Quotes containing word "law"

• Noun: legal document setting forth rules governing a particular kind of activity; example: "there is a law against kidnapping"

• Noun: the collection of rules imposed by authority; examples: "civilization presupposes respect for the law", "the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order"

• Noun: a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature; example: "the laws of thermodynamics"

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

• Noun: the learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system; example: "he studied law at Yale"

• Noun: the force of policemen and officers; example: "the law came looking for him"

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