Some articles on law, laws:
Roman Law - Roman Legal Development - Pre-classical Period
201 to 27 BC, we can see the development of more flexible laws to match the needs of the time ... ius civile a new juridical class is created the ius honorarium, which can be defined as "The law introduced by the magistrates who had the right to promulgate edicts in order to support ... The adaptation of law to new needs was given over to juridical practice, to magistrates, and especially to the praetors ...
201 to 27 BC, we can see the development of more flexible laws to match the needs of the time ... ius civile a new juridical class is created the ius honorarium, which can be defined as "The law introduced by the magistrates who had the right to promulgate edicts in order to support ... The adaptation of law to new needs was given over to juridical practice, to magistrates, and especially to the praetors ...
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 ...
... 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 ...
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 religion undeveloped, with attributes of ... 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 religion undeveloped, with attributes of ... 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 ...
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 ... plebeian social class convinced the patricians 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 ... plebeian social class convinced the patricians to send a delegation to Athens, to copy the Laws of Solon they also dispatched delegations to other Greek cities for like reason ...
Church Of England - Structure - Representative Bodies
... Parliament before receiving the Royal Assent and becoming part of the law of England ... require Royal Licence and Royal Assent, but form the law of the church, rather than the law of the land ...
... Parliament before receiving the Royal Assent and becoming part of the law of England ... require Royal Licence and Royal Assent, but form the law of the church, rather than the law of the land ...
More definitions of "law":
- (noun): The force of policemen and officers.
Example: "The law came looking for him"
Synonyms: police, police force, constabulary
- (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 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): A rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society.
Synonyms: natural law
- (noun): A generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature.
Synonyms: law of nature
- (noun): Legal document setting forth rules governing a particular kind of activity.
Example: "There is a law against kidnapping"
Famous quotes containing the word law:
“The so-called law of induction cannot possibly be a law of logic, since it is obviously a proposition with a sense.—Nor, therefore, can it be an a priori law.”
—Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951)
“For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.”
—Albert Camus (1913–1960)
“Most magazines have that look of being predestined to be left which one sees on the faces of the women whose troubles bring them to the Law Courts.”
—Rebecca West (1892–1983)