Law
//lɔː//
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The word "law" can be used as noun, proper noun, verb and intj.
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Amagat's law Amara's law Amdahl's law Ammon's law Ampère's circuital law Ampère's force law Ampère's law Arndt-Schulz law Ashby's law Atwood's Law Avogadro's law Babo's law Baby Moses law Basquin's law Baxter's law Bayes' law Beer's law Beer-Lambert law Beer-Lambert-Bouguer law Benford's law Bennett's law Betteridge's law Betteridge's law of headlines Betz's law BigLaw Bode's law Bouguer's law Bowley's law Boyle's law Boyle-Mariotte law Bradford's law Bragg's law Brandolini's law Brewster's law Brooks's law Buys Ballot's law Carnot's law Cassie's law Charles' law Charles's law Christian sharia law Conway's law Cope's law Coulomb's law Coulter's Law Courvoisier's law Cowgill's law Curie's law Curie-Weiss law Dahl's law Dalton's law Danth's law Darcy's law De Morgan's law Descartes law Dollo's law Duverger's law Dybo's law Eichner's law Emmert's law Engel's law English and Welsh law English law Enoch Arden law Eroom's law Eurolaw Faraday's law Fechner's law Finagle's law Fitts' law Fitts's law Fourier's law Gauss's law Gay-Lussac's law Geiger-Nuttall law God's law Godwin's law Gompertz-Makeham law Good Samaritan law Goodhart's law Graham's law Granger law Grassmann's law Gresham's law Grimm's law Grosch's law Grotthuss-Draper law Gustafson's law Haldane's law Hardy-Weinberg law Healey's first law of holes Healey's law Heaps' law Hellin's law Henry's law Henry's law constant Hess's law Hilt's law Hirt's law Hofstadter's law Hooke's law Hubble law Hubble's law Hume's law Hyrum's law IT law Jim Crow law Jordan's law Joule's law Jurin's law Kepler's law Kepler's laws of planetary motion Kerchoff's laws Kirchhoff's current law Kirchhoff's voltage law Kluge's law Knight-Darwin law Kohlrausch's law Lambert's cosine law Lambert's emission law Lambert's law Lambert-Beer law Lanchester's law Largo Law Leavitt law Leibniz's law Lemaître's law Lenz's law Lewis's law Little's law Littlewood's law Lotka's law Lubarsky's law of cybernetic entomology Lyman's law Maas's law Maine law Marconi's law Mariotte's law Meckel-Serres law Meillet's law Menzerath's law Metcalfe's law Miles' law Mitscherlich's law Mooers's law Moore's law Muphry's law Murphy's law Newton's first law Newton's law of cooling Newton's law of gravitation Newton's laws of motion Newton's second law Newton's third law O'Sullivan's law Ohm's law Okun's law Panini's law Pareto's law Parkinson's law Pascal's law Paschen's law Peirce's law Plateau's law Poe's law Poiseuille's law Postel's law Pournelle's law Price's law Raoult's law Rayleigh-Jeans law Ribot's law Riepl's law Roman law Roman-Dutch law Romeo and Juliet law Salic law Sanio's law Sarah's Law Say's law Schneier's law Scots law Scottish law Shine the Light Law Sievers' law Sievers's law Sieverts' law Snell's law Sod's law Son of Sam law Stang's law Stark-Einstein law Stefan-Boltzmann law Stigler's law Stokes' law Sturgeon's law Szemerényi's law TRAP law Talbot's law Talbot-Plateau law Tay's law Thurneysen's law Titius-Bode law Torricelli's law Tranzschel's law Van der Waals law Verner's law Vierordt's law Virchow's law Weber-Fechner law Weise's law Welsh law Westlaw Wiedemann-Franz law Wien's displacement law Winter's law Wirth's law Wolff's law Worthington's law Yerkes-Dodson law Yog's Law Zawinski's law Zipf's law above the law administrative law admiralty law against the law alternate law arbitrary law as a matter of law astrolaw attorney at law attorney-at-law bad facts make bad law basic law below the law black letter law black-letter law blawg blue law blue sky law blue-sky law book law broken power law business law by-law bye-law bylaw canon law case law chemical law chthonic law civil law civil law notary club law color of law combined gas law commercial law common law common-law common-law marriage company law con law conservation law constitutional law contract law corn law corn laws corporate law corporation law cosine law counterlaw court of law criminal law cube-square law customary international law cyberlaw de Morgan's laws decisional law direct law divine law due process of law e-law ecclesiastical law employment law every law has a loophole every law has its loophole extreme risk law family law federal law feudal law financial law fiscal law framework law gas law good law hard cases make bad law have the law of have the law of someone heir at law heir-at-law ideal gas law in the eyes of the law in the name of the law in-law inheritance law inlaw international humanitarian law international law into law inverse-square law iron law judge-made law labor law labour law law Latin law abider law agent law and order law binding law calf law clerk law court law day law dictionary law enforcement law firm law leather law list law lord law merchant law of Hobson-Jobson law of attraction law of averages law of conservation of mass law of contradiction law of correspondence law of cosines law of demand law of diminishing marginal utility law of diminishing returns law of double negation law of excluded middle law of holes law of identity law of large numbers law of love law of majestas law of markets law of nations law of nature law of non-contradiction law of noncontradiction law of nontriviality law of obligations law of one law of one price law of parsimony law of sines law of small numbers law of sufficient reason law of tangents law of the Medes and the Persians law of the excluded middle law of the instrument law of the jungle law of the land law of the sea law of the tongue law of unintended consequences law of volumes law of war law review law school law shopping law suit law unto oneself law-abiding law-biding law-breaker law-enforcement law-enforcer law-maker law-trained law-way law-ways lawbook lawbot lawbreaker lawbreaking lawclerk lawcode lawcraft lawfare lawful lawgiver lawgiving lawless lawlike lawly lawmaker lawmaking lawmonger lawscape lawsome lawspeaker lawsuit lay down the law lemon law letter of the law limb of the law long arm of the law lynch law malice in law man of law maritime law martial law matter of law metalaw military law mob law natural law necessity knows no law neurolaw nonlaw normal law notary-at-law one's word is law operation of law oral law organic law outlaw paenultima law patent law penal law penultima law periodic law personal law physical law poor law positive law possession is nine points of the law possession is nine-tenths of the law power law powerlaw precedential law prelaw private international law private law procedural law property law pseudolaw public international law public law question of law red flag law red letter law regulatory law retroactive law rule of law scofflaw sergeant-at-law serjeant-at-law sharia law shield law sign into law sine law sound law space law spirit of the law square-cube law stand-your-ground law state law statute law statutory law stepmother-in-law sublaw substantive law sumptuary law sunset law sunshine law sus law suss law take law into one's own hands take the law into one's hands take the law into one's own hands tax law the law is a ass the law is an ass there ought to be a law there oughta be a law there oughtta be a law thief in law three laws of robotics three-strikes law threefold law tort law trade law trigger law trite law trust law ugly law unlaw unwritten law van 't Hoff's law von Babo's law water law windward of the law zero-one law
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administration amendment and order arrest attorney behavior behaviour break broken bush bush is business chaos code codes codified commandment common common rules compelling condition conflicts congress congress writes consequence constitution controlling controlling behavior court court business court function court rules courtrooms courts cricket criminals debt decalogue decides deciding deciding guilt declaration decree decreed definition diminutive discipline doctrine document education element enforce enforcement field for lawyers function govern governing governing rules government government constitution government rule government rules gravity guilt head start implication in courts invariable job judge judge decides judge jury judges judges courts judges enforce judges rule judges rules judicial judicial legality judicial rule jurisprudence jury justice justice rules keeping keeping order lawe lawks lawyer lawyers legal legal code legal declaration legal definition legal discipline legal doctrine legal document legal element legal implication legal obligation legal order legal practice legal rule legal rules legal study legal thing legal writings legality legislation legislation result legislative legislature like like order litigate litigation mandate mcc morals national national rule nations nations rules oath obey obligation official official rule official rules old testament order ordinance penal penal code phenomena police police job police rules police uphold police upholds policemen practice principle prosecute regulation regulation rule restriction restrictive result rule rule government rule regulation rules rules courts rules legislation social social rules society society rule society rules solving solving conflicts state state rules statement statute stopping stopping criminals study subject sue tenet torah unbreakable uphold upholds writes writing writings written written commandment written justice written rules
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