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/lɔː/ · noun
(usually with "the") The body of binding rules and regulations, customs, and standards established in a community by its legislative and judicial authorities..
The courts interpret the law but should not make it.
In theory, entrapment is against the law.
Not unnaturally, "Auntie" took this communication in bad part.[…]Next day she[…]tried to recover her ward by the hair of the head. Then, thwarted, the wretched creature went to the police for help; she was versed in the law, and perhaps had spared no pains to keep on good terms with the local constabulary.
Here one comes upon an all-important English trait: the respect for constitutionalism and legality, the belief in "the law" as something above the State and above the individual, something which is cruel and stupid, of course, but at any rate incorruptible. It is not that anyone imagines the law to be just. Everyone knows that there is one law for the rich and another for the poor. But no one accepts the implications of this, everyone takes it for granted that the law, such as it is, will be respected, and feels a sense of outrage when it is not.
There is a law against importing wallabies.
A new law forbids driving on that road.
The court ruled that the executive order was not law and nullified it.
As a political system democracy seems to me extraordinarily foolish,[…]. My servant is, so far as I am concerned, welcome to as many votes as he can get.[…]I do not suppose that it matters much in reality whether laws are made by dukes or cornerboys, but I like, as far as possible, to associate with gentlemen in private life.
Use law when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Law means (usually with "the") The body of binding rules and regulations, customs, and standards established in a community by its legislative and judicial authorities..
Common synonyms include act, canon, code, convention.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
The courts interpret the law but should not make it.
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