law (n.)
- act
- appointment
- assize
- axiom
- ban
- bill
- bluecoat
- bobby
- brevet
- bull
- bylaw
- canon
- code
- command
- commandment
- contraband
- convention
- cop
- copper
- criminology
- criterion
- declaration
- decree
- denial
- dick
- dictate
- dictation
- dictum
- edict
- embargo
- enactment
- exclusion
- exigency
- fiat
- flatfoot
- forbiddance
- forbidding
- form
- formality
- formula
- formulary
- fundamental
- gendarme
- guideline
- gumshoe
- imperative
- index
- inhibition
- injunction
- institute
- institution
- interdict
- interdiction
- jurisprudence
- jus
- legislation
- lex
- mandate
- maxim
- measure
- mitzvah
- moral
- necessity
- norm
- norma
- ordinance
- peeler
- pig
- postulate
- precept
- preclusion
- prescript
- prescription
- prevention
- principle
- proclamation
- prohibition
- pronouncement
- pronunciamento
- proposition
- proscription
- refusal
- regulation
- rejection
- repression
- rescript
- rubric
- rule
- ruling
- shamus
- standard
- statute
- sue
- suppression
- taboo
- tenet
- theorem
- truism
- truth
- ukase
- zoning
law (v.)
law (adj.)
Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.
To the law and to the testimony.
And do as adversaries do in law,—
Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.
1 Clo. Argal, he that is not guilty of his own death shortens not his own life.
2 Clo. But is this law?
1 Clo. Ay, marry, is 't; crowner's quest law.
The mere repetition of the Cantilena of lawyers cannot make it law, unless it can be traced to some competent authority; and if it be irreconcilable, to some clear legal principle.
1 Clo. Argal, he that is not guilty of his own death shortens not his own life.
2 Clo. But is this law?
1 Clo. Ay, marry, is 't; crowner's quest law.
Possession is eleven points in the law.
Where law ends, tyranny begins.
Love is the fulfilling of the law.
No man e'er felt the halter draw,
With good opinion of the law.
There is a higher law than the Constitution.
Ignorance of the law excuses no man; not that all men know the law, but because 't is an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to refute him.
And through the heat of conflict keeps the law
In calmness made, and sees what he foresaw.
The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science, that smiles in yer face while it picks yer pocket; and the glorious uncertainty of it is of mair use to the professors than the justice of it.
The law is good, if a man use it lawfully.
Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason. . . . The law, which is perfection of reason.
The law is open.
Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason. . . . The law, which is perfection of reason.
The law: It has honored us; may we honor it.
The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public.
The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept.
Mastering the lawless science of our law,—
That codeless myriad of precedent,
That wilderness of single instances.
Equity is a roguish thing. For Law we have a measure, know what to trust to; Equity is according to the conscience of him that is Chancellor, and as that is larger or narrower, so is Equity. 'T is all one as if they should make the standard for the measure we call a "foot" a Chancellor's foot; what an uncertain measure would this be! One Chancellor has a long foot, another a short foot, a third an indifferent foot. 'T is the same thing in the Chancellor's conscience.
One to destroy is murder by the law,
And gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe;
To murder thousands takes a specious name,
War's glorious art, and gives immortal fame.
Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.
Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law,
Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw;
Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight,
A little louder, but as empty quite;
Scarfs, garters, gold, amuse his riper stage,
And beads and prayer-books are the toys of age.
Pleased with this bauble still, as that before,
Till tired he sleeps, and life's poor play is o'er.
Necessity has no law.
Lysander said that the law spoke too softly to be heard in such a noise of war.
Let us consider the reason of the case. For nothing is law that is not reason.
I trust in Nature for the stable laws
Of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant
And Autumn garner to the end of time.
I trust in God,—the right shall be the right
And other than the wrong, while he endures.
I trust in my own soul, that can perceive
The outward and the inward,—Nature's good
And God's.
In her tongue is the law of kindness.
Progress is
The law of life: man is not Man as yet.
According to the law of the Medes and Persians.
Who to himself is law no law doth need,
Offends no law, and is a king indeed.
Old father antic the law.
One God, one law, one element,
And one far-off divine event
To which the whole creation moves.
One Universe made up of all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of Being, and one Law, the Reason, shared by all thinking creatures, and one Truth.
That possession was the strongest tenure of the law.
That very law which moulds a tear
And bids it trickle from its source,—
That law preserves the earth a sphere,
And guides the planets in their course.
Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason. . . . The law, which is perfection of reason.
Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.
Rigorous law is often rigorous injustice.
Of Law there can be no less acknowledged than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world. All things in heaven and earth do her homage,—the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power.
Seven hours to law, to soothing slumber seven,
Ten to the world allot, and all to heaven.
What constitutes a state?
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Men who their duties know,
But know their rights, and knowing, dare maintain.
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And sovereign law, that state's collected will,
O'er thrones and globes elate,
Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill.
The law is good, if a man use it lawfully.
The ultimate, angels' law,
Indulging every instinct of the soul
There where law, life, joy, impulse are one thing!
Between two hawks, which flies the higher pitch;
Between two dogs, which hath the deeper mouth;
Between two blades, which bears the better temper;
Between two horses, which doth bear him best;
Between two girls, which hath the merriest eye,—
I have perhaps some shallow spirit of judgment;
But in these nice sharp quillets of the law,
Good faith, I am no wiser than a daw.
It is common for those that are farthest from God, to boast themselves most of their being near to the Church.
Men of most renowned virtue have sometimes by transgressing most truly kept the law.
There is what I call the American idea. . . . This idea demands, as the proximate organization thereof, a democracy,—that is, a government of all the people, by all the people, for all the people; of course, a government of the principles of eternal justice, the unchanging law of God. For shortness' sake I will call it the idea of Freedom.
Equity is a roguish thing. For Law we have a measure, know what to trust to; Equity is according to the conscience of him that is Chancellor, and as that is larger or narrower, so is Equity. 'T is all one as if they should make the standard for the measure we call a "foot" a Chancellor's foot; what an uncertain measure would this be! One Chancellor has a long foot, another a short foot, a third an indifferent foot. 'T is the same thing in the Chancellor's conscience.
Hail wedded love, mysterious law, true source
Of human offspring.
In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt
But being season'd with a gracious voice
Obscures the show of evil?
That very law which moulds a tear
And bids it trickle from its source,—
That law preserves the earth a sphere,
And guides the planets in their course.
Who to himself is law no law doth need,
Offends no law, and is a king indeed.
Still you keep o' the windy side of the law.
The world is not thy friend nor the world's law.
There is a written and an unwritten law. The one by which we regulate our constitutions in our cities is the written law; that which arises from custom is the unwritten law.
