All law synonyms

noun law

• proposal — the act of offering or suggesting something for acceptance, adoption, or performance.
• rule — a principle or regulation governing conduct, action, procedure, arrangement, etc.: the rules of chess.
• case — A particular case is a particular situation or incident, especially one that you are using as an individual example or instance of something.
• statute — Law. an enactment made by a legislature and expressed in a formal document. the document in which such an enactment is expressed.
• requirement — that which is required; a thing demanded or obligatory: One of the requirements of the job is accuracy.
• code — A code is a set of rules about how people should behave or about how something must be done.
• constitution — The constitution of a country or organization is the system of laws which formally states people's rights and duties.
• charter — A charter is a formal document describing the rights, aims, or principles of an organization or group of people.
• mandate — a command or authorization to act in a particular way on a public issue given by the electorate to its representative: The president had a clear mandate to end the war.
• decision — When you make a decision, you choose what should be done or which is the best of various possible actions.
• act — When you act, you do something for a particular purpose.
• legislation — the act of making or enacting laws.
• decree — A decree is an official order or decision, especially one made by the ruler of a country.
• precedent — Law. a legal decision or form of proceeding serving as an authoritative rule or pattern in future similar or analogous cases.
• regulation — a law, rule, or other order prescribed by authority, especially to regulate conduct.
• ruling — a principle or regulation governing conduct, action, procedure, arrangement, etc.: the rules of chess.
• charge — If you charge someone an amount of money, you ask them to pay that amount for something that you have sold to them or done for them.
• measure — a unit or standard of measurement: weights and measures.
• order — an authoritative direction or instruction; command; mandate.
• garnishment — Law. a warning, served on a third party to hold, subject to the court's direction, money or property belonging to a debtor who is being sued by a creditor. a summons to a third party to appear in litigation pending between a creditor and debtor.
• bidding — an order; command (often in the phrases do or follow the bidding of, at someone's bidding)
• demand — If one thing demands another, the first needs the second in order to happen or be dealt with successfully.
• prescription — Medicine/Medical. a direction, usually written, by the physician to the pharmacist for the preparation and use of a medicine or remedy. the medicine prescribed: Take this prescription three times a day.
• institute — to set up; establish; organize: to institute a government.
• instruction — machine instruction
• assize — a sitting of a legislative assembly or administrative body
• divestiture — the act of divesting.
• writ — Law. a formal order under seal, issued in the name of a sovereign, government, court, or other competent authority, enjoining the officer or other person to whom it is issued or addressed to do or refrain from some specified act. (in early English law) any formal document in letter form, under seal, and in the sovereign's name.
• subpoena — the usual writ for the summoning of witnesses or the submission of evidence, as records or documents, before a court or other deliberative body.
• caveat — A caveat is a warning of a specific limitation of something such as information or an agreement.
• jurisprudence — the science or philosophy of law.
• bylaw — A bylaw is a law which is made by a local authority and which applies only in their area.
• origin — something from which anything arises or is derived; source; fountainhead: to follow a stream to its origin.
• maxim — Hiram Percy, 1869–1936, U.S. inventor.
• proposition — the act of offering or suggesting something to be considered, accepted, adopted, or done.
• ground — the act of grinding.
• source — any thing or place from which something comes, arises, or is obtained; origin: Which foods are sources of calcium?
• assumption — If you make an assumption that something is true or will happen, you accept that it is true or will happen, often without any real proof.
• criterion — A criterion is a factor on which you judge or decide something.
• theorem — Mathematics. a theoretical proposition, statement, or formula embodying something to be proved from other propositions or formulas.
• usage — a customary way of doing something; a custom or practice: the usages of the last 50 years.
• formula — a set form of words, as for stating or declaring something definitely or authoritatively, for indicating procedure to be followed, or for prescribed use on some ceremonial occasion.
• postulate — to ask, demand, or claim.
• cause — a person or thing that acts, happens, or exists in such a way that some specific thing happens as a result; the producer of an effect: You have been the cause of much anxiety. What was the cause of the accident?
• axiom — An axiom is a statement or idea which people accept as being true.
• foundation — the basis or groundwork of anything: the moral foundation of both society and religion.
• fundamental — serving as, or being an essential part of, a foundation or basis; basic; underlying: fundamental principles; the fundamental structure.
• reason — a basis or cause, as for some belief, action, fact, event, etc.: the reason for declaring war.
• base — The base of something is its lowest edge or part.
• truth — the true or actual state of a matter: He tried to find out the truth.