Some articles on law, laws:
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 ...
... 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 ...
Roman Law - Roman Legal Development - Pre-classical Period
... period between about 201 to 27 BC, we can see the development of more flexible laws to match the needs of the time ... 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, supplement or ... The adaptation of law to new needs was given over to juridical practice, to magistrates, and especially to the praetors ...
... period between about 201 to 27 BC, we can see the development of more flexible laws to match the needs of the time ... 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, supplement or ... 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
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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 ...
... 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 ...
Roman Law - Roman Legal Development
... 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 strict ... of our city, 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 ...
... 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 strict ... of our city, 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 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 force of policemen and officers.
Example: "The law came looking for him"
Synonyms: police, police force, constabulary
- (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): 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 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
Famous quotes containing the word law:
“Mr. Brownlow: The law supposes that your wife acts under your direction.
Bumble: If that’s what the law supposes, sir, then the law’s an ass. And if that’s the eye of the law, sir, then the law’s a bachelor.”
—Vernon Harris (c. 1910)
“It is the way unseen, the certain route,
Where ever bound, yet thou art ever free;
The path of Him, whose perfect law of love
Bids spheres and atoms in just order move.”
—Jones Very (1831–1880)
“The only law was that enforced by the Creek Lighthorsemen and the U.S. deputy marshals who paid rare and brief visits; or the “two volumes of common law” that every man carried strapped to his thighs.”
—State of Oklahoma, U.S. relief program (1935-1943)