Some articles on law, laws:
Organic - Law
... Organic law, a fundamental law Organic statute, literally "regulations for an organ", with "organ" meaning an organization or governmental body Organic Articles, a French law presented in 1802 ...
... Organic law, a fundamental law Organic statute, literally "regulations for an organ", with "organ" meaning an organization or governmental body Organic Articles, a French law presented in 1802 ...
Roman Law - Roman Legal Development - The Twelve Tables
... The first legal text is the Law of the Twelve Tables, dating from mid-5th century BC ... Terentilius Arsa, proposed that the law should be written, in order to prevent magistrates from applying the law arbitrarily ... to send a delegation to Athens, to copy the Laws of Solon they also dispatched delegations to other Greek cities for like reason ...
... The first legal text is the Law of the Twelve Tables, dating from mid-5th century BC ... Terentilius Arsa, proposed that the law should be written, in order to prevent magistrates from applying the law arbitrarily ... to send a delegation to Athens, to copy the Laws of Solon they also dispatched delegations to other Greek cities for like reason ...
Roman Law - Roman Legal Development - Pre-classical Period
... about 201 to 27 BC, we can see the development of more flexible laws to match the needs of the time ... which can be defined as "The law introduced by the magistrates who had the right to promulgate edicts in order to support, supplement or correct the existing law." With this new law the old ... The adaptation of law to new needs was given over to juridical practice, to magistrates, and especially to the praetors ...
... about 201 to 27 BC, we can see the development of more flexible laws to match the needs of the time ... which can be defined as "The law introduced by the magistrates who had the right to promulgate edicts in order to support, supplement or correct the existing law." With this new law the old ... The adaptation of law to new needs was given over to juridical practice, to magistrates, and especially to the praetors ...
Church Of England - Structure - Representative Bodies
... by the British Parliament before receiving the Royal Assent and becoming part of the law of England ... Canons require Royal Licence and Royal Assent, but form the law of the church, rather than the law of the land ...
... by the British Parliament before receiving the Royal Assent and becoming part of the law of England ... Canons require Royal Licence and Royal Assent, but form the law of the church, rather than the law of the land ...
Roman Law - Roman Legal Development
... Before the Twelve Tables (754–449 BC), private law comprised the Roman civil law (ius civile Quiritium) that applied only to Roman citizens, and was bonded to ... the people began their first activities without any fixed law, and without any fixed rights all things were ruled despotically, by kings" ... It is believed that Roman Law is rooted in the Etruscan religion, emphasising ritual ...
... Before the Twelve Tables (754–449 BC), private law comprised the Roman civil law (ius civile Quiritium) that applied only to Roman citizens, and was bonded to ... the people began their first activities without any fixed law, and without any fixed rights all things were ruled despotically, by kings" ... It is believed that Roman Law is rooted in the Etruscan religion, emphasising ritual ...
More definitions of "law":
- (noun): The learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system.
Example: "He studied law at Yale"
Synonyms: practice of law
- (noun): The branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do.
Synonyms: jurisprudence, legal philosophy
- (noun): The collection of rules imposed by authority.
Example: "Civilization presupposes respect for the law"
Synonyms: jurisprudence
- (noun): Legal document setting forth rules governing a particular kind of activity.
Example: "There is a law against kidnapping"
- (noun): The force of policemen and officers.
Example: "The law came looking for him"
Synonyms: police, police force, constabulary
- (noun): A generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature.
Synonyms: law of nature
Famous quotes containing the word law:
“The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us; whoever possesses but one of these terms, has but a fragment of the law of the moral world.”
—Edgar Quinet (1803–1875)
“Villain, thou know’st nor law of God nor man;
No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“The due process of law as we use it, I believe, rests squarely on the liberal idea of conflict and resolution.”
—June L. Trapp (b. 1930)