(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.
Example Sentences:
(1) Villagers, including one man who has been left disabled and the relatives of six men who were killed, are suing ABG in the UK high court, represented by British law firm Leigh Day, alleging that Tanzanian police officers shot unarmed locals.
(2) Biden will meet with representatives from six gun groups on Thursday, including the NRA and the Independent Firearms Owners Association, which are both publicly opposed to stricter gun-control laws.
(3) The inquiry found the law enforcement agencies routinely fail to record the professions of those whose communications data records they access under Ripa.
(4) A statement from the company said it had assigned all its assets for the benefit of creditors, in accordance with Massachusetts' law.
(5) Anytime they feel parts of the Basic Law are not up to their current standards of political correctness, they will change it and tell Hong Kong courts to obey.
(6) He voiced support for refugees, trade unions, council housing, peace, international law and human rights.
(7) This exploratory survey of 100 patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) was conducted (1) to learn about the types and frequencies of disability law-related problems encountered as a result of having RA, and (2) to assess the respective relationships between the number of disability law-related problems reported and the patients' sociodemographic and RA disease characteristics.
(8) If there is a will to use primary Care centres for effective preventive action in the population as a whole, motivation of the professionals involved and organisational changes will be necessary so as not to perpetuate the law of inverse care.
(9) "The proposed 'reform' is designed to legitimise this blatantly unfair, police state practice, while leaving the rest of the criminal procedure law as misleading decoration," said Professor Jerome Cohen, an expert on China at New York University's School of Law.
(10) The discussion on topics like post-schooling and rehabilitation of motorists has intensified the contacts between advocates of traffic law and traffic psychologists in the last years.
(11) If Bennett were sentenced today under the new law, he likely would not receive a life sentence.
(12) There is precedent in Islamic law for saving the life of the mother where there is a clear choice of allowing either the fetus or the mother to survive.
(13) "We do not yet live in a society where the police or any other officers of the law are entitled to detain people without reasonable justification and demand their papers," Gardiner wrote.
(14) Their efforts will include blocking the NSA from undermining encryption and barring other law enforcement agencies from collecting US data in bulk.
(15) The law would let people find out if partners had a history of domestic violence but is likely to face objections from civil liberties groups.
(16) Four Dutch activists were charged in Murmansk this week under the law.
(17) The matter is now in the hands of the Guernsey police and the law officers.” One resident who is a constant target of the paper and has complained to police, Rosie Guille, said the allegations had a “huge impact on morale” on the island.
(18) Such a science puts men in a couple of scientific laws and suppresses the moment of active doing (accepting or refusing) as a sufficient preassumption of reality.
(19) I have heard from other workers that the list has also been provided to the law enforcement authorities,” Gain says.
(20) "Law is all I've ever wanted to do, but it's so competitive.
Precept
Definition:
(v. t.) To teach by precepts.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was George Wickham who, in Darcy's youth, by personal example and precept largely helped to keep him out of trouble.
(2) Rather, there are unwritten standards taught by precept and enforced at the level of science (e.g.
(3) Not one pound is getting through to elderly and frail people in our homes … It needs to get through to people who need it.” On the council tax precept , he added: “In northern constituencies they just won’t be able to raise the money, these are impoverished places like Knowsley or Birkenhead, where I am from.
(4) By having all second-year residents together, faculty teaching time was efficiently used, and the haphazard results from relying on faculty-resident precepting experiences in the family practice center to provide training in these areas was avoided.
(5) The elected commissioners would be responsible for the hiring and firing of chief constables and for setting the council tax "precept" that funds the force.
(6) In daily practice physicians are professionally obliged to interpret ethical precepts and laws in emergency situations under extreme pressure when resuscitation measures leave little or no time to consider deontological issues.
(7) Commonly accepted precepts are challenged: (1) that homologous chromosome pairing is normally mediated by nuclear envelope attachment sites; (2) that crossover site establishment awaits synaptic completion; and (3) that it is the function of the synaptonemal complex to hold homologues in register so that equal crossing over can occur, and perhaps to provide machinery for the crossover process.
(8) Herbert acknowledged that the direct government grant for policing was being cut by 20% in real terms over four years, but said this would be offset by increases in the precept (the funding from local council tax).
(9) He is planning to announce the lower threshold for 2015-16 on Wednesday, the same day as the local government finance settlement, but May has warned that police budgets are already under serious strain and it would cost police and crime commissioners £1.1m to stage a referendum if they wished to raise the police precept by more than 1%.
(10) In attempting to reach his objective, the restorative dentist must remember the fundamental precept of the health professions, which is: Do no harm.
(11) When certain basic precepts peculiar to this age group are observed, the treatment of shaft fractures in young children nevertheless carries a favorable prognosis.
(12) He said: "We were clearly the only ones playing with a straight bat and interested in applying the precepts of Scottish justice, which we continue to do and continue to uphold.
(13) It seems that a unified family structure reinforces a normative social behavior, but it fosters dependency and restricts breadth of preception and possibilities for exercising diversity in behavior.
(14) Ethical precepts are also violated by denying women their right to privacy and by the punitive actions taken against women undergoing abortion by physicians, other health workers, and antiabortion proponents.
(15) Human milk is a preferred food for full-term infants during the first six months of life; however, this precept does not suggest that all infants who are exclusively breast-fed will grow adequately.
(16) In the Precept pacing system, the right ventricular intracardiac impedance waveform is used to evaluate either of two indicators of metabolic demand relative right ventricular stroke volume and preejection interval (PEI).
(17) Young monks study the precepts of their religion in monasteries run by Chinese cadres, even though they know that if they fail to denounce the Dalai Lama they could be dragged away in the middle of the night to face torture and imprisonment.
(18) During the first eight months of the clerkship, 23 medical students were observed in a time and motion analysis and a study of the verbal content of the precepting interactions as students presented their patients to a preceptor.
(19) These thoughts about an ethic of international health can be summarized in a very free revision of the Hippocratic Oath: I will share the science and art by precept, by demonstration, and by every mode of teaching with other physicians regardless of their national origin.
(20) The wide gap between the precepts and practices prevailing among practitioners, the use of potent medicines without proper medical advice and the uninhibited sale of scheduled drugs over the pharmacy counter require careful consideration.