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• 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"
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• S: (n) law (legal document setting forth rules governing a particular kind of activity) "there is a law against kidnapping"
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• S: (n) anti-drug law (a law forbidding the sale or use of narcotic drugs)
• S: (n) anti-racketeering law, Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, RICO Act, RICO (law intended to eradicate organized crime by establishing strong sanctions and forfeiture provisions)
• S: (n) antitrust legislation, antitrust law (law intended to promote free competition in the market place by outlawing monopolies)
• S: (n) statute of limitations (a statute prescribing the time period during which legal action can be taken)
• S: (n) fundamental law, organic law, constitution (law determining the fundamental political principles of a government)
• S: (n) public law (a law affecting the public at large)
• S: (n) blue law (a statute regulating work on Sundays)
• S: (n) blue sky law (a state law regulating the sale of securities in an attempt to control the sale of securities in fraudulent enterprises)
• S: (n) gag law (any law that limits freedom of the press)
• S: (n) homestead law (a law conferring privileges on owners of homesteads)
• S: (n) poor law (a law providing support for the poor)
• S: (n) Riot Act (a former English law requiring mobs to disperse after a magistrate reads the law to them)
• S: (n) prohibition (a law forbidding the sale of alcoholic beverages) "in 1920 the 18th amendment to the Constitution established prohibition in the US"
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• S: (n) law, natural law (a rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society)
• S: (n) law, law of nature (a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature) "the laws of thermodynamics"
• S: (n) jurisprudence, law, legal philosophy (the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do)
• S: (n) law, practice of law (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"
• S: (n) police, police force, constabulary, law (the force of policemen and officers) "the law came looking for him"