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    Basic Needs: He Followed The Law. The Law of Supply and Demand Civil Law Criminal Law

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    Basic Needs

    [l3:]
    -s[-z]
    Everyday Expressions
    n.
    Nobody is above and outside the law.
    n.
    I studied law in college.
    n.
    He followed the law.
    n.
    the law of supply and demand
    --- civil law
    --- criminal law
    --- corporate law
    --- environmental law
    --- immigration laws
    --- domestic law
    --- tariff laws
    --- marriage law
    --- traffic laws

    lawful legal, illegal


    lawless
    lawyer

    lawsuit

    Linguistic Skill

    Useful Phrases
    --- law-abiding
    --- natural law
    --- the laws of physics
    --- to execute the law
    --- take legal action against
    --- to break a law
    --- to flout the law
    --- to be a law unto oneself
    Idioms & Slang
    the law of the jungle ---
    to take the law into own hands ---
    to have the law on sb. ---
    There is no law against sth. ---

    Communicating Clearly
    Street Talks
    A: Everybody is equal before the law. Why do you treat me
    like that?
    B: Youre my son!
    A: Ill have the law on you.
    Its against the law to steal.
    My father-in-law is a reporter of The New York Times.
    Ill have to consult a lawyer to understand the new tax law.
    Ill stay in this couch as long as I like-theres no law against it.

    Cultural Focus
    Transcripts

    You went to law school, you never took the bar.

    Proverbs
    Better no law than laws not enforced.

    Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.

    Quotations
    Justice?-You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law.
    William Gaddis (b. 1922), U.S. novelist. A Frolic of His Own, Scribner (1994).

    An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.
    Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869-1948), Indian political and spiritual leader. NonViolence in Peace and War, vol. 2, ch. 150 (1949).

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