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      noun
      (usually with "the") The body of binding rules and regulations, customs, and standards established in a community by its legislative and judicial authorities.
      The body of such rules that pertain to a particular topic.
      Common law, as contrasted with equity.
      A binding regulation or custom established in a community in this way.
      (more generally) A rule, such as:
      Any rule that must or should be obeyed, concerning behaviours and their consequences. (Compare mores.)
      A rule or principle regarding the construction of language or art.
      A statement (in physics, etc) of an (observed, established) order or sequence or relationship of phenomena which is invariable under certain conditions. (Compare theory.)
      (mathematics, logic) A statement (of relation) that is true under specified conditions; a mathematical or logical rule.
      Any statement of the relation of acts and conditions to their consequences.
      (linguistics) A sound law; a regular change in the pronunciation of a language.
      (cricket) One of the official rules of cricket as codified by the its (former) governing body, the MCC.
      The control and order brought about by the observance of such rules.
      (informal) A person or group that act(s) with authority to uphold such rules and order (for example, one or more police officers).
      The profession that deals with such rules (as lawyers, judges, police officers, etc).
      Jurisprudence, the field of knowledge which encompasses these rules.
      Litigation; legal action (as a means of maintaining or restoring order, redressing wrongs, etc).
      (now uncommon) An allowance of distance or time (a head start) given to a weaker (human or animal) competitor in a race, to make the race more fair.
      (aviation) A mode of operation of the flight controls of a fly-by-wire aircraft.
      (fantasy) One of two metaphysical forces ruling the world in some fantasy settings, also called order, and opposed to chaos.
      (Judaism) Synonym of Torah: the five Books of Moses, particularly the commandments in it, as well as their specification in the Mishnah and their further interpretation in later religious literature.
      (Christianity, biblical) the commandments in the Books of Moses, sometimes seen as transcended by Christ
      (Christianity, less often) the commandments and moral principles that are binding for Christians, such as the Decalogue, the teachings of the New Testament, the Church Fathers, etc.
      A surname originating as a patronymic.
      A diminutive of the male given name Lawrence.
      A topographic surname from Old English, perhaps originally meaning someone who lives near a burial mound.
      (Scotland) a conical hill
      A village in South Lanarkshire council area, Scotland, United Kingdom (OS grid ref NS8252).
      A surname from Chinese.
      (military) Acronym of light anti-tank weapon.
      (law, chiefly historical) An oath sworn before a court, especially disclaiming a debt. (Chiefly in the phrases "wager of law", "wage one's law", "perform one's law", "lose one's law".)
      (obsolete) A tumulus of stones.
      (Northern England, Scotland, archaic) A hill.
      (dialectal or obsolete) A score; share of expense; legal charge.
      verb
      (informal) To enforce the law.
      To subject to legal restrictions.
      (ambitransitive, chiefly dialectal) To prosecute or sue (someone), to litigate.
      (nonstandard) To rule over (with a certain effect) by law; to govern.
      (obsolete) To work as a lawyer; to practice law.
      Synonyms for law
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