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Brewer's: Boyle's Law
“The volume of a gas is inversely as the pressure.” If we double the pressure on a gas, its volume is reduced to one-half; if we quadruple the pressure, it will be reduced to one-fourth;…Brewer's: By-laws
Local laws. From by, a borough. Properly, laws by a Town Council, and bearing only on the borough or company over which it has jurisdiction. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E.…Brewer's: Canon Law
A collection of ecclesiastical laws which serve as the rule of church government. (See below.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894CanonicalCanon A B C D E…Brewer's: Cowper Law
a corruption of Cupar, etc., is trying a man after execution. Similar expressions are Jedwood, Jeddart, and Jedburgh justice. Cowper justice had its rise from a baron-baile in Coupar-Angus…Brewer's: Club-law
The law of might or compulsion through fear of chastisement. Do it or get a hiding. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894ClueClub-land A B C D E F G H I…Brewer's: Stafford Law
Club law. A beating. The pun is on the word staff, a stick. (Italian, Braccésca licenza.) (Florio, p. 66.) (See above.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer,…Brewer's: Storks' Law
or Lex Ciconaria. A Roman law which obliged children to maintain their necessitous parents in old age, “in imitation of the stork.” Also called “Antipelargia.” Source: Dictionary of…Brewer's: Sumptuary Laws
Laws to limit the expenses of food and dress, or any luxury. The Romans had their sumptuary laws (leges sumptuarii). Such laws have been enacted in many states at various times. Those of…Brewer's: Red Laws
(The). The civil code of ancient Rome. Juvenal says, “Per lege rubras majoram leges” (Satires, xiv. 193). The civil laws, being written in vermillion, were called rubrica, and rubrica…Brewer's: Rhodian Law
The earliest system of marine law known to history; compiled by the Rhodians about 900 B.C. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894RhoneRhodian Bully A B C D E…Trending
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