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▸ noun:  (usually with "the") The body of binding rules and regulations, customs, and standards established in a community by its legislative and judicial authorities.
▸ noun:  The body of such rules that pertain to a particular topic.
▸ noun:  Common law, as contrasted with equity.
▸ noun:  A binding regulation or custom established in a community in this way.
▸ noun:  (more generally) A rule, such as:
▸ noun:  Any rule that must or should be obeyed, concerning behaviours and their consequences. (Compare mores.)
▸ noun:  A rule or principle regarding the construction of language or art.
▸ noun:  A statement (in physics, etc) of an (observed, established) order or sequence or relationship of phenomena which is invariable under certain conditions. (Compare theory.)
▸ noun:  (mathematics, logic) A statement (of relation) that is true under specified conditions; a mathematical or logical rule.
▸ noun:  Any statement of the relation of acts and conditions to their consequences.
▸ noun:  (linguistics) A sound law; a regular change in the pronunciation of a language.
▸ noun:  (cricket) One of the official rules of cricket as codified by the its (former) governing body, the MCC.
▸ noun:  The control and order brought about by the observance of such rules.
▸ noun:  (informal) A person or group that act(s) with authority to uphold such rules and order (for example, one or more police officers).
▸ noun:  The profession that deals with such rules (as lawyers, judges, police officers, etc).
▸ noun:  Jurisprudence, the field of knowledge which encompasses these rules.
▸ noun:  Litigation; legal action (as a means of maintaining or restoring order, redressing wrongs, etc).
▸ noun:  (now uncommon) An allowance of distance or time (a head start) given to a weaker (human or animal) competitor in a race, to make the race more fair.
▸ noun:  (aviation) A mode of operation of the flight controls of a fly-by-wire aircraft.
▸ noun:  (fantasy) One of two metaphysical forces ruling the world in some fantasy settings, also called order, and opposed to chaos.
▸ noun:  (law, chiefly historical) An oath sworn before a court, especially disclaiming a debt. (Chiefly in the phrases "wager of law", "wage one's law", "perform one's law", "lose one's law".)
▸ verb:  (obsolete) To work as a lawyer; to practice law.
▸ verb:  (transitive, intransitive, chiefly dialectal) To prosecute or sue (someone), to litigate.
▸ verb:  (nonstandard) To rule over (with a certain effect) by law; to govern.
▸ verb:  (informal) To enforce the law.
▸ verb:  To subject to legal restrictions.
▸ noun:  (obsolete) A tumulus of stones.
▸ noun:  (Northern England, Scotland, archaic) A hill.
▸ noun:  (dialectal or obsolete) A score; share of expense; legal charge.
▸ noun:  A surname originating as a patronymic.
▸ noun:  A male given name diminutive of Lawrence.
▸ noun:  A topographic surname from Old English, perhaps originally meaning someone who lives near a burial mound.
▸ noun:  (Scotland) a conical hill
▸ noun:  A village in South Lanarkshire council area, Scotland, United Kingdom (OS grid ref NS8252).
▸ noun:  (Judaism) the five Books of Moses, particularly the commandments in it, as well as their specification in the Mishnah and their further interpretation in later religious literature
▸ noun:  (Christianity, biblical) the commandments in the Books of Moses, sometimes seen as transcended by Christ
▸ noun:  (Christianity, less often) the commandments and moral principles that are binding for Christians, such as the Decalogue, the teachings of the New Testament, the Church Fathers, etc.
▸ noun:  A surname from Chinese.
▸ noun:  (military) Acronym of light anti-tank weapon.

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