Definition of law

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Law (n.) An organic rule, as a constitution or charter, establishing and defining the conditions of the existence of a state or other organized community..

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Arson :: Arson (n.) The malicious burning of a dwelling house or outhouse of another man, which by the common law is felony; the malicious and voluntary firing of a building or ship..
Claw :: Claw (n.) To pull, tear, or scratch with, or as with, claws or nails..
Legality :: Legality (n.) The state or quality of being legal; conformity to law.
Templar :: Templar (n.) A student of law, so called from having apartments in the Temple at London, the original buildings having belonged to the Knights Templars. See Inner Temple, and Middle Temple, under Temple..
Whiteflaw :: Whiteflaw (n.) A whitlow.
Spiral :: Spiral (a.) A plane curve, not reentrant, described by a point, called the generatrix, moving along a straight line according to a mathematical law, while the line is revolving about a fixed point called the pole. Cf. Helix..
Justify :: "Justify (a.) To prove or show to be just; to vindicate; to maintain or defend as conformable to law, right, justice, propriety, or duty..
Claw :: Claw (n.) To rail at; to scold.
Heteronomy :: Heteronomy (n.) A term applied by Kant to those laws which are imposed on us from without, or the violence done to us by our passions, wants, or desires..
Trespass :: Trespass (v. i.) To commit any offense, or to do any act that injures or annoys another; to violate any rule of rectitude, to the injury of another; hence, in a moral sense, to transgress voluntarily any divine law or command; to violate any known rule of duty; to sin; -- often followed by against..
Preamble :: Preamble (n.) A introductory portion; an introduction or preface, as to a book, document, etc.; specifically, the introductory part of a statute, which states the reasons and intent of the law..
Partition :: Partition (v.) The servance of common or undivided interests, particularly in real estate. It may be effected by consent of parties, or by compulsion of law..
Ungula :: Ungula (n.) A hoof, claw, or talon..
Incontinent :: Incontinent (a.) Not continent; uncontrolled; not restraining the passions or appetites, particularly the sexual appetite; indulging unlawful lust; unchaste; lewd..
Rehabilitate :: Rehabilitate (v. t.) To invest or clothe again with some right, authority, or dignity; to restore to a former capacity; to reinstate; to qualify again; to restore, as a delinquent, to a former right, rank, or privilege lost or forfeited; -- a term of civil and canon law..
Attorney :: Attorney (n.) A legal agent qualified to act for suitors and defendants in legal proceedings; an attorney at law.
Mother-in-law :: Mother-in-law (n.) The mother of one's husband or wife.
Levitical :: Levitical (a.) Of or pertaining to, or designating, the law contained in the book of Leviticus..
Tyrant :: Tyrant (n.) Specifically, a monarch, or other ruler or master, who uses power to oppress his subjects; a person who exercises unlawful authority, or lawful authority in an unlawful manner; one who by taxation, injustice, or cruel punishment, or the demand of unreasonable services, imposes burdens and hardships on those under his control, which law and humanity do not authorize, or which the purposes of government do not require; a cruel master; an oppressor..
Niece :: Niece (n.) A daughter of one's brother or sister, or of one's brother-in-law or sister-in-law..
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