A person or group that act(s) with authority to uphold such rules and order (for example, one or more police officers).
Any statement of the relation of acts and conditions to their consequences.
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.
Any rule that must or should be obeyed, concerning behaviours and their consequences. (Compare mores.)
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.
People who try to enforce norms or standards as if granted authority similar to the police.
The staff of such a department or agency, particularly its officers; (regional, chiefly US, Caribbean, Jamaica, Scotland, countable) an individual police officer.
Any of the formally enacted law enforcement agencies at various levels of government.
A branch of the Home Office responsible for general law enforcement within a specific territory.
A department of local (usually municipal) government responsible for general law enforcement.
A public agency charged with enforcing laws and maintaining public order, usually being granted special privileges to do so, particularly
Cleanup of a military facility, as a formal duty.
To clean up an area.
To enforce norms or standards upon.
To enforce the law and keep order among (a group).