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Synonyms for law

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

Synonyms for law

a principle governing affairs within or among political units

the formal product of a legislative or judicial body

a broad and basic rule or truth

to institute or subject to legal proceedings

The American Heritage® Roget's Thesaurus. Copyright © 2013, 2014 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Synonyms for law

the collection of rules imposed by authority

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a rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society

a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature

the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do

the learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system

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Summary: Mexico - Prominent Moroccan jurist, Nadia Bernoussi, was elected vice--president of the International Association of Constitutional Law (IACL), on Wednesday in Mexico, a delegation of Moroccan jurists said.
Summary: The 26th training session of the International Academy of Constitutional Law (AIDC) was launched on Friday in Tunis.
The Articles presented in this Issue address the intersection of state constitutional rights and the common law, (1) the need for a state-focused approach to understanding state constitutional law, (2) develop a working theory of state constitutions, (3) and discuss the strategic wisdom of the plaintiffs in the case challenging California's Proposition 8 (banning same-sex marriage) having brought a federal constitutional challenge.
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