n.
statute, regulation
1) to administer, apply, enforce a ~
2) to adopt, enact, pass; draft; promulgate a ~
3) to obey, observe a ~
4) to interpret a ~ (courts interpret ~s)
5) to annul, repeal, revoke a ~; to declare a ~ unconstitutional ( US )
6) to break, flout, violate a ~
7) to challenge, test; cite; strike down a ~ (in the courts)
8) a fair, just; stringent; unfair ~
9) a blue ( US ); dietary; ex post facto; lemon ( US ); shield ( US ); sunset ( US ); sunshine ( US ); sus ( GB ); unwritten; zoning ~; the licensing ~s ( GB )
10) a ~ against (there is no ~ against fishing)
11) a ~ that + clause (there is a ~ that all income must be reported)
body of statutes, regulations
12) to administer, apply, enforce the ~
13) to obey the ~
14) to interpret the ~ (courts interpret the ~)
15) to break; flout the ~
16) administrative; antitrust; business; commercial; canon; case; civil; common; constitutional; copyright; corporate; criminal; environmental; family, marriage; feudal; immigration; international; Islamic; labor; lynch; maritime; military; Mosaic; natural; occupation; parliamentary; patent; private; public; Roman; statutory; substantive ~
17) the supreme ~ (of the land)
18) according to the ~
19) against the ~ (it is against the ~ to smoke in an elevator)
jurisprudence
~yer's profession
20) to practice ~
21) to study ~
principle
22) Mendel's; Newton's; periodic ~
23) the ~ of diminishing returns; the ~ of gravity; the ~ of motion; the ~ of supply and demand; (also fig .) the ~ of the jungle
misc.
24) to take the ~ into one's own hands; to lay down the ~; in the eyes of the ~; an attorney at ~ ( AE ); everyone is equal under the ~; the letter of the ~; the spirit of the ~; a higher ('divine') ~