"law-way" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "law",
        "3": "-way"
      },
      "expansion": "law + -way",
      "name": "suffix"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "foodway"
      },
      "expansion": "foodway",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "law + -way; compare foodway.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "law-ways",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "law-way (plural law-ways)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
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        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
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          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -way",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1941, K. N. Llewellyn, E. Adamson Hoebel, The Cheyenne Way: Conflict and Case Law in Primitive Jurisprudence, University of Oklahoma Press, page 38",
          "text": "Finally, and in respect of the juristic level of the net law-way of a culture, the work of the police courts is as vital to a people as the “constitutional decisions” of the Highest Nine—not more vital, but as vital—in Cheyenne as in the United States.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A community's specific set of laws and legal practices."
      ],
      "id": "en-law-way-en-noun-LGrszket",
      "links": [
        [
          "community",
          "community"
        ],
        [
          "laws",
          "laws"
        ],
        [
          "legal",
          "legal"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "law-way"
}

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "law",
        "3": "-way"
      },
      "expansion": "law + -way",
      "name": "suffix"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "foodway"
      },
      "expansion": "foodway",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "law + -way; compare foodway.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "law-ways",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "law-way (plural law-ways)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms suffixed with -way",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1941, K. N. Llewellyn, E. Adamson Hoebel, The Cheyenne Way: Conflict and Case Law in Primitive Jurisprudence, University of Oklahoma Press, page 38",
          "text": "Finally, and in respect of the juristic level of the net law-way of a culture, the work of the police courts is as vital to a people as the “constitutional decisions” of the Highest Nine—not more vital, but as vital—in Cheyenne as in the United States.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A community's specific set of laws and legal practices."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "community",
          "community"
        ],
        [
          "laws",
          "laws"
        ],
        [
          "legal",
          "legal"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "law-way"
}