law

nounrules of a government, society
nounstandard, principle of behavior

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noun rules of a government, society

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Word Origin & History

Old English lagu (plural laga, comb. form lah-) "law, ordinance, rule, regulation; district governed by the same laws," from Old Norse *lagu "law," collective plural of lag "layer, measure, stroke," literally "something laid down or fixed," from Proto-Germanic *lagan "put, lay" (see lay (v.)).

Replaced Old English æ and gesetnes, which had the same sense development as law. Cf. also statute, from Latin statuere; German Gesetz "law," from Old High German gisatzida; Lithuanian istatymas, from istatyti "set up, establish." In physics, from 1660s. Law and order have been coupled since 1796.

Example Sentences for law

If he should do so, the law would compel him to return her magnificent dowry.

There was a Spartan law forbidding masters to emancipate their slaves.

The commencement of a law and parliamentary library has been made.

There, by their law of entail, the same process is unswifter,—yet does it unvary.

He needs a clerk for his law matters, and the Dean said he would speak of me to him.

Then we wonder that respect for the law shows a sensible decrease!

Perhaps it was some law of opposites, and she needed some one of lighter nature than her own.

In a republic the first rule for the guidance of the citizen is obedience to law.

The first duty of law is to keep sound the society it serves.

The most malign of all these dangers today is disregard and disobedience of law.

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