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law
English
- 🔊 the learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system“he studied law at Yale”
- 🔊 a rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society
- 🔊 a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature“the laws of thermodynamics”
- 🔊 legal document setting forth rules governing a particular kind of activity“there is a law against kidnapping”
- 🔊 the collection of rules imposed by authority“civilization presupposes respect for the law”
- 🔊 the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do
- 🔊 the force of policemen and officers“the law came looking for him”
Spanish
- 🔊 fuero law, laws
- 🔊 derecho law, jurisprudence (the study of laws)
- 🔊 fuero law, local law (especially in Navarra or the Basque Country)