Obeying the laws of society; not a lawbreaker; without a criminal record.

plural of father-in-law

(law) The area of law that deals with ships at sea and the rights of sailors, passengers, and owners of cargo.

(chemistry) Any of the laws of nature that are relevant to chemistry.

(law) the area of law concerned with the ownership and conveyance of property rights and title. / The formal course in property law required of most first-year law school students in common-law systems.

(physics) A law which shows that the magnetic susceptibility of a paramagnetic dipole is inversely proportional to the absolute temperature; the basis of operation of magnetic thermometers.

(physics) The observation that the pressure of an ideal gas is inversely proportional to its volume at constant temperature.

(physics) The law stating that the density of an ideal gas is inversely proportional to its temperature at constant pressure.

(law) Any law that makes a prior legal act illegal, or increases the penalty for a prior illegal act.

An academic institution at which post-graduate students are prepared for the practice of law.