"law-ways" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "law-way",
      "tags": [
        "singular"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "p",
        "sg": "law-way"
      },
      "expansion": "law-ways pl (normally plural, singular law-way)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English pluralia tantum",
          "parents": [
            "Pluralia tantum",
            "Nouns",
            "Lemmas"
          ],
          "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": "We have aimed at the development of a social science instrument for the recording and interpretation of law-ways among primitive peoples; the Cheyennes and their Way provide the subject material.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1997, Irene Watson, “Indigenous Peoples' Law-Ways: Survival Against the Colonial State”, in Australian Feminist Law Journal, volume 8, number 1, →DOI, page 45",
          "text": "Indigenous Peoples' law-ways are similar throughout Australia and the world. We share a belief in the creation, a time in which the law itself was created.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, Randall Amster, “Restoring (Dis)order: Sanctions, Resolutions, and 'Social Control' in Anarchist Communities”, in Contemporary Justice Review, volume 6, number 1, →DOI, page 18",
          "text": "Communitarian justice generally employs local or indigenous law-ways and not state law; is bound up with attempts to create a new religious or utopian social order, advocates decentralization and the application of community norms instead of legal rules of procedure; and focuses on feelings and individual expression ...",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A community's specific set of laws and legal practices."
      ],
      "id": "en-law-ways-en-noun-LGrszket",
      "links": [
        [
          "community",
          "community"
        ],
        [
          "laws",
          "laws"
        ],
        [
          "legal",
          "legal"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "plural-normally"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "law-ways"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "law-way",
      "tags": [
        "singular"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "p",
        "sg": "law-way"
      },
      "expansion": "law-ways pl (normally plural, singular law-way)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English pluralia tantum",
        "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": "We have aimed at the development of a social science instrument for the recording and interpretation of law-ways among primitive peoples; the Cheyennes and their Way provide the subject material.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1997, Irene Watson, “Indigenous Peoples' Law-Ways: Survival Against the Colonial State”, in Australian Feminist Law Journal, volume 8, number 1, →DOI, page 45",
          "text": "Indigenous Peoples' law-ways are similar throughout Australia and the world. We share a belief in the creation, a time in which the law itself was created.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, Randall Amster, “Restoring (Dis)order: Sanctions, Resolutions, and 'Social Control' in Anarchist Communities”, in Contemporary Justice Review, volume 6, number 1, →DOI, page 18",
          "text": "Communitarian justice generally employs local or indigenous law-ways and not state law; is bound up with attempts to create a new religious or utopian social order, advocates decentralization and the application of community norms instead of legal rules of procedure; and focuses on feelings and individual expression ...",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A community's specific set of laws and legal practices."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "community",
          "community"
        ],
        [
          "laws",
          "laws"
        ],
        [
          "legal",
          "legal"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "plural-normally"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "law-ways"
}