English word senses marked with topical category "Law"
Parent categories: Justice, Society
Subcategories: Canon law, Constitutional law, Corporate law, Criminal law, Freedom of speech, Inheritance law, Intellectual property, International law, Islamic law, Jewish law, Jurisprudence, Law enforcement, Law of obligations, Legal occupations, Patent law, Procedural law, Property law, Scots law, Standards of identity, Taxation
Total 8834 word senses
- A&S … B&E (93 senses)
- B. … C.Z. (70 senses)
- CA … Cir. (92 senses)
- Cl. … DBU (84 senses)
- DC … EDRO (76 senses)
- EEE … FRAND (86 senses)
- FSB … I rest my case (98 senses)
- IA … Juv. (86 senses)
- K … MRA (86 senses)
- MS … NBI (101 senses)
- NC … Org. (73 senses)
- P … Quistclose trust (91 senses)
- R … SARS (93 senses)
- SB … TIR (101 senses)
- TM … UKSC (56 senses)
- ULC … abduction (110 senses)
- abet … acquittal (75 senses)
- act … advowsonage (79 senses)
- ael … anatocism (104 senses)
- anaw … apostles (77 senses)
- app. … artificially sweetened (75 senses)
- as … avoision (89 senses)
- avow … before the fact (92 senses)
- beg … bluecoat (101 senses)
- blur … building permit (98 senses)
- bull … carveout (80 senses)
- case … character witness (70 senses)
- charge … clink (92 senses)
- clog … competent (99 senses)
- compl. … conjuror (62 senses)
- conman … cooling-off period (93 senses)
- coop … county jail (93 senses)
- court … criminology (83 senses)
- crimo … de son tort (87 senses)
- dead … deedable (79 senses)
- deeder … dies non (119 senses)
- diet … dittay (88 senses)
- div. … drunk driving (70 senses)
- dry … en ventre sa mere (72 senses)
- enact … examining magistrate (102 senses)
- excamb … federale (102 senses)
- fee … filcher (57 senses)
- file … forfeiture (96 senses)
- forge … gaffle (89 senses)
- gag … golden rule (77 senses)
- gonk … handcuffs (88 senses)
- hang … holding cell (95 senses)
- hole … imputed liability (106 senses)
- in … informed consent (92 senses)
- infra … intromit (91 senses)
- inure … juarez (59 senses)
- judge … kyohwaso (104 senses)
- l … lawyerling (61 senses)
- lay … licit (90 senses)
- lie … mafiya (95 senses)
- mag … merger (110 senses)
- merit … mixed nuts (64 senses)
- mob … my learned friend (81 senses)
- n. … nolo contendere (81 senses)
- nominal … novus actus interveniens (94 senses)
- now … orange notice (98 senses)
- ord … palming off (69 senses)
- panda … peine forte et dure (100 senses)
- pen … photospread (78 senses)
- phrog … political prisoner (121 senses)
- poll … pray in aid (53 senses)
- prayee … privity (110 senses)
- privy … psychological injury (100 senses)
- psyop … pyramid scheme (52 senses)
- qadi … reality (83 senses)
- realm … regulatory framework (95 senses)
- reh'g … resetter (94 senses)
- resi … riding interest (76 senses)
- rig … rustler (81 senses)
- sac … sequester (92 senses)
- ser. … sist (106 senses)
- sit … spiller (97 senses)
- spin … statutory rape (61 senses)
- stay … sublessor (79 senses)
- sublet … supervoting (106 senses)
- supp. … tango (89 senses)
- tap … tenant-right (67 senses)
- tend … tippee (104 senses)
- tit … trustor (101 senses)
- try … upsun (95 senses)
- urka … viatorial privilege (63 senses)
- vic … weak copyleft (88 senses)
- wend … ꝓchein (99 senses)
- Δ (Noun) Abbreviation of defendant.
- -ee (Suffix) Used to form words meaning a person who is the other party to a contract or other transaction involving a person described by the corresponding word ending in -or.
- -er (Suffix) Instance of (the verbal action); used to form nouns from verbs.
- 000 (Proper name) The telephone number for emergency services in Australia.
- 10-20-Life (Proper name) Florida Statute 775.087
- 1040 (Noun) The main form for US individual income tax filing.
- 1040-NR (Noun) A variant of the 1040 income tax return for non-resident tax payers.
- 105 (Proper name) The telephone number for law enforcement in Peru.
- 1099 (Noun) A form reporting one's nonemployment income from a given source for a year.
- 10th Cir. (Proper name) Abbreviation of United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.
- 110 (Proper name) The telephone number for law enforcement in China, Japan, Germany, Indonesia, Latvia, Bolivia, Guatamala, Andorra, Nauru, and the Ivory Coast and on Taiwan.
- 111 (Proper name) The telephone number for emergency services in New Zealand and Nauru.
- 112 (Proper name) The telephone number for emergency services on all GSM cell phones and in the EU, Russia, United Kingdom, Ireland, India, Indonesia, Turkey, Ukraine, Cameroon, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Mali, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sao Tome, the Seychelles, Uganda, East Timor, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Moldova, North Macedonia, Vatican City, New Caledonia, Vanuatu, and S…
- 112 (Proper name) The telephone number for law enforcement in South Korea, Norway, Colombia, Serbia, Lebanon, Syria, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania, Papua New Guinea, and Mauritius.
- 119 (Proper name) The telephone number for law enforcement in Jamaica, Mozambique, the Maldives, and Sri Lanka.
- 119 (Proper name) The telephone number for COVID-19 emergencies in the United Kingdom's Home Counties.
- 11th Cir. (Proper name) Abbreviation of United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.
- 12 (Noun) Collectively, police or law enforcement.
- 12 (Noun) Collectively, police or law enforcement.
See also: fuck 12; See also: fuck 12
- 1312 (Phrase) Synonym of ACAB (“all cops are bastards”).
- 14K (Proper name) A large triad organization based in Hong Kong.
- 187 (Noun) Police code for murder, in the State of California.
- 1986 Act tenancy (Noun) Synonym of full agricultural tenancy.
- 1A (Proper name) Abbreviation of First Amendment.
- 1st Cir. (Proper name) Abbreviation of United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.
- 2 L (Noun) 2L
- 2L (Noun) The second year of law school.
- 2L (Noun) A law student in the second year of law school.
- 2d Cir. (Proper name) Abbreviation of United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
- 3d Cir. (Proper name) Abbreviation of United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
- 4-L (Noun) Alternative spelling of four L
- 419 (Noun) A 419 fraud; any of the various advance-fee frauds in which the scammer solicits up front payments promising large sums of money.
- 419 fraud (Noun) A scam in which the solicitor offers large sums of money in return for a smaller up front investment.
- 419 scam (Noun) A 419 fraud.
- 4L (Noun) Alternative spelling of four L
- 4th Cir. (Proper name) Abbreviation of United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.
- 501(c)(3) (Noun) An organization that complies with section 501(c)(3) of the U.S. federal tax code. A non-profit organization exempt from some federal income taxes, due to being dedicated to charitable, religious, educational, scientific, public safety, promotion of amateur sport at the national or international level, prevention of cruelty to women or children or animals, or literary purposes.
- 501(c)(4) (Noun) An organization that complies with section 501(c)(4) of the U.S. federal tax code. A non-profit organization exempt from some federal income taxes, due to being dedicated social welfare purposes.
- 5150 (Verb) To involuntarily confine a person for a mental illness that poses a risk to themselves or others.
- 5th Cir. (Proper name) Abbreviation of United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
- 6th Cir. (Proper name) Abbreviation of United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.
- 7th Cir. (Proper name) Abbreviation of United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.
- 8th Cir. (Proper name) Abbreviation of United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.
- 9-1-1 (Proper name) Alternative spelling of 911
- 9-1-1 (Noun) Alternative spelling of 911
- 9-1-1 (Verb) Alternative spelling of 911
- 911 (Proper name) The telephone number for emergency services in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Belize, Costa Rica, Argentina, Uruguay, Ecuador, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, Liberia, Ethiopia, the Philippines, Anguilla, Palau, and Tonga.
- 990 (Noun) An IRS form for tax-exempt organizations (such as charities).
- 999 (Proper name) The telephone number for emergency services in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Hong Kong, Macau, Malaysia, Bangladesh, Burma, Bahrain, Qatar, the UAE, Kenya, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Ghana, Sudan, South Sudan, Sierra Leone, Guyana, Antigua and Barbuda, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent, Dominica, Kiribati, Samoa, the Solomon Islands, and the Seychelles.
- 999 (Proper name) The telephone number for law enforcement in Singapore, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Eswatini, Botswana, Tanzania, Mauritius, and Trinidad and Tobago.
- 999 (Noun) Emergency services; emergency service personnel.
- 9th Cir. (Proper name) Abbreviation of United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
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