law | Lernwerd

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1.The body of binding rules and regulations, customs, and standards established in a community by its legislative and judicial authorities.
- In theory, entrapment is against the law.
- The courts interpret the law but should not make it.
2.A binding regulation or custom established in a community in this way.
- A new law forbids driving on that road.
- There is a law against importing wallabies.
- The court ruled that the executive order was not law and nullified it.
3.A rule, such as:
- "Do unto others as you wish them to do unto you" is a good law to follow.
- Mathematical laws can be proved purely through mathematics, without scientific experimentation.
- Newton's third law of motion states that to every action there is always an equal and opposite reaction.
4.The control and order brought about by the observance of such rules.
- They worked to maintain law and order.
- It was a territory without law, marked by violence.

1.To subject to legal restrictions.
- No man knew what his water rights were until they had been lawed over, and lawed over, and lawed over again.
2.To enforce the law.(informal)
- De gram jury lawed me all de time an' dat place got too hot.
- The only time I ever got lawed [arrested] was for the union. Happened three times.
- The sheriff jabbed his thumb at his chest. "I run this shebang. Been doing so for forty-six years. You think you can come in here and preach lawing to me?

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Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *legʰ-der.

Proto-Germanic *lagą

Old Norse lag

Old Norse lǫgbor.

Old English lagu

Middle English lawe

English law