Law is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for LAW in dictionary:

VERB:
• (obsolete) to take to court
• Same as Lawe, v. t.
• prosecute
NOUN:
• the system of rules which a particular country or community recognizes as regulating the actions of its members and which it may enforce by the imposition of penalties
• an individual rule as part of a system of law
• systems of law as a subject of study or as the basis of the legal profession
• statute law and the common law.
• something regarded as having binding force or effect
• the police
• a rule defining correct procedure or behaviour in a sport
• a statement of fact, deduced from observation, to the effect that a particular natural or scientific phenomenon always occurs if certain conditions are present
• a generalization based on a fact or event perceived to be recurrent
• the body of divine commandments as expressed in the Bible or other religious texts.
• the Pentateuch as distinct from the other parts of the Hebrew Bible (the Prophets and the Writings).
• the precepts of the Pentateuch.
• rule binding on a community
• 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.
• 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.
• The Jewish or Mosaic code, and that part of Scripture where it is written, in distinction from the gospel; hence, also, the Old Testament.
• An organic rule, as a constitution or charter, establishing and defining the conditions of the existence of a state or other organized community.
• Any edict, decree, order, ordinance, statute, resolution, judicial, decision, usage, etc., or recognized, and enforced, by the controlling authority.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Legal science; jurisprudence; the principles of equity; applied justice.
• Trial by the laws of the land; judicial remedy; litigation; as, to go law.
• An oath, as in the presence of a court.
• the collection of rules imposed by authority
• legal document setting forth rules governing a particular kind of activity
• a rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society
• a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature
• the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do
• the learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system
• the force of policemen and officers
INTERJECTION:
• An exclamation of mild surprise.
ADJECTIVE:
• (Scots) low
• (in archaic usage) low
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to take a complaint to court for settlement

Words related to LAW

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How to use LAW in a sentence

• A CORRECT understanding of the law of growth is of the highest importance to the student of Mental Science.
• Thus, one set of sea-citizens is exempted from a law that is hung in terror over others.
• It cannot be that you think of placing that young gentleman and myself in the hands of the law.
• But the technical language of the law runs from his pen as part of his vocabulary and parcel of his thought.
• Jerry, it seems, had his own opinions, one of which was, that there existed no law in the constitution for hanging a Protestant.
• It is certain that the Irish landlords know this, and that they are reluctant to see any law enacted which might make the performance of their duties to the poor compulsory.
• Never could a son of Israel have surrendered himself more eagerly to the law.
• Deep in the heart of things is a beneficent and universal law.
• But before Christ was born the old law was still in force.
• Secondly, Divorce Law Reform in the right interests of women and the future must involve the complete protection of both from, for instance, the drunken husband.
• It cannot be otherwise, because natural love is the fundamental law of human life.
• Cube, symbol of the Force of the People, expressed as a Law of the State, 5-l.
• Volatile applied to everything that more readily obeys the law of movement, 778-l.
• Before leaving Natchez, I procured all the documents required by law.
• This gentleman was a native of Ireland, and was bred to the Law.
• At first an actor, he afterwards studied law and was called to the English bar in 1762.
• It is vital to the understanding of what the law is, it is vital to the validity of this devise.
• The morality is rooted in and based on the moral of the Bible and then on the developed Moslem law and has absorbed in itself some of the elements of the ethics of Christianity.
• Destruction of food stuffs highly criminal by early law.
• He also pursued the study of law, entering his name in 1858 as a student in a law office in Cleveland, but studying in Hiram.
• They could not refuse to obey the law because it would not go into effect until November.
• It was formed largely on the model of the Roman law, and it largely borrowed from it, though it is full of non-Roman elements.
• So he chose emigration, and was shipped off, upon condition that if he ever again set foot in England he should be forthwith turned over to the merciless law.
• If the clergy were unjustly accused of these offences, a law of general prohibition would not touch them.
• For I came to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.

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