Noun:
1: law legal document setting forth rules governing a particular kind of activity; "there is a law against kidnapping"
2: jurisprudence, law the collection of rules imposed by authority; "civilization presupposes respect for the law"; "the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order"
3: law of nature, law a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature; "the laws of thermodynamics"
4: natural law, law a rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society
5: practice of law, law 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"
6: police force, constabulary, law, police the force of policemen and officers; "the law came looking for him"
7: legal philosophy, law, jurisprudence the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do