Noun

• S: (n) legislation, statute law (law enacted by a legislative body)
• direct hyponym / full hyponym
• domain category
• S: (n) law, jurisprudence (the collection of rules imposed by authority) "civilization presupposes respect for the law"; "the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order"
• domain term category
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (n) civil law (the body of laws established by a state or nation for its own regulation)
• S: (n) law, jurisprudence (the collection of rules imposed by authority) "civilization presupposes respect for the law"; "the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order"
• S: (n) collection, aggregation, accumulation, assemblage (several things grouped together or considered as a whole)
• S: (n) group, grouping (any number of entities (members) considered as a unit)
• S: (n) abstraction, abstract entity (a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples)
• S: (n) entity (that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving))
• part holonym
• derivationally related form
• S: (n) legislation, legislating, lawmaking (the act of making or enacting laws)