"have the law of someone" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "has the law of someone",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "having the law of someone",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "had the law of someone",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "had the law of someone",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "have<has,,had> the law of someone"
      },
      "expansion": "have the law of someone (third-person singular simple present has the law of someone, present participle having the law of someone, simple past and past participle had the law of someone)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1902, W. B. Yeats, Freedom of the Theatre",
          "text": "But those citizens of the Corporation, hungry to have the law of him, saw nothing it may be but a bad example.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1800, Maria Edgeworth, Castle Rackrent",
          "text": "It is a kind of lottery, in which every man, staking his own wit or cunning against his neighbour's property, feels that he has little to lose, and much to gain. \"I'll have the law of you, so I will!\" — is the saying of an Englishman, who expects justice.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To take legal action against someone."
      ],
      "id": "en-have_the_law_of_someone-en-verb-M0eBKQOl",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(colloquial, idiomatic, dated) To take legal action against someone."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "colloquial",
        "dated",
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "have the law of someone"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "has the law of someone",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "having the law of someone",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "had the law of someone",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "had the law of someone",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "have<has,,had> the law of someone"
      },
      "expansion": "have the law of someone (third-person singular simple present has the law of someone, present participle having the law of someone, simple past and past participle had the law of someone)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English colloquialisms",
        "English dated terms",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English idioms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1902, W. B. Yeats, Freedom of the Theatre",
          "text": "But those citizens of the Corporation, hungry to have the law of him, saw nothing it may be but a bad example.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1800, Maria Edgeworth, Castle Rackrent",
          "text": "It is a kind of lottery, in which every man, staking his own wit or cunning against his neighbour's property, feels that he has little to lose, and much to gain. \"I'll have the law of you, so I will!\" — is the saying of an Englishman, who expects justice.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To take legal action against someone."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(colloquial, idiomatic, dated) To take legal action against someone."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "colloquial",
        "dated",
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "have the law of someone"
}