• Noun: legal document setting forth rules governing a particular kind of activity; example: "there is a law against kidnapping"
• Noun: the collection of rules imposed by authority; examples: "civilization presupposes respect for the law", "the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order"
• Noun: a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature; example: "the laws of thermodynamics"
• Noun: a rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society
• Noun: the learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system; example: "he studied law at Yale"
• Noun: the force of policemen and officers; example: "the law came looking for him"
• Noun: the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do
No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time.
When I began we did not really have a lot of First Amendment law. It is really surprising to think of it this way, but a lot of the law - most of the law that relates to the First Amendment freedom of the press in America - is really within living memory.
There is an orderliness in the universe, there is an unalterable law governing everything and every being that exists or lives. It is no blind law; for no blind law can govern the conduct of living beings.
I was training to be a lawyer... I was president of the law society at Glasgow University, and my bass guitarist was my secretary of my law society; the lead guitarist and writer worked at the law firm that I worked.
I'm not called Jude Law, I have three names; I'm called 'Hunk Jude Law' or 'Heartthrob Jude Law'. In England anyway, that's my full name. That's the cheap language that's thrown around, that sums you up in one little bracket. It doesn't look at your life. But if one looks beyond, there is actually a little bit more.
A quality is something capable of being completely embodied. A law never can be embodied in its character as a law except by determining a habit. A quality is how something may or might have been. A law is how an endless future must continue to be.
I give off rather mixed messages about the law. On the one hand, I can honestly say I don't miss working in a law office. On the other hand I do enjoy watching the law and while the profession may have its problems, I have sold zillions of books out of magnifying them.
I wouldn't approach the issue of judging in the way the president does. Judges can't rely on what's in their heart. They don't determine the law. Congress makes the law. The job of a judge is to apply the law.