Meaning

• Noun

  1. law (body of binding rules and regulations, customs and standards established in a community by its legislative and judicial authorities)
  2. law (discipline studying such a body; formal field of study of such at an institution; branch at such an institution dedicated to such study)
  3. law (binding regulation or custom established in a community in this way)
  4. right (legal, just or moral entitlement)
  5. (obsolete) right (legal, just or moral entitlement)
  6. law (natural rule that must be followed)
  7. (obsolete) lawsuit
  8. (obsolete) duty, obligation
  9. pretense (unsupported claim made or implied)
  10. (obsolete) correctness, fairness; rightness (state of being correct, fair, or right)

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