ADJ
- administrative, case, civil, common, constitutional, contract, criminal, international, statute, etc.
VERB + LAW
- become
- Parliament voted for the bill to become law
- enforce, uphold
- It's the job of the police to enforce the law
- obey, observe
- break, flout, violate
- adopt, enact, pass
- annul, repeal
- interpret
- Judges interpret this law in different ways
LAW + VERB
- allow sth, forbid sth, prohibit sth
- The law forbids gambling of any kind
- permit sth
- require sth
- The wearing of a crash helmet is required by law
- govern sth
- the law governing school attendance
PREP
- above the ~
- No one is above the law
- against the ~
- What you did was clearly against the law
- by ~
- By law, you are obliged to install smoke alarms in the factory
- within the ~
- The company is operating entirely within the law
- ~ against
- a local law against keeping horses
- ~ concerning
- the law concerning industrial action ballots
- ~ on
- A law on hunting will cause a lot of disagreements
- ~ relating to
- the law relating to the sale of goods
PHRASES
- as the law stands
- As the law stands, you can get married while still too young to have a driving licence
- law and order
- Martial law was imposed to prevent the breakdown of law and order
- the letter of the law
- In spite of the difficulties it would cause her family, the judge stuck to the letter of the law and jailed her
- take the law into your own hands
- When police failed to arrest the suspect, local people took the law into their own hands and beat him up