(law) A category of law governing the relationship between the state on the one hand and persons (citizens or legal persons including corporations) on the other. Constitutional law, administrative law and criminal law are some of the major subdivisions of public law.

(law) The area of law which deals with the interpretation and application of a constitution, particularly that of a national government.

plural of daughter-in-law

(Britain, law) A former (1824–1981) law by which police officers were permitted to arrest anyone under suspicion of having committed a crime

Someone's nephew's wife. / Someone's sibling's daughter-in-law. / Someone's spouse's sibling's daughter-in-law. / Someone's husband's niece. (Usually called a niece.)

Rule by military authorities, especially when imposed on a civilian population in time of war or other crisis, or in an occupied territory.

(law) The doctrine that no individual is above the law and that everyone must answer to it. / (law) The maxim whereby governmental decisions are made by applying known legal principles.

The Latin language as used in law and legal documents, being a mixture of Latin with Old French and Latinized English words. / (humorous, obsolete) Barbarous Latin.

Within the letter of the law but not the spirit of the law.

(computing) An empirical observation that the density of transistors on a chip doubles every two years.