ALL meanings of law
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L l - abbreviation Technical meaning of LAW software law 3
- noun law government laws 1
- noun law rules 1
- noun law scientific truth 1
- noun law rule, regulation 1
- noun law subset of law 1
- noun law legal studies 1
- noun law a specialized dictionary covering terms used in the various branches of the legal profession, as civil law, criminal law, and corporate law. A comprehensive legal dictionary adds to its body of standard English entries many words and phrases that have made their way into modern legal practice from law French and Latin and are rarely found in a general English monolingual dictionary. Such a specialized dictionary is useful not only for law students and for attorneys themselves, but for members of the lay public who require legal services. Legal dictionaries published in print follow the normal practice of sorting entry terms alphabetically, while electronic dictionaries, such as the online Dictionary of Law on Dictionary.com, allow direct, immediate access to a search term. 1
- noun law legal profession 1
- verb with object law Chiefly Dialect. to sue or prosecute. 1
- noun law written law 1
- verb with object law British. (formerly) to expeditate (an animal). 1
- noun law police 1
- idioms law be a law to / unto oneself, to follow one's own inclinations, rules of behavior, etc.; act independently or unconventionally, especially without regard for established mores. 1
- abbreviation LAW litigation 1
- idioms law lay down the law, to state one's views authoritatively. to give a command in an imperious manner: The manager laid down the law to the workers. 1
- noun law voluntary regulation 1
- idioms law take the law into one's own hands, to administer justice as one sees fit without recourse to the usual law enforcement or legal processes: The townspeople took the law into their own hands before the sheriff took action. 1
- noun law God's law 1
- noun law first five books of the Bible 1
- noun law The system of rules that a particular country or community recognizes as regulating the actions of its members and may enforce by the imposition of penalties. 1
- noun Definition of law in Technology (legal) Software may, under various circumstances and in various countries, be restricted by patent or copyright or both. Most commercial software is sold under some kind of software license. A patent normally covers the design of something with a function such as a machine or process. Copyright restricts the right to make and distribute copies of something written or recorded, such as a song or a book of recipies. Software has both these aspects - it embodies functional design in the algorithms and data structures it uses and it could also be considered as a recording which can be copied and "performed" (run). "Look and feel" lawsuits attempt to monopolize well-known command languages; some have succeeded. Copyrights on command languages enforce gratuitous incompatibility, close opportunities for competition, and stifle incremental improvements. The proper use of copyright is to prevent software piracy - unauthorised duplication of software. This is completely different from copying the idea behind the program in the same way that photocopying a book differs from writing another book on the same subject. 1
- noun law (Uncountable Noun) The body of rules and standards issued by a government, or to be applied by courts and similar authorities. 0
- noun law A particular such rule. 0
- noun law (more generally) A written or understood rule that concerns behaviours and their consequences. Laws are usually associated with mores. 0
- noun law (sciences, strictly) A well-established, observed physical characteristic or behavior of nature. The word is used to simply identify "what happens," without implying any explanatory mechanism or causation. Compare to theory. 0
- noun law (mathematics) A statement that is true under specified conditions. 0
- noun law A category of English "common law" petitions that request monetary relief, as opposed to relief in forms other than a monetary judgment; compare to "equity". 0
- noun law (cricket) One of the official rules of cricket as codified by the MCC. 0
- noun law (Slang) NU The police. 0
- noun law (fantasy) One of the two metaphysical forces of the world in some fantasy settings, as opposed to chaos. 0
- noun law An oath, as in the presence of a court. See wager of law. 0
- noun law (Obsolete (No longer in use)) a tumulus of stones. 0
- noun law (Scottish and northern dialectal, archaic) a hill. 0
- interjection law (dated) An exclamation of mild surprise; lawks. 0
- singular noun law The law is a system of rules that a society or government develops in order to deal with crime, business agreements, and social relationships. You can also use the law to refer to the people who work in this system. 0
- uncountable noun law Law is used to refer to a particular branch of the law, such as criminal law or company law. 0
- countable noun law A law is one of the rules in a system of law which deals with a particular type of agreement, relationship, or crime. 0
- noun plural law The laws of an organization or activity are its rules, which are used to organize and control it. 0
- countable noun law A law is a rule or set of rules for good behaviour which is considered right and important by the majority of people for moral, religious, or emotional reasons. 0
- countable noun law A law is a natural process in which a particular event or thing always leads to a particular result. 0
- countable noun law A law is a scientific rule that someone has invented to explain a particular natural process. 0
- uncountable noun law Law or the law is all the professions which deal with advising people about the law, representing people in court, or giving decisions and punishments. 0
- uncountable noun law Law is the study of systems of law and how laws work. 0
- noun law a rule or set of rules, enforceable by the courts, regulating the government of a state, the relationship between the organs of government and the subjects of the state, and the relationship or conduct of subjects towards each other 0
- noun law a rule or body of rules made by the legislature 0
- noun law a rule or body of rules made by a municipal or other authority 0
- noun law the condition and control enforced by such rules 0
- noun law (in combination) 0
- noun law a rule of conduct 0