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Noun
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) enabling legislation (legislation that gives appropriate officials the authority to implement or enforce the law)
S: (n) occupational safety and health act, federal job safety law (a law passed by the United States Congress that created the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to prevent employees from being injured or contracting diseases in the course of their employment)
S: (n) common law, case law, precedent (a system of jurisprudence based on judicial precedents rather than statutory laws) "common law originated in the unwritten laws of England and was later applied in the United States"
S: (n) maritime law, marine law, admiralty law (the branch of international law that deals with territorial and international waters or with shipping or with ocean fishery etc.)
S: (n) law of the land (a phrase used in the Magna Carta to refer to the then established law of the kingdom (as distinct from Roman or civil law); today it refers to fundamental principles of justice commensurate with due process) "the United States Constitution declares itself to be `the supreme law of the land'"
S: (n) martial law (the body of law imposed by the military over civilian affairs (usually in time of war or civil crisis); overrides civil law)
S: (n) military law (the body of laws and rules of conduct administered by military courts for the discipline, trial, and punishment of military personnel)
S: (n) Mosaic law, Law of Moses (the laws (beginning with the Ten Commandments) that God gave to the Israelites through Moses; it includes many rules of religious observance given in the first five books of the Old Testament (in Judaism these books are called the Torah))
S: (n) shariah, shariah law, sharia, sharia law, Islamic law (the code of law derived from the Koran and from the teachings and example of Mohammed) "sharia is only applicable to Muslims"; "under Islamic law there is no separation of church and state"
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"