Antonyms for Law
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1. law

   Law, in its ideal, is the statement of a principle of right in mandatory form, by competent authority, with adequate penalty for disobedience; in common use, the term is applied to any legislative act, however imperfect or unjust. Command and commandment are personal and particular; as, the commands of a parent; the ten commandments. An edict is the act of an absolute sovereign or other authority; we speak of the edict of an emperor, the decree of a court. A mandate is specific, for an occasion or a purpose; a superior court issues its mandate to an inferior court to send up its records. Statute is the recognized legal term for a specific law; enactment is the more vague and general expression. We speak of algebraic or chemical formulas, municipal ordinances, military orders, army regulations, ecclesiastical canons, the rules of a business house. Law is often used, also, for a recognized principle, whose violation is attended with injury or loss that acts like a penalty; as, the laws of business; the laws of nature. In more strictly scientific use, a natural law is simply a recognized system of sequences or relations; as, Kepler's laws of planetary distances. A code is a system of laws; jurisprudence is the science of law, or a system of laws scientifically considered, classed, and interpreted; legislation, primarily the act of legislating, denotes also the body of statutes enacted by a legislative body. An economy (Greek oikonomia, primarily the management of a house) is any comprehensive system of administration; as, domestic economy; but the word is extended to the administration or government of a state or people, signifying a body of laws and regulations, with the entire system, political or religious, especially the latter, of which they form a part; as, the code of Draco, Roman jurisprudence, British legislation, the Mosaic economy. Law is also used as a collective noun for a system of laws or recognized rules or regulations, including not only all special laws, but the principles on which they are based. The Mosaic economy is known also as the Mosaic law, and we speak of the English common law, or the law of nations. Polity (Greek politeia, from polis, a city) signifies the form, constitution, or method of government of a nation, state, church, or other institution; in usage it differs from economy as applying rather to the system, while economy applies especially to method, or to the system as administered; an economy might be termed a polity considered with especial reference to its practical administration, hence commonly with special reference to details or particulars, while polity has more reference to broad principles.

   Synonyms:
   canon, code, command, commandment, decree, economy, edict, enactment, formula, jurisprudence, legislation, mandate, order, ordinance, polity, principle, regulation, rule, statute

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1. law

   Antonyms:
   misrule, disorder, anarchy, rebellion, insubordination, hazard, chance, irregularity, caprice, casualty, accident

   Synonyms:
   rule, edict, regulation, decree, command, order, statute, enactment, mode, method, sequence, principle, code, legislation, adjudication, jurisdiction, jurisprudence

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1. • Collection
   • Concept
   • Force
   • Law
   • Law Enforcement Agency
   • Legal Document
   • Philosophy

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:1.5 / 2 votes

1. law, jurisprudencenoun

   the collection of rules imposed by authority

   "civilization presupposes respect for the law"; "the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order"

   Synonyms:
   natural law, police, constabulary, jurisprudence, law of nature, practice of law, legal philosophy, police force, law

2. lawnoun

   legal document setting forth rules governing a particular kind of activity

   "there is a law against kidnapping"

   Synonyms:
   natural law, police, constabulary, jurisprudence, law of nature, practice of law, legal philosophy, police force

3. law, natural lawnoun

   a rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society

   Synonyms:
   natural law, police, constabulary, jurisprudence, law of nature, practice of law, legal philosophy, police force, law

4. law, law of naturenoun

   a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature

   "the laws of thermodynamics"

   Synonyms:
   natural law, police, constabulary, jurisprudence, law of nature, practice of law, legal philosophy, police force, law

5. jurisprudence, law, legal philosophynoun

   the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do

   Synonyms:
   natural law, police force, police, constabulary, jurisprudence, law of nature, practice of law, legal philosophy, law

6. law, practice of lawnoun

   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"

   Synonyms:
   natural law, police, constabulary, jurisprudence, law of nature, practice of law, legal philosophy, police force, law

7. police, police force, constabulary, lawnoun

   the force of policemen and officers

   "the law came looking for him"

   Synonyms:
   legal philosophy, natural law, practice of law, police, constabulary, law of nature, jurisprudence, police force, law

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1. lawnoun

   Synonyms:
   statute, ordinance, edict, enactment, decree, canon, usage

   Associated words:
   jurisprudence, nomology, nomography, nomocracy, antinomy, dysnomy, neonomian, code, codex, codify, codification, digest, forensic, legislate, legislation, legislative, enact, ordain, repeal, veto, jurat, juratory, juridic, juridical, jurist, juris consult, publicist, jurisprudent, juristic, pandect, moratory, judicial, causidical, nomothetic, nomistic

How to use Law in a sentence?

1. Ren Jin:

   It shows that the year 2015 is the key year for comprehensively deepening reforms, as well as the beginning year for comprehensively exercising rule of law.

2. Mark Bankston:

   I am under request from various federal agencies and law enforcement to provide( the records), absent a ruling from you saying you can not do that... I intend to do so immediately following this hearing.

3. Abdul El-Sayed:

   The immediate question that comes to mind is, ‘This is a really crazy drug, and how can we make sure we’re safe from people who use this drug?’ but the question we should be asking as a society is, ‘Why are people turning to drugs like this, and why is there this increasing need for stronger drugs?’ So we should be looking at this not as a law enforcement problem but as a public health problem.

4. Marvin Perkins:

   It's critical that we have healthy relationships with law enforcement and our community, protesting has its place, but after the protests, then what ? We got ta talk solutions and being able to sit down and converse with people who you may not agree with... If you don't have that, we'll never get to a place to where we can actually resolve the situations that we're facing as a community.

5. Erin Buzuvis:

   The Idaho situation is different because it is a state law that is being challenged under the equal protection doctrine, that could set some sort of national standard about what kind of policies states are allowed to have or prohibited to have. But that doesn’t necessarily mean that the case would say, ‘Here is the one policy that all states must have.’.

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