(US, law) A criminal sentencing structure under which the third conviction results in a mandatory life sentence.

(UK, law) Synonym of English law (“common law legal system of England and Wales”).

Alternative form of Law of the Medes and Persians

(physics) A rule relating the decay constant of a radioactive isotope with the energy of the alpha particles emitted. Roughly speaking, it states that short-lived isotopes emit more energetic alpha particles than long-lived ones.

(economics) In economics, the theory there is a general decrease in the utility of a product, as more units of it are consumed.

Dated form of possession is nine-tenths of the law.

One who has possession of a thing has some right to it; a popular statement of the doctrine of adverse possession.

The generalization that, when a system is in equilibrium, of the two opposed interactions, the endothermic is promoted by raising the temperature and the exothermic by lowering it.

(law) A law that justifies the use of lethal force when it is necessary to defend oneself against great bodily harm, kidnapping, rape, robbery or any other serious crime without a duty to retreat.

Alternative form of every law has its loophole