law

Noun

• the force of policemen and officers
  • the law came looking for him
    

• 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
    

• the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do

• a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature
  • the laws of thermodynamics
    

• a rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society

• 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 great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  police , police force , constabulary , practice of law , jurisprudence , legal philosophy , law of nature , natural law