law

property law

There is a law against importing wallabies.

"Do unto others as you wish them to do unto you" is a good law to follow.

the laws of playwriting and poetry

Observing pi is easier than studying physical phenomena, because you can prove things in mathematics, whereas you can't prove anything in physics. And, unfortunately, the laws of physics change once every generation.

Mathematical laws can be proved purely through mathematics, without scientific experimentation.

the law of scarcity

Grimm's law

They worked to maintain law and order.

Here comes the law — run!

He is studying for a career in law.

She went to university to study law.

They were quick to go to law.

After a few minutes' waiting, two well-known runners, chosen for the hares, buckled on the four bags filled with scent, compared their watches with those of young Brooke and Thome, and started off at a long, slinging trot across the fields in the direction of Barby. Then the hounds clustered round Thome, who explained shortly, "They're to have six minutes' law."

normal law; alternate law; direct law

As to the depriving the defendant of waging his law, it was thought, the practice merited discouragement, as a temptation to perjury.