law

See:
  • (one's) word is law
  • a law unto
  • a law unto (oneself)
  • a law unto himself, herself, etc.
  • a law unto yourself
  • above suspicion
  • above the law
  • against the law
  • be a law unto (oneself)
  • be a law unto yourself
  • bend the law
  • break a law
  • break a/the law
  • common law
  • get on the wrong side of the law
  • go to law
  • Godwin's law
  • hard cases make bad laws
  • have the law on (someone)
  • have the law on somebody
  • ignorance of the law excuses no one
  • ignorance of the law is no excuse
  • ignorance of the law is no excuse for breaking it
  • in the eyes of the law
  • John Law
  • Johnny Law
  • law and order
  • law of averages
  • law of the jungle
  • law unto
  • law unto oneself
  • lay down the law
  • lay down the law, to
  • lemon law
  • letter of the law
  • long arm of the law
  • long arm of the law, the
  • Murphy's law
  • Necessity knows no law
  • on the wrong side of the law
  • one law for the rich and another (law) for the poor
  • one law for the rich and another for the poor
  • Parkinson's law
  • possession is nine parts of the law
  • possession is nine points of the law
  • possession is nine points/tenths/parts of the law
  • possession is nine-tenths of the law
  • self-preservation is the first law of nature
  • sign (something) into law
  • sign on
  • Sod's law
  • someone's word is law
  • stand your ground law
  • take (someone or something) to law
  • take into one's own hands, to
  • take someone to law
  • take the law into (one's) own hands
  • take the law into one's hands
  • take the law into own hands
  • take the law into your own hands
  • the law
  • the law is an ass
  • the law of averages
  • the law of diminishing returns
  • the law of the jungle
  • the law of the Medes and Persians
  • the letter of the law
  • the long arm of the law
  • the spirit of the law
  • there ought to be a law
  • There ought to be a law!
  • there oughta be a law
  • there's no law against (something)
  • there's no law against it
  • there's no law against something
  • three-strike(s) law
  • unwritten law
  • vote (something) into law
  • vote into law
  • your, his, etc. word is law
References in classic literature
But it may be again asked, Who is to judge of the NECESSITY and PROPRIETY of the laws to be passed for executing the powers of the Union?
Federalist Papers Authored by Alexander Hamilton
The Congress shall assemble at least once in every Year, and such Meeting shall be on the first Monday in December, unless they shall by law appoint a different Day.
The Senators and Representatives shall receive a Compensation for their Services, to be ascertained by Law, and paid out of the Treasury of the United States.
Constitution of The United States
Laws embodied in differential equations may possibly be exact, but cannot be known to be so.
The laws of traditional physics, in the form in which they deal with movements of matter or electricity, have an apparent simplicity which somewhat conceals the empirical character of what they assert.
The Analysis of Mind
Judges ought above all to remember the conclusion of the Roman Twelve Tables; Salus populi suprema lex; and to know that laws, except they be in order to that end, are but things captious, and oracles not well inspired.
The Essays
Because of his age and his cunning, because of his gripe and his paw, In all that the Law leaveth open, the word of the Head Wolf is Law.
Now these are the Laws of the Jungle, and many and mighty are they; But the head and the hoof of the Law and the haunch and the hump is--Obey!
Second Jungle Book
An alien, therefore, legally incapacitated for certain rights in the latter, may, by previous residence only in the former, elude his incapacity; and thus the law of one State be preposterously rendered paramount to the law of another, within the jurisdiction of the other.
I shall confine myself to a cursory review of the remaining powers comprehended under this third description, to wit: to regulate commerce among the several States and the Indian tribes; to coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin; to provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the current coin and secureties of the United States; to fix the standard of weights and measures; to establish a uniform rule of naturalization, and uniform laws of bankruptcy, to prescribe the manner in which the public acts, records, and judicial proceedings of each State shall be proved, and the effect they shall have in other States; and to establish post offices and post roads.
Federalist Papers Authored by James Madison
Again, in any law upon this subject, ought not all the safeguards of liberty known in civilized and humane jurisprudence to be introduced, so that a free man be not, in any case, surrendered as a slave?
I hold that, in contemplation of universal law and of the Constitution, the Union of these States is perpetual.
Abraham Lincolns First Inaugural Address
It was not however found easy to embody the readily admitted principle that property should make law for property, and persons for persons; since persons and property mixed themselves in every transaction.
The law may do what it will with the owner of property; its just power will still attach to the cent.
Essays Second Series
Only by taking infinitesimally small units for observation (the differential of history, that is, the individual tendencies of men) and attaining to the art of integrating them (that is, finding the sum of these infinitesimals) can we hope to arrive at the laws of history.
War and Peace