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law | [in law] legal document setting forth rules governing a particular kind of activity | ||
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law, practice of law | [in law] the learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system | ||
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law, jurisprudence | the collection of rules imposed by authority | ||
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law, law of nature | a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature | ||
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law, natural law | a rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society | ||
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law, jurisprudence, legal philosophy | the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do | ||
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police, law, police force, constabulary | the force of policemen and officers |