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(n) legal document setting forth rules governing a particular kind of activity; "there is a law against kidnapping"
(n) the collection of rules imposed by authority; "civilization presupposes respect for the law"; "the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order"
(n) a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature; "the laws of thermodynamics"
(n) a rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society
(n) the learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system; "he studied law at Yale"
(n) the force of policemen and officers; "the law came looking for him"
(n) the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do

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