10 sentences with 'law'
Example sentences and phrases with the word law and other words derived from it.
• « Treason, one of the most serious crimes under the law, is the violation of a person's loyalty to the state that protects him. »
• « On the Norwegian side, the case was brought by Jens Evensen, the country's most distinguished lawyer in international law. »
• « Along with literature, the other great written achievements of the Mesopotamians were their systems of law. »
• « The most important surviving law code is that of the Babylonian king Hammurabi, dating from around 1780 BCE. »
• « Hammurabi's law code went into great detail about the rights and obligations of the Babylonians. »
• « Moreover, all Greek citizens were equal before the law, which was a radical departure, since most other civilisations had different sets of laws based on class identity (there were, however, considerable ironies in Greek notions of "equality"). »
• « The main problem was that the aristocrats owned most of the land on which other farmers worked, many of those farmers were increasingly indebted to the aristocrats and, according to Athenian law, anyone who could not pay their debts could be legally enslaved. »
• « He also enacted a new law decreeing that only the children of Athenian parents could be Athenian citizens, a measure that elevated the importance of Athenian women, but also further entrenched the Athenian conceit in relation to other Greek cities; Athenians wanted citizenship to be their own carefully protected commodity. »
• « The Celts were a warrior society that seems to have practised a variant of what would later become known as feudal law, in which every crime demanded retribution in the first of them, either violence or 'golden man' - the payment necessary to atone for a crime and thus prevent the escalation of violence. »