A set of principles of right and wrong behaviour guiding, or representative of, a specific culture, society, group, or individual.
The morality of an action.
Moral, relating to morals.
Any rule that must or should be obeyed, concerning behaviours and their consequences. (Compare mores.)
Any statement of the relation of acts and conditions to their consequences.
A person or group that act(s) with authority to uphold such rules and order (for example, one or more police officers).
The body of such rules that pertain to a particular topic.
A mode of operation of the flight controls of a fly-by-wire aircraft.
The body of binding rules and regulations, customs, and standards established in a community by its legislative and judicial authorities.
The profession that deals with such rules (as lawyers, judges, police officers, etc).
Common law, as contrasted with equity.
Jurisprudence, the field of knowledge which encompasses these rules.
One of two metaphysical forces ruling the world in some fantasy settings, also called order, and opposed to chaos.
Litigation; legal action (as a means of maintaining or restoring order, redressing wrongs, etc).
A rule or principle regarding the construction of language or art.
An allowance of distance or time (a head start) given to a weaker (human or animal) competitor in a race, to make the race more fair.
A statement (in physics, etc) of an (observed, established) order or sequence or relationship of phenomena which is invariable under certain conditions. (Compare theory.)
A statement (of relation) that is true under specified conditions; a mathematical or logical rule.
A binding regulation or custom established in a community in this way.
The control and order brought about by the observance of such rules.
One of the official rules of cricket as codified by the its (former) governing body, the MCC.
An oath sworn before a court, especially disclaiming a debt. (Chiefly in the phrases "wager of law", "wage one's law", "perform one's law", "lose one's law".)
A sound law; a regular change in the pronunciation of a language.
To prosecute or sue (someone), to litigate.
To rule over (with a certain effect) by law; to govern.
To enforce the law.
To subject to legal restrictions.