Law-way
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A community's specific set of laws and legal practices.
"Finally, and in respect of the juristic level of the net law-way of a culture, the work of the police courts is as vital to a people as the “constitutional decisions” of the Highest Nine—not more vital, but as vital—in Cheyenne as in the United States."
Example
More examples"Finally, and in respect of the juristic level of the net law-way of a culture, the work of the police courts is as vital to a people as the “constitutional decisions” of the Highest Nine—not more vital, but as vital—in Cheyenne as in the United States."
Etymology
From law + -way; compare foodway.
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