Lucid Lexicon

law

Old English lagu, combining form lah- "ordinance, rule prescribed by authority, regulation; district governed by the same laws"

Rare in Old English. Akin to Old English licgan "to lie" (MW)
law banished the previously usual ae

law noun

system of dominion and rule
- See also judge

a rule of conduct or action prescribed or formally recognized as binding or enforced by a controlling authority
a body of laws
the control or authority of the law; one or more agents or agencies involved in enforcing laws; the application of a law or laws as distinct from considerations of fact;
the whole body of laws and doctrines relating to one subject
the legal profession
the nature, use, and effects of laws and legal systems as an area of knowledge or society

law verb

litigate
- Definition of litigate:
  to carry on a legal contest by judicial process

"They had neither rules nor laws nor a name for themselves; just an implicit way of life based on awareness of aretē or what it means to be human."

"Originals"
(Speed Well Dialogues)
by Sabina Nore

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⚜	classic definition
☣	artificium definition; usually words which have undergone a warped evolution, or a complete perversion of the original sense

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