law

compliant vs. law

citation vs. law

law vs. obligation

law vs. practice

contract vs. law

chamber vs. law

anarchist vs. law

law vs. ordinance

circuit vs. law

law vs. nomothetic

constitution vs. law

distribution vs. law

criminal vs. law

law vs. lawmaker

law vs. lawgiver

codified vs. law

cricket vs. law

law vs. official

judgment vs. law

law vs. request

law vs. monetary

law vs. petition

english vs. law

category vs. law

law vs. statement

condition vs. law

law vs. physical

law vs. observed

law vs. thereof

consequence vs. law

appropriate vs. law

behaviour vs. law

concern vs. law

law vs. understood

law vs. similar

law vs. written

law vs. standard

accountability vs. law

government vs. law

commandment vs. law

law vs. statute

law vs. regulation

law vs. morality

law vs. legislation

justice vs. law

bavarian vs. law

abusion vs. law

abolish vs. law