law

1. The body of binding rules and regulations, customs, and standards established in a community by its legislative and judicial authorities. (countable, uncountable) · The courts interpret the law but should not make it.· In theory, entrapment is against the law.
2. The body of such rules that pertain to a particular topic. (countable, uncountable) · property law· commercial hunting and fishing law
3. Common law, as contrasted with equity. (countable, uncountable)
4. A binding regulation or custom established in a community in this way. (countable, uncountable) · There is a law against importing wallabies.· A new law forbids driving on that road.
5. Any rule that must or should be obeyed, concerning behaviours and their consequences. (Compare mores.) (countable, uncountable) · "Do unto others as you wish them to do unto you" is a good law to follow.· the law of self-preservation
6. A rule or principle regarding the construction of language or art. (countable, uncountable) · the laws of playwriting and poetry
7. A statement (in physics, etc) of an (observed, established) order or sequence or relationship of phenomena which is invariable under certain conditions. (Compare theory.) (countable, uncountable) · the laws of thermodynamics· Newton's third law of motion states that to every action there is always an equal and opposite reaction.
8. A statement (of relation) that is true under specified conditions; a mathematical or logical rule. (countable, uncountable) · Mathematical laws can be proved purely through mathematics, without scientific experimentation.

Plural laws