What does LAW mean?

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. law, jurisprudencenoun

    the collection of rules imposed by authority

    "civilization presupposes respect for the law"; "the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order"

  2. lawnoun

    legal document setting forth rules governing a particular kind of activity

    "there is a law against kidnapping"

  3. law, natural lawnoun

    a rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society

  4. law, law of naturenoun

    a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature

    "the laws of thermodynamics"

  5. jurisprudence, law, legal philosophynoun

    the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do

  6. law, practice of lawnoun

    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"

  7. police, police force, constabulary, lawnoun

    the force of policemen and officers

    "the law came looking for him"

GCIDE

  1. Lawnoun

    The Jewish or Mosaic code, and that part of Scripture where it is written, in distinction from the gospel; hence, also, the Old Testament. Specifically: the first five books of the bible, called also Torah, Pentatech, or Law of Moses.

Wiktionary

  1. Lawnoun

    a conical hill

  2. Lawnoun

    the Torah

  3. Lawnoun

    a generic term which can refer to the Divine commandments (primarily the Decalogue), the Old Testament in general or, most specifically, the Torah.

  4. Lawnoun

    A patronymic surname.

  5. Lawnoun

    A diminutive of Lawrence.

  6. Etymology: From the given name Lawrence.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. LAWnoun

    Etymology: laga , Saxon; loi, French; lawgh, Erse.

    Unhappy man! to break the pious laws
    Of nature, pleading in his children’s cause. Dryden.

    He hath resisted law,
    And therefore law shall scorn him further trial
    Than the severity of publick power. William Shakespeare, Coriolanus.

    Thou art a robber,
    A law-breaker, a villain; yield thee, thief. William Shakespeare.

    Our nation would not give laws to the Irish, therefore now the Irish gave laws to them. John Davies, on Ireland.

    One law is split into two. Thomas Baker, Reflect. on Learning.

    When every case in law is right. William Shakespeare, King Lear.

    Who has a breast so pure,
    But some uncleanly apprehensions
    Keep leets and law days, and in sessions sit,
    With meditations lawful. William Shakespeare, Othello.

    Tom Touchy is a fellow famous for taking the law of every body: there is not one in the town where he lives that he has not sued at a quarter-sessions. Joseph Addison, Spectator.

    In a rebellion,
    When what’s not meet, but what must be, was law,
    Then were they chosen. William Shakespeare, Coriolanus.

    I dy’d, whilst in the womb he stay’d,
    Attending Nature’s law. William Shakespeare, Cymbeline.

Wikipedia

  1. Law

    Law is a set of rules that are created and are enforceable by social or governmental institutions to regulate behavior, with its precise definition a matter of longstanding debate. It has been variously described as a science and as the art of justice. State-enforced laws can be made by a group legislature or by a single legislator, resulting in statutes; by the executive through decrees and regulations; or established by judges through precedent, usually in common law jurisdictions. Private individuals may create legally binding contracts, including arbitration agreements that adopt alternative ways of resolving disputes to standard court litigation. The creation of laws themselves may be influenced by a constitution, written or tacit, and the rights encoded therein. The law shapes politics, economics, history and society in various ways and serves as a mediator of relations between people. Legal systems vary between jurisdictions, with their differences analysed in comparative law. In civil law jurisdictions, a legislature or other central body codifies and consolidates the law. In common law systems, judges may make binding case law through precedent, although on occasion this may be overturned by a higher court or the legislature. Historically, religious law has influenced secular matters and is, as of the 21st century, still in use in some religious communities. Sharia law based on Islamic principles is used as the primary legal system in several countries, including Iran and Saudi Arabia.The scope of law can be divided into two domains. Public law concerns government and society, including constitutional law, administrative law, and criminal law. Private law deals with legal disputes between individuals and/or organisations in areas such as contracts, property, torts/delicts and commercial law. This distinction is stronger in civil law countries, particularly those with a separate system of administrative courts; by contrast, the public-private law divide is less pronounced in common law jurisdictions.Law provides a source of scholarly inquiry into legal history, philosophy, economic analysis and sociology. Law also raises important and complex issues concerning equality, fairness, and justice.

ChatGPT

  1. law

    Law is a system of rules formulated by governmental or social institutions to regulate the actions of its members and maintain order. These rules, enforced by the imposition of penalties, can be either prescriptive (telling what to do) or prohibitive (telling what not to do). Laws can be based on written statutes, common law precedents, regulations, or decrees, and they regulate all areas of life, including civil, criminal, administrative, and international matters.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Lawnoun

    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

  2. Lawnoun

    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

  3. Lawnoun

    the Jewish or Mosaic code, and that part of Scripture where it is written, in distinction from the gospel; hence, also, the Old Testament

  4. Lawnoun

    an organic rule, as a constitution or charter, establishing and defining the conditions of the existence of a state or other organized community

  5. Lawnoun

    any edict, decree, order, ordinance, statute, resolution, judicial, decision, usage, etc., or recognized, and enforced, by the controlling authority

  6. Lawnoun

    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

  7. Lawnoun

    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

  8. Lawnoun

    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

  9. Lawnoun

    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

  10. Lawnoun

    legal science; jurisprudence; the principles of equity; applied justice

  11. Lawnoun

    trial by the laws of the land; judicial remedy; litigation; as, to go law

  12. Lawnoun

    an oath, as in the presence of a court

  13. Lawverb

    same as Lawe, v. t

  14. Law

    an exclamation of mild surprise

  15. Etymology: [OE. lawe, laghe, AS. lagu, from the root of E. lie: akin to OS. lag, Icel. lg, Sw. lag, Dan. lov; cf. L. lex, E. legal. A law is that which is laid, set, or fixed; like statute, fr. L. statuere to make to stand. See Lie to be prostrate.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Law

    law, n. a rule of action established by authority: statute: the rules of a community or state: a rule or principle of science or art: the whole jurisprudence or the science of law: established usage: that which is lawful: the whole body of persons connected professionally with the law: litigation: a theoretical principle educed from practice or observation: a statement or formula expressing the constant order of certain phenomena: (theol.) the Mosaic code or the books containing it.—v.t. (coll.) to give law to, determine.—v.i. (obs.) to go to law.—adj. Law′-abid′ing, obedient to the law.—ns. Law-bind′ing; Law′-book, a book treating of law or law cases; Law′-break′er, one who violates a law; Law′-burr′ows (Scots law), a writ requiring a person to give security against doing violence to another; Law′-calf, a book-binding in smooth, pale-brown calf; Law′-day, a day of open court.—adj. Law′ful, allowed by law: rightful.—adv. Law′fully.—ns. Law′fulness; Law′giver, one who enacts laws: a legislator.—adj. Law′giving, legislating.—n. Law′ing, going to law: litigation: (obs.) the practice of cutting off the claws and balls of a dog's forefeet to hinder it from hunting: (Scot.) a reckoning at a public-house, a tavern bill.—adj. Law′less.—adv. Law′lessly.—ns. Law′lessness; Law′-list, an annual publication containing all information regarding the administration of law and the legal profession; Law′-lord, a peer in parliament who holds or has held high legal office: in Scotland, a judge of the Court of Session; Law′-mak′er, a lawgiver; Law′-man, one of a select body with magisterial powers in some of the Danish towns of early England; Law′-mer′chant, a term applied to the customs which have grown up among merchants in reference to mercantile documents and business; Law′-mong′er, a low pettifogging lawyer; Law′-stā′tioner, a stationer who sells parchment and other articles needed by lawyers; Law′suit, a suit or process in law; Law′-writ′er, a writer on law: a copier or engrosser of legal papers; Law′yer, a practitioner in the law: (N.T.) an interpreter of the Mosaic Law: the stem of a brier.—Law Latin, Latin as used in law and legal documents, being a mixture of Latin with Old French and Latinised English words; Law of nations, now international law, originally applied to those ethical principles regarded as obligatory on all communities; Law of nature (see Nature); Law of the land, the established law of a country; Laws of association (see Association); Laws of motion (see Motion); Lawful day, one on which business may be legally done—not a Sunday or a public holiday.—Boyle's (erroneously called Mariotte's) law (physics), in gases, the law that, for a given quantity at a given temperature, the pressure varies inversely as the volume—discovered by Robert Boyle in 1662, and treated in a book by Mariotte in 1679; Brehon law (see Brehon); Canon law (see Canon); Case law, law established by judicial decision in particular cases, in contradistinction to statute law; Common law (see Common); Criminal law, the law which relates to crimes and their punishment; Crown law, that part of the common law of England which is applicable to criminal matters; Customary law (see Consuetudinary); Empirical law, a law induced from observation or experiment, and though valid for the particular instances observed, not to be relied on beyond the conditions on which it rests; Federal law, law prescribed by the supreme power of the United States, as opposed to state law; Forest law, the code of law which was drawn up to preserve the forests, &c., forming the special property of the English kings; Gresham's law (polit. econ.), the law that of two forms of currency the inferior or more depreciated tends to drive the other from circulation, owing to the hoarding and exportation of the better form; Grimm's law (philol.), the law formulating certain changes or differences which the mute consonants exhibit in corresponding words in the Teutonic branches of the Aryan family of languages—stated by Jacob Grimm (1785-1863); International law (see International); Judiciary law, that part of the law which has its source in the decisions and adjudications of the courts; Kepler's laws, three laws of planetary motion discovered by Johann Kepler (1571-1630)—viz. (1) the orbits of the planets are ellipses with the sun at one focus; (2) the areas described by their radii vectores in equal times are equal; (3) the squares of their periodic times vary as the cubes of their mean distances from the sun; Lynch law (see Lynch); Maine law, a prohibitory liquor law passed by the legislature of Maine State, U.S.A., in 1851; Maritime, Martial, Mercantile, Military law (see the adjs.); May laws, several Prussian enactments (1873-74) directed to control the action of the Church, and limit its interference in civil matters, largely modified in 1887—often called Falk laws, from the introducer; Moral law, that portion of the Old Testament which relates to moral principles, especially the ten commandments; Mosaic, Municipal, Natural law (see the adjs.); Ohm's law, the basis of electrical measurements, established in 1827 by Ohm (1787-1854), that the resistance of a conductor is measured by the ratio of the electromotive force between its two ends to the current flowing through it; Poor-law, -laws, laws providing for the support of paupers at the public expense; Positive law, law owing its force to human sanction as opposed to divine law; Private law (see Private); Roman law, the system of law developed by the ancient Romans, and often termed the civil law (q.v.); Salic law (see Salian); Statute law (see Statute); Sumptuary law (see Sumptuary); Verner's law (philol.), a law stated by Karl Verner in 1875, showing the effect of the position of accent in the shifting of the original Aryan mute consonants, and s, into Low German, and explaining the most important anomalies in the application of Grimm's law; Written law, statute law as distinguished from the common law.—Have the law of (coll.), to enforce the law against; Lay down the law, to state authoritatively or dictatorially. [M. E. lawe—A.S. lagu, from licgan, to lie; Ice. lōg.]

The Roycroft Dictionary

  1. law

    1. A scheme for protecting the parasite and prolonging the life of the rogue, averting the natural consequences which would otherwise come to them. 2. The crystallization of public opinion.

Editors Contribution

  1. law

    A rule of conduct or procedure cocreated by collective agreement or authority.

    The law is cocreated by various types of politicians within the parliament.


    Submitted by MaryC on January 2, 2020  


  2. law

    A set of rules cocreated by a unity senate, houses of representatives, unity assembly, unity council, unity legislature, unity parliament, unity government, local unity government, regional unity government, national unity government, european unity government or international unity government who are all focused positively on cocreating optimum health, human rights, right to life, socialism, shared and equal prosperity for all, stability, socialist unity government, solidarity, cohesion, animal rights, right to housing, right to free education, right to parent, right to free preschool education, right to a standard of living, equal and identical pay for all, a universal living income system, right to internet access, economic stability, financial stability, civil rights, equal rights, equal opportunities, employment rights, childrens rights, sustainable development, sustainable development goals, united partnership, multi-party working, community empowerment systems, equal redistribution of wealth, fairness and justness across society, the country, europe and the world and contribute to the cocreation of international and national peace agreements, peace treaties, the universes truth and a fair, just and transparent system of checks and balances.

    The law says we focus on the cocreation of optimum health as the priority and then human rights, animal rights, right for life and shared and equal prosperity for all.


    Submitted by MaryC on January 2, 2020  


  3. law

    To create, change, amend, approve, edit, enact or legislate for a rule of conduct, legislative procedure, set of rules, guidelines or principles with the prioritizing of cocreating optimum health, human rights, socialism, socialist policies, shared prosperity for all, stability, socialist unity government, solidarity, cohesion, animal rights, right to life, right to housing, right to free education, right to parent, right to free preschool education, right to a standard of living, equal and identical pay for all, a universal living income system, right to internet access, economic stability, financial stability, civil rights, equal rights, equal opportunities, employment rights, childrens rights, sustainable development, sustainable development goals, united partnership, multi-party working, community empowerment systems, equal redistribution of wealth, fairness and justness across society, the country, europe and the world and contribute to the cocreation of international and national peace agreements, peace treaties, the universes truth and a fair, just and transparent system of checks and balances.

    Law and legislation is important to each human being and animal on the planet as we are all contributing to what manifests on planet earth through our collective consciousness.


    Submitted by MaryC on April 1, 2020  


  4. law

    A form of agreement or fasttrack within the collective consciousness of a country or jurisdiction that complies with the universes truth, collective plan for the evolution of humanity and soul agreements to ensure optimum health, human rights, right to life, fairness, justness, a form of socialist unity government and the redistribution of wealth.

    Law is created in various ways.


    Submitted by MaryC on June 6, 2020  

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Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. LAW

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Law is ranked #1089 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Law surname appeared 32,122 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 11 would have the surname Law.

    65.6% or 21,075 total occurrences were White.
    15.6% or 5,021 total occurrences were Black.
    14.2% or 4,568 total occurrences were Asian.
    2% or 668 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    2% or 665 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    0.3% or 125 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.

British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'LAW' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #302

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'LAW' in Written Corpus Frequency: #897

  3. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'LAW' in Nouns Frequency: #74

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of LAW in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of LAW in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of LAW in a Sentence

  1. William Cobbett:

    Women are a sisterhood. They make common cause in behalf of the sex; and, indeed, this is natural enough, when we consider the vast power that the law gives us over them.

  2. Bernie Sanders:

    What is outrageous to me is not only Starbucks’ anti-union activities and their willingness to break the law, it is their calculated and intentional efforts to stall, stall and stall.

  3. Hedy Weinberg:

    The Bible should not be used as a political football, the First Amendment makes it clear that government cannot favor one religion over another and politicians should not try to influence what people believe by turning their personal religious viewpoints into law.

  4. Hillary Clinton:

    I would certainly take that under advisement, i mean, he is brilliant and he can set forth an argument and he was a law professor. He has got all the credentials.

  5. Anon Nampha:

    The junta is using the law as a tool for political purposes, what we did was to highlight graft and we will continue to do this as is our right - our purpose was not political.

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