meaning of law
1. In general, a rule of being or of conduct, established by an authority able to enforce its will; a controlling regulation; the mode or order according to which an agent or a power acts.
2. In morals: The will of God as the rule for the disposition and conduct of all responsible beings toward him and toward each other; a rule of living, conformable to righteousness; the rule of action as obligatory on the conscience or moral nature.
3. The Jewish or Mosaic code, and that part of Scripture where it is written, in distinction from the gospel; hence, also, the Old Testament.
4. An organic rule, as a constitution or charter, establishing and defining the conditions of the existence of a state or other organized community.
5. Any edict, decree, order, ordinance, statute, resolution, judicial, decision, usage, etc. , or recognized, and enforced, by the controlling authority.
6. In philosophy and physics: A rule of being, operation, or change, so certain and constant that it is conceived of as imposed by the will of God or by some controlling authority; as, the law of gravitation; the laws of motion; the law heredity; the laws of thought; the laws of cause and effect; law of self-preservation.
7. In matematics: The rule according to which anything, as the change of value of a variable, or the value of the terms of a series, proceeds; mode or order of sequence.
8. In arts, works, games, etc. : The rules of construction, or of procedure, conforming to the conditions of success; a principle, maxim; or usage; as, the laws of poetry, of architecture, of courtesy, or of whist.
9. Collectively, the whole body of rules relating to one subject, or emanating from one source; -- including usually the writings pertaining to them, and judicial proceedings under them; as, divine law; English law; Roman law; the law of real property; insurance law.
10. Legal science; jurisprudence; the principles of equity; applied justice.
11. Trial by the laws of the land; judicial remedy; litigation; as, to go law.
12. An oath, as in the presence of a court.
13. Same as Lawe, v. t.
14. An exclamation of mild surprise.
15. law software law LAWN wireless local area network Lawrence Livermore Labs Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory LLNL A research organaisatin operated by the University of California under a contract with the US Department of Energy. LLNL was founded on 2 September 1952 at the site of an old World War II naval air station. The Lab employs researchers from many scientific and engineering disciplines. Some of its departments are the National Ignition Facility, the Human Genome Center, the ASCI Tera-Scale Computing partnership, the Computer Security Technology Center, and the Site 300 Experimental Test Facility. Other research areas are Astronomy and Astrophysics, Atmospheric Science, Automation and Robotics, Biology, Chemistry, Computing, Energy Research, Engineering, Environmental Science, Fusion, Geology and Geophysics, Health, Lasers and Optics, Materials Science, National Security, Physics, Sensors and Instrumentation, Space Science. LLNL also works with industry in research and licensing projects. At the end of fiscal year 1995, the lab had signed agreements for 193 cost-shared research projects involving 201 companies and worth nearly $600m. Home http://www. llnl. gov/. Address: Fremont, California, USA.
16. 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
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