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1. The first of three divisions of the Hebrew Scriptures comprising the first five books of the Hebrew Bible considered as a unit
   - Torah, Pentateuch

1. The collection of rules imposed by authority
   "civilization presupposes respect for the law"
   - jurisprudence
    
2. Legal document setting forth rules governing a particular kind of activity
   "there is a law against kidnapping"
    
3. A rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society
   - natural law
    
4. A generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature
   "the laws of thermodynamics"; "the laws of nature of thermodynamics"
   - law of nature
    
5. The branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do
   - jurisprudence, legal philosophy
    
6. The learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system
   "he studied law at Yale"; "he studied practice of law at Yale"
   - practice of law
    
7. The force of policemen and officers
   "the law came looking for him"
   - police, police force, constabulary

Sounds like: lores

See also: juridic, lawyer, legal, medicolegal

Type of: accumulation, aggregation, assemblage, collection, concept, conception, construct, force, instrument, law enforcement agency, learned profession, legal document, legal instrument, official document, personnel, philosophy, religious text, religious writing, sacred text, sacred writing

Part of: Hebrew Scripture, Old Testament, Tanach, Tanakh, theory

Encyclopedia: Laws Laws, California