Law-ways

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Noun
  1. 1
    A community's specific set of laws and legal practices. plural, plural-normally

    "We have aimed at the development of a social science instrument for the recording and interpretation of law-ways among primitive peoples; the Cheyennes and their Way provide the subject material."

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"We have aimed at the development of a social science instrument for the recording and interpretation of law-ways among primitive peoples; the Cheyennes and their Way provide the subject material."

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