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Meaning:

Noun:

  • 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".
  • A one-sided contract.
  • A particular such rule.
  • A well-established, observed physical characteristic or behavior of nature.
  • more generally A written or understood rule that concerns behaviours and the appropriate consequences thereof. Laws are usually associated with mores.
  • cricket One of the official rules of cricket as codified by the MCC.
  • mathematics A statement that is true under specified conditions.
  • uncountable The police.
  • uncountable The body of rules and standards issued by a government, or to be applied by courts and similar authorities.

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Proper noun:

  • A diminutive of Lawrence.
  • Christianity a generic term which can refer to the Divine commandments (primarily the Decalogue), the Old Testament in general or, most specifically, the Torah.
  • Judaism the Torah
  • Scottish a conical hill
  • patronymic|from=given names
  • topographic|from=Old English|dot=, perhaps originally meaning someone who lives near a burial mound.

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