law

toc =Law (Legal Systems)=

Definition
law –noun
 * 1. || the principles and regulations established in a community by some authority and applicable to its people, whether in the form of legislation or of custom and policies recognized and enforced by judicial decision. ||
 * 2. || any written or positive rule or collection of rules prescribed under the authority of the state or nation, as by the people in its constitution. Compare [|bylaw], [law|statute law]. ||
 * 3. || the controlling influence of such rules; the condition of society brought about by their observance: maintaining law and order. ||
 * 4. || a system or collection of such rules. ||
 * 5. || the department of knowledge concerned with these rules; jurisprudence: to study law. ||
 * 6. || the body of such rules concerned with a particular subject or derived from a particular source: commercial law. ||
 * 7. || an act of the supreme legislative body of a state or nation, as distinguished from the constitution. ||
 * 8. || the principles applied in the courts of common law, as distinguished from equity. ||
 * 9. || the profession that deals with law and legal procedure: to practice law. ||
 * 10. || legal action; litigation: to go to law. ||

(Citation)
law. (n.d.). //Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1)//. Retrieved November 20, 2007, from Dictionary.com website: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/law