noun
1.A generalization based on a fact or event perceived to be recurrent.
‘the first law of American corporate life is that dead wood floats’
‘The patterns I have been discussing in this section are of course generalizations, not iron laws.’
2.A rule defining correct procedure or behaviour in a sport.
‘the laws of the game’
‘He helped athletes to cheat, using drugs that broke sport’s doping laws.’
3.A statement of fact, deduced from observation, to the effect that a particular natural or scientific phenomenon always occurs if certain conditions are present.
‘the second law of thermodynamics’
‘As always my Zeroth law is that the best policy is no policy.’
4.An individual rule as part of a system of law.
‘a new law was passed to make divorce easier and simpler’
‘It is natural that these concepts should underpin the codified laws on equality before the law and fair trials.’
5.Something regarded as having binding force or effect.
‘he had supreme control—what he said was law’
‘So yes, it’s your story, and your word is law when it comes to deciding if your vote or the readers votes are the deciding ones’
6.Statute law and the common law.
‘The Texas statute is sumptuary law that has no value in jurisprudence or society.’
‘As long you do not get too far away from the statute which is the law that you have to apply.’
7.Systems of law as a subject of study or as the basis of the legal profession.
‘he was still practising law’
‘a law firm’
8.The body of divine commandments as expressed in the Bible or other religious texts.
‘Yet it takes only one sin for us to stand condemned according to God’s holy law.’
‘The Babylonian Code of Hammurabi called for an eye for an eye long before the Israelite law did.’
9.The Pentateuch as distinct from the other parts of the Hebrew Bible (the Prophets and the Writings).
‘Moses commanded us a Law, even the inheritance of the congregation of Jacob.’
‘The priest and the Levite who pass by unconcerned are the Old Testament law and prophets.’
10.The police.
‘he’d never been in trouble with the law in his life’
‘It doesn’t take long before he’s in trouble with the law but the police are prepared to do a deal with him.’
11.The precepts of the Pentateuch.
‘In the Old Testament, the law of Moses was given to the people on tablets of stone.’
‘The Talmud and Jewish law describe the mutual obligations of husband and wife.’
12.The system of rules which a particular country or community recognizes as regulating the actions of its members and which it may enforce by the imposition of penalties.
‘shooting the birds is against the law’
‘they were taken to court for breaking the law’
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noun
‘the first law of American corporate life is that dead wood floats’
