Law-ways
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Law-ways is a noun meaning A community's specific set of laws and legal practices.
Meaning
A community's specific set of laws and legal practices.
Example Sentences
Indigenous Peoples' law-ways are similar throughout Australia and the world. We share a belief in the creation, a time in which the law itself was created.
We have aimed at the development of a social science instrument for the recording and interpretation of law-ways among primitive peoples; the Cheyennes and their Way provide the subject material.
Communitarian justice generally employs local or indigenous law-ways and not state law; is bound up with attempts to create a new religious or utopian social order, advocates decentralization and the application of community norms instead of legal rules of procedure; and focuses on feelings and individual expression .
Word Forms
- law-way
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include law-way, bylaw, lawcode, community, lawscape, byrlaw.
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