plural of husband-in-law

The practice of condemning and punishing a person by mob action without a proper trial.

Titius-Bode law

(law, historical) The giving of gage, or sureties, by a defendant in an action of debt, that at a certain day assigned he would take an oath in open court that he did not owe the debt, and at the same time bring with him eleven compurgators who would avow that they believed in their consciences that he spoke the truth.

A plain style of binding in smooth pale-brown calf leather, used for law books.

A law concerning the frequency distribution of digits in much real-world data, where the number 1 occurs as the leading digit about 30% of the time, and the expected distribution for digits beyond the first approaches a uniform distribution.

(UK, Canada) the body of statute law that regulates the relationship between employer, employee, labour union and government.

Alternative form of the law is an ass

The law, as created by legislators or as administered by the justice system, cannot be relied upon to be sensible or fair.

(economics) An empirically observed relationship between unemployment and losses in a country's production. The "gap version" states that for every 1% increase in the unemployment rate, a country's GDP will be roughly an additional 2% lower than its potential GDP. The "difference version" describes the relationship between quarterly changes in unemployment and quarterly changes in real GDP.