Danish - English
Definition of lov in Danish English dictionary
- law
The police expect people to follow the law.
-Politiet forventer at folk overholder loven.
The old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind.
-Den gamle lov om øje for øje efterlader alle blinde.
- A well-established, observed physical characteristic or behavior of nature
Newton and Einstein understood the law of gravitation in very different ways.
- A category of English "common law" petitions that request monetary relief, as opposed to relief in forms other than a monetary judgment; compare to "equity"
- The law is a system of rules that a society or government develops in order to deal with crime, business agreements, and social relationships. You can also use the law to refer to the people who work in this system. Obscene and threatening phone calls are against the law They are seeking permission to begin criminal proceedings against him for breaking the law on financing political parties There must be changes in the law quickly to stop this sort of thing ever happening to anyone else The book analyses why women kill and how the law treats them
- A one-sided contract
- Collectively, the whole body of rules relating to one subject, or emanating from one source; including usually the writings pertaining to them, and judicial proceedings under them; as, divine law; English law; Roman law; the law of real property; insurance law
- All the official rules and codes that govern citizens' actions, including the Constitution, statutory laws enacted by the Legislature, case laws established by court decisions, and administrative law as set forth by executive branch agencies
- Laws are rules that everyone in a country has to abide by
- The combination of those rules and principles of conduct promulgated by legislative authority, derived from court decisions and established by local custom
- 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"
- The law of averages is the idea that something is sure to happen at some time, because of the number of times it generally happens or is expected to happen. On the law of averages we just can't go on losing
- One of the official rules of cricket as codified by the MCC
- Body of recognized rules of conduct and order established and enforced by government
- Any edict, decree, order, ordinance, statute, resolution, judicial, decision, usage, etc
- If you have to do something by law or if you are not allowed to do something by law, the law states that you have to do it or that you are not allowed to do it. By law all restaurants must display their prices outside
- an act or bill which has become part of the legal code through passage by Congress and approval by the President (or via Congressional override)
- Law is used to refer to a particular branch of the law, such as criminal law or company (Hukuk) He was a professor of criminal law at Harvard University law school Important questions of constitutional law were involved
- The Jewish or Mosaic code, and that part of Scripture where it is written, in distinction from the gospel; hence, also, the Old Testament
- Same as Lawe, v
- A statement that describes a natural phenomenon; a principle