(law) Law explicitly made, as compared to natural law, prescribed by express enactment or institution.

plural of law school

Law developed by judges through court decisions and opinions, as distinct from statute and other legislation.

(law) Legally; according to the law.

(philosophy) An ethical theory that posits the existence of a law whose content is set by nature and that therefore has validity everywhere.

Synonym of law binding

(software engineering) The design principle that software should be conservative as to its own behaviour (i.e. strictly compliant with specifications) but liberal in the behaviour it tolerates from other systems.

(phonology) A Proto-Indo-European phonological rule that governs the word-final sequences of a vowel, followed firstly by a semivowel or a laryngeal and then by a nasal. Such sequences are simplified so that laryngeals and semivowels are dropped, with compensatory lengthening of a preceding vowel.

A law stating that objects that generate retinal images of the same size will look different in physical size (linear size) if they appear to be located at different distances.

(computing) The rule of thumb that there should be at least one CPU for each user of a system.