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10. Trial by the laws of the land; judicial remedy; litigation; as, to go law.
When every case in law is right. Shak.
He found law dear and left it cheap. Brougham. 11. An oath, as in the presence of a court. [Obs.] See Wager of law, under Wager.
Avogadro's law (Chem.), a fundamental conception, according to which, under similar conditions of
temperature and pressure, all gases and vapors contain in the same volume the same number of ultimate
molecules; — so named after Avogadro, an Italian scientist. Sometimes called Ampère's law. — Bode's
law (Astron.), an approximative empirical expression of the distances of the planets from the sun, as
follows: —
Mer. Ven. Earth. Mars. Aste. Jup. Sat. Uran. Nep. 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 0 3 6 12 24 48 96 192 384 — —
— — — — — —- —- 4 7 10 16 28 52 100 196 388 5.9 7.3 10 15.2 27.4 52 95.4 192 300|
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where each distance (line third) is the sum of 4 and a multiple of 3 by the series 0, 1, 2, 4, 8, etc., the
true distances being given in the lower line. — Boyle's law (Physics), an expression of the fact, that
when an elastic fluid is subjected to compression, and kept at a constant temperature, the product of the
pressure and volume is a constant quantity, i. e., the volume is inversely proportioned to the pressure; —
known also as Mariotte's law, and the law of Boyle and Mariotte. — Brehon laws. See under Brehon.
— Canon law, the body of ecclesiastical law adopted in the Christian Church, certain portions of which
(for example, the law of marriage as existing before the Council of Tent) were brought to America by
the English colonists as part of the common law of the land. Wharton. — Civil law, a term used
by writers to designate Roman law, with modifications thereof which have been made in the different
countries into which that law has been introduced. The civil law, instead of the common law, prevails in
the State of Louisiana. Wharton. — Commercial law. See Law merchant — Common law. See
under Common. — Criminal law, that branch of jurisprudence which relates to crimes. — Ecclesiastical
law. See under Ecclesiastical. — Grimm's law (Philol.), a statement (propounded by the German
philologist Jacob Grimm) of certain regular changes which the primitive Indo-European mute consonants,
so-called (most plainly seen in Sanskrit and, with some changes, in Greek and Latin), have undergone
in the Teutonic languages. Examples: Skr. bhatr, L. frater, E. brother, G. bruder; L. tres, E. three,
G. drei, Skr. go, E. cow, G. kuh; Skr. dha to put, Gr. ti-qe`-nai, E. do, OHG, tuon, G. thun. —
Kepler's laws (Astron.), three important laws or expressions of the order of the planetary motions,
discovered by John Kepler. They are these: (1) The orbit of a planet with respect to the sun is an ellipse,
the sun being in one of the foci. (2) The areas swept over by a vector drawn from the sun to a planet
are proportioned to the times of describing them. (3) The squares of the times of revolution of two planets
are in the ratio of the cubes of their mean distances. — Law binding, a plain style of leather binding,
used for law books; — called also law calf. — Law book, a book containing, or treating of, laws. —
Law calf. See Law binding — Law day. (a) Formerly, a day of holding court, esp. a court-leet.
(b) The day named in a mortgage for the payment of the money to secure which it was given. [U. S.] —
Law French, the dialect of Norman, which was used in judicial proceedings and law books in England
from the days of William the Conqueror to the thirty-sixth year of Edward III. — Law language, the
language used in legal writings and forms. — Law Latin. See under Latin. — Law lords, peers in
the British Parliament who have held high judicial office, or have been noted in the legal profession. —
Law merchant, or Commercial law, a system of rules by which trade and commerce are regulated; —
deduced from the custom of merchants, and regulated by judicial decisions, as also by enactments of
legislatures. — Law of Charles (Physics), the law that the volume of a given mass of gas increases
or decreases, by a definite fraction of its value for a given rise or fall of temperature; — sometimes less
correctly styled Gay Lussac's law, or Dalton's law. — Law of nations. See International law, under
International. — Law of nature. (a) A broad generalization expressive of the constant action, or effect,
of natural conditions; as, death is a law of nature; self-defense is a law of nature. See Law, 4. (b)
A term denoting the standard, or system, of morality deducible from a study of the nature and natural
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