…the system of rules that a particular country or community recognizes as regulating the actions of its members and may enforce by the imposition of penalties…
…the system of rules that a particular country or community recognizes as regulating the actions of its members and may enforce by the imposition of penalties…
…the Pentateuch as distinct from the other parts of the Hebrew Bible (the Prophets and the Writings)…
…(1858–1923), Canadian-born British Conservative statesman, Prime Minister 1922-3; full name Andrew Bonar Law. He was leader of the Conservative Party 1911–21. He retired in 1921, but returned in 1922, following Lloyd George’s resignation, to become Prime Minister for six months…
…(b.1940), Scottish footballer. A striker, he made his international debut in 1958 and went on to win forty caps for Scotland. He had his greatest success with Manchester United…
…ecclesiastical law, especially (in the Roman Catholic Church) that laid down by papal pronouncements…
…the system of law concerned with private relations between members of a community rather than criminal, military, or religious affairs…
…an assistant to a judge, typically a recent law-school graduate, whose function is to do legal research, help write opinions, and provide general assistance…
…(in the UK) a member of the House of Lords qualified to perform its legal work…
…(in some systems of ethics) an absolute principle defining the criteria of right action (whether conceived as a divine ordinance or a truth of reason)…
…a law stating that electric current is proportional to voltage and inversely proportional to resistance…
…the part of Jewish religious law believed to have been passed down by oral tradition before being collected in the Mishnah…
…a law relating to the support of the poor. Originally the responsibility of the parish, the relief and employment of the poor passed over to the workhouses in 1834. In the early 20th century, the Poor Law was replaced by social security…
…a relationship between two quantities such that one is proportional to a fixed power of the other…
…the law code of the ancient Romans, which forms the basis of civil law in many countries today…
…a law excluding females from dynastic succession, especially as the alleged fundamental law of the French monarchy…
…a formula by which the distances of the first seven planets from the sun are roughly derived in terms of powers of two…
…a law stating that the pressure of a given mass of an ideal gas is inversely proportional to its volume at a constant temperature…
…the part of English law that is derived from custom and judicial precedent rather than statutes. Often contrasted with statutory law…
…the observation that certain Indo-European consonants (mainly stops) undergo regular changes in the Germanic languages that are not seen in non-Germanic languages such as Greek or Latin. Examples include p becoming f so that Latin pedem corresponds to English foot and German Fuss. The principle was set out by Jacob Grimm in his German grammar (2nd edition, 1822)…
…a law stating that the mass of a dissolved gas in a given volume of solvent at equilibrium is proportional to the partial pressure of the gas…
…a moral or religious principle that is believed to overrule secular constitutions and laws…
…a law stating that the strain in a solid is proportional to the applied stress within the elastic limit of that solid…
…a law stating that the heat produced by an electric current i flowing through a resistance R for a time t is proportional to i2Rt…
…(in the UK) an independent publicly funded advisory service on legal matters…
…(in England and Wales) the Attorney General or the Solicitor General, or (in Scotland) the Lord Advocate or the Solicitor General for Scotland…
…the professional body responsible for regulating solicitors in England and Wales, established in 1825…
…a law stating that the direction of an induced current is always such as to oppose the change in the circuit or the magnetic field that produces it…
…a law requiring authorities to notify communities of the whereabouts of convicted sex offenders. It was first enacted by New Jersey in 1995…
…a body of unchanging moral principles regarded as a basis for all human conduct…
…a branch of the law that deals with the relations between individuals or institutions, rather than relations between these and the government…
…a law that protects witnesses from revealing certain information, especially in court…
