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law

English

  1. 🔊 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”
  2. 🔊 a rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society
  3. 🔊 a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature
    “the laws of thermodynamics”
  4. 🔊 legal document setting forth rules governing a particular kind of activity
    “there is a law against kidnapping”
  5. 🔊 the collection of rules imposed by authority
    “civilization presupposes respect for the law”
  6. 🔊 the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do
  7. 🔊 the force of policemen and officers
    “the law came looking for him”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 fuero law, laws
  2. 🔊 derecho law, jurisprudence (the study of laws)
  3. 🔊 fuero law, local law (especially in Navarra or the Basque Country)

Similar words

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