All prescript synonyms
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P p noun prescript
- bylaw — A bylaw is a law which is made by a local authority and which applies only in their area.
- jurisprudence — the science or philosophy of law.
- devoirs — compliments or respects; courteous attentions
- command — If someone in authority commands you to do something, they tell you that you must do it.
- adjuration — a solemn charge or command
- apophthegm — a short cryptic remark containing some general or generally accepted truth; maxim
- ordinance — an authoritative rule or law; a decree or command.
- writ — Law. a formal order under seal, issued in the name of a sovereign, government, court, or other competent authority, enjoining the officer or other person to whom it is issued or addressed to do or refrain from some specified act. (in early English law) any formal document in letter form, under seal, and in the sovereign's name.
- habeas corpus — a writ requiring a person to be brought before a judge or court, especially for investigation of a restraint of the person's liberty, used as a protection against illegal imprisonment.
- edict — a decree issued by a sovereign or other authority. Synonyms: dictum, pronouncement.
- by-word — a word or phrase associated with some person or thing; a characteristic expression, typical greeting, or the like.
- maxim — Hiram Percy, 1869–1936, U.S. inventor.
- decree — A decree is an official order or decision, especially one made by the ruler of a country.
- institute — to set up; establish; organize: to institute a government.
- in-junction — Law. a judicial process or order requiring the person or persons to whom it is directed to do a particular act or to refrain from doing a particular act.
- law — software law
- devoir — duty; obligation
- decretum — the name given to various collections of canon law, esp that made by the monk Gratian in the 12th century, which forms the first part of the Corpus Juris Canonici
- golden rule — a rule of ethical conduct, usually phrased “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you,” or, as in the Sermon on the Mount, “Whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so unto them.” Matt. 7:12; Luke 6:31.