Word info

good law

Noun

Meaning

good law (uncountable)

(law) A legal statute, regulation, or judicial decision that is considered still valid and applicable.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

Law is order, and good law is good order. Aristotle

Common sense often makes good law. William O. Douglas

A nation which thinks that it is belief in God and not good law which makes people honest does not seem to me very advanced. Denis Diderot

It is far more important the law should be administered with absolute integrity, than that in this case or in that the law should be a good law or a bad one. John Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge

That seems to us to be the common sense of the matter; and common sense often makes good law. William O. Douglas

These are Canadian and United States intelligence and law enforcement offices who are working in teams and who are using good intelligence and good law enforcement to really stop the criminals and terrorists before they ever get to the border. Paul Cellucci

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