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slovo definícia riot (mass) riot - povstanie riot (encz) riot,bouřit v: Zdeněk Brož riot (encz) riot,demonstrace n: Zdeněk Brož riot (encz) riot,hýření n: Zdeněk Brož riot (encz) riot,nepokoj Zdeněk Brož riot (encz) riot,povstání n: Zdeněk Brož riot (encz) riot,povyk n: Zdeněk Brož riot (encz) riot,pozdvižení n: Zdeněk Brož riot (encz) riot,rvačka n: Zdeněk Brož riot (encz) riot,výtržnost n: Zdeněk Brož riot (encz) riot,vzbouření n: Zdeněk Brož riot (encz) riot,vzpoura n: Zdeněk Brož Riot (gcide) Riot \Ri"ot\, v. t. To spend or pass in riot. [1913 Webster] [He] had rioted his life out. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster] Riot (gcide) Riot \Ri"ot\, n. [OF. riote, of uncertain origin; cf. OD. revot, ravot.] 1. Wanton or unrestrained behavior; uproar; tumult. [1913 Webster] His headstrong riot hath no curb. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. Excessive and exxpensive feasting; wild and loose festivity; revelry. [1913 Webster] Venus loveth riot and dispense. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day. --Pope. [1913 Webster] 3. (Law) The tumultuous disturbance of the public peace by an unlawful assembly of three or more persons in the execution of some private object. [1913 Webster] To run riot, to act wantonly or without restraint. [1913 Webster] Riot (gcide) Riot \Ri"ot\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Rioted; p. pr. & vb. n. Rioting.] [OF. rioter; cf. OD. ravotten.] 1. To engage in riot; to act in an unrestrained or wanton manner; to indulge in excess of luxury, feasting, or the like; to revel; to run riot; to go to excess. [1913 Webster] Now he exact of all, wastes in delight, Riots in pleasure, and neglects the law. --Daniel. [1913 Webster] No pulse that riots, and no blood that glows. --Pope. [1913 Webster] 2. (Law) To disturb the peace; to raise an uproar or sedition. See Riot, n., 3. --Johnson. [1913 Webster] riot (wn) riot n 1: a public act of violence by an unruly mob [syn: riot, public violence] 2: a state of disorder involving group violence [syn: rioting, riot] 3: a joke that seems extremely funny [syn: belly laugh, sidesplitter, howler, thigh-slapper, scream, wow, riot] 4: a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity [syn: orgy, debauch, debauchery, saturnalia, riot, bacchanal, bacchanalia, drunken revelry] v 1: take part in a riot; disturb the public peace by engaging in a riot; "Students were rioting everywhere in 1968" 2: engage in boisterous, drunken merrymaking; "They were out carousing last night" [syn: carouse, roister, riot] riot (devil) RIOT, n. A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders. RIOT (bouvier) RIOT, crim. law. At common law a riot is a tumultuous disturbance of the peace, by three persons or more assembling together of their own authority, with an intent, mutually to assist each other against any who shall oppose them, in the execution of some enterprise of a private nature, and afterwards actually executing the same in a violent and turbulent manner, to the terror of the people, whether the act intended were of itself lawful or unlawful. 2. In this case there must be proved, first, an unlawful assembling; for if a number of persons lawfully met together; as, for example, at a fire, in a theatre or a church, should suddenly quarrel and fight, the offence is an affray and not a riot, because there was no unlawful assembling; but if three or more being so assembled, on a dispute occurring, they form into parties with promises of mutual assistance, which promises may be express, or implied from the circumstances, then the offence will no longer be an affray, but a riot; the unlawful combination will amount to an assembling within the meaning of the law. In this manner any lawful assembly may be converted into a riot. Any one who joins the rioters after they have actually commenced, is equally guilty as if he had joined them while assembling. 3. Secondly, proof must be made of actual violence and force on the part of the rioters, or of such circumstances as have an apparent tendency to force and violence, and calculated to strike terror into the public mind. The definition requires that the offenders should assemble of their own authority, in order to create a riot; if, therefore, the parties act under the authority of the law, they may use any necessary force to enforce their mandate, without committing this offence. 4. Thirdly, evidence must be given that the defendants acted in the riot, and were participants in the disturbance. Vide 1 Russ. on Cr. 247 Vin. Ab. h.t.; Hawk. c. 65, s. 1, 8, 9; 3 Inst. 176; 4 Bl. Com. 146 Com. Dig. h.t.; Chit. Cr. Law, Index, h.t. Roscoe, Cr. Ev. h.t.

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Zdeněk Brožriots,výtržnosti n: Zdeněk Brož superpatriotic (encz) superpatriotic, adj: superpatriotism (encz) superpatriotism, n: unpatriotic (encz) unpatriotic,nevlastenecký adj: Zdeněk Brož unpatriotically (encz) unpatriotically, adv: jidáš iškariotský (czen) Jidáš Iškariotský,Judas Iscariotn: [jmén.] zrádce Ježíše Stanislav Horáček marriott (czen) Marriott,Marriottn: [jmén.] příjmení Zdeněk Brož a automatický překlad patrioti (czen) patrioti,patriotsn: Zdeněk Brož patriotický (czen) patriotický,patrioticadj: Zdeněk Brož patriotismus (czen) patriotismus,patriotismn: Zdeněk Brož Arteriotomy (gcide) Arteriotomy \Ar*te`ri*ot"o*my\, n. [L. arteriotomia, Gr. ?; ? + ? a cutting.] 1. (Med.) The opening of an artery, esp. for bloodletting. [1913 Webster] 2. That part of anatomy which treats of the dissection of the arteries. [1913 Webster] Chariot (gcide) Chariot \Char"i*ot\, n. [F. Chariot, from char car. See Car.] 1. (Antiq.) A two-wheeled car or vehicle for war, racing, state processions, etc. [1913 Webster] First moved the chariots, after whom the foot. --Cowper. [1913 Webster] 2. A four-wheeled pleasure or state carriage, having one seat. --Shak. [1913 Webster]Chariot \Char"i*ot\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Charioted; p. pr. & vb. n. Charioting.] To convey in a chariot. --Milton. [1913 Webster] Charioted (gcide) Chariot \Char"i*ot\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Charioted; p. pr. & vb. n. Charioting.] To convey in a chariot. --Milton. [1913 Webster] Chariotee (gcide) Chariotee \Char`i*ot*ee"\, n. A light, covered, four-wheeled pleasure carriage with two seats. [1913 Webster] Charioteer (gcide) Charioteer \Char`i*ot*eer"\, n. 1. One who drives a chariot. [1913 Webster] 2. (Astron.) A constellation. See Auriga, and Wagones. [1913 Webster]Coachman \Coach"man\, n.; pl. Coachmen. 1. A man whose business is to drive a coach or carriage. [1913 Webster] 2. (Zool.) A tropical fish of the Atlantic ocean ({Dutes auriga}); -- called also charioteer. The name refers to a long, lashlike spine of the dorsal fin. [1913 Webster] charioteer (gcide) Charioteer \Char`i*ot*eer"\, n. 1. One who drives a chariot. [1913 Webster] 2. (Astron.) A constellation. See Auriga, and Wagones. [1913 Webster]Coachman \Coach"man\, n.; pl. Coachmen. 1. A man whose business is to drive a coach or carriage. [1913 Webster] 2. (Zool.) A tropical fish of the Atlantic ocean ({Dutes auriga}); -- called also charioteer. The name refers to a long, lashlike spine of the dorsal fin. [1913 Webster] Charioting (gcide) Chariot \Char"i*ot\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Charioted; p. pr. & vb. n. Charioting.] To convey in a chariot. --Milton. [1913 Webster] Choriotis australis (gcide) Native \Na"tive\ (n[=a]"t[i^]v), a. [F. natif, L. nativus, fr. nasci, p. p. natus. See Nation, and cf. Na["i]ve, Neif a serf.] 1. Arising by birth; having an origin; born. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Anaximander's opinion is, that the gods are native, rising and vanishing again in long periods of times. --Cudworth. [1913 Webster] 2. Of or pertaining to one's birth; natal; belonging to the place or the circumstances in which one is born; -- opposed to foreign; as, native land, language, color, etc. [1913 Webster] 3. Born in the region in which one lives; as, a native inhabitant, race; grown or originating in the region where used or sold; not foreign or imported; as, native oysters, or strawberries. In the latter sense, synonymous with domestic. [1913 Webster +PJC] 4. Original; constituting the original substance of anything; as, native dust. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 5. Conferred by birth; derived from origin; born with one; inherent; inborn; not acquired; as, native genius, cheerfulness, wit, simplicity, rights, intelligence, etc. Having the same meaning as congenital, but typically used for positive qualities, whereas congenital may be used for negative qualities. See also congenital [1913 Webster +PJC] Courage is native to you. --Jowett (Thucyd.). [1913 Webster] 6. Naturally related; cognate; connected (with). [R.] [1913 Webster] the head is not more native to the heart, . . . Than is the throne of Denmark to thy father. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 7. (Min.) (a) Found in nature uncombined with other elements; as, native silver, copper, gold. (b) Found in nature; not artificial; as native sodium chloride. [1913 Webster] Native American party. See under American, a. Native bear (Zool.), the koala. Native bread (Bot.), a large underground fungus, of Australia (Mylitta australis), somewhat resembling a truffle, but much larger. Native devil. (Zool.) Same as Tasmanian devil, under Devil. Native hen (Zool.), an Australian rail ({Tribonyx Mortierii}). Native pheasant. (Zool.) See Leipoa. Native rabbit (Zool.), an Australian marsupial ({Perameles lagotis}) resembling a rabbit in size and form. Native sloth (Zool.), the koala. Native thrush (Zool.), an Australian singing bird (Pachycephala olivacea); -- called also thickhead. Native turkey (Zool.), the Australian bustard ({Choriotis australis}); -- called also bebilya. [1913 Webster] Syn: Natural; natal; original; congenital. Usage: Native, Natural, Natal. natural refers to the nature of a thing, or that which springs therefrom; native, to one's birth or origin; as, a native country, language, etc.; natal, to the circumstances of one's birth; as, a natal day, or star. Native talent is that which is inborn; natural talent is that which springs from the structure of the mind. Native eloquence is the result of strong innate emotion; natural eloquence is opposed to that which is studied or artificial. [1913 Webster]Turkey \Tur"key\ (t[^u]r"k[=e]), n.; pl. Turkeys. [So called because it was formerly erroneously believed that it came originally from Turkey: cf. F. Turquie Turkey. See Turk.] (Zool.) Any large American gallinaceous bird belonging to the genus Meleagris, especially the North American wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo), and the domestic turkey, which was probably derived from the Mexican wild turkey, but had been domesticated by the Indians long before the discovery of America. [1913 Webster] Note: The Mexican wild turkey is now considered a variety of the northern species (var. Mexicana). Its tail feathers and coverts are tipped with white instead of brownish chestnut, and its flesh is white. The Central American, or ocellated, turkey (Meleagris ocellata) is more elegantly colored than the common species. See under Ocellated. The Australian, or native, turkey is a bustard (Choriotis australis). See under Native. [1913 Webster] Turkey beard (Bot.), a name of certain American perennial liliaceous herbs of the genus Xerophyllum. They have a dense tuft of hard, narrowly linear radical leaves, and a long raceme of small whitish flowers. Also called turkey's beard. Turkey berry (Bot.), a West Indian name for the fruit of certain kinds of nightshade (Solanum mammosum, and Solanum torvum). Turkey bird (Zool.), the wryneck. So called because it erects and ruffles the feathers of its neck when disturbed. [Prov. Eng.] Turkey buzzard (Zool.), a black or nearly black buzzard (Cathartes aura), abundant in the Southern United States. It is so called because its naked and warty head and neck resemble those of a turkey. It is noted for its high and graceful flight. Called also turkey vulture. Turkey cock (Zool.), a male turkey. Turkey hen (Zool.), a female turkey. Turkey pout (Zool.), a young turkey. [R.] Turkey vulture (Zool.), the turkey buzzard. [1913 Webster] Compatriot (gcide) Compatriot \Com*pa"tri*ot\, a. Of the same country; having a common sentiment of patriotism. [1913 Webster] She [Britain] rears to freedom an undaunted race, Compatriot, zealous, hospitable, kind. --Thomson. [1913 Webster]Compatriot \Com*pa"tri*ot\, n. [F. compatriote, LL. compatriotus; com- + patriota a native. See Patriot, and cf. Copatriot.] One of the same country, and having like interests and feeling. [1913 Webster] The distrust with which they felt themselves to be regarded by their compatriots in America. --Palfrey. [1913 Webster] Compatriotism (gcide) Compatriotism \Com*pa"tri*ot*ism\, n. The condition of being compatriots. [1913 Webster] Copatriot (gcide) Copatriot \Co*pa"tri*ot\, n. A joint patriot. [1913 Webster] Cypriot (gcide) Cypriot \Cyp"ri*ot\, Cypriote \Cyp"ri*ote\(s?p"r?-?t), n. [F. Cypriot, Chypriot.] A native or inhabitant of Cyprus. Syn: Cypriot, Cyprian. [1913 Webster] CypriotCypriot \Cyp"ri*ot\, Cypriote \Cyp"ri*ote\adj. of or relating to Cyprus or its people or culture; as, Cypriote monasteries. Syn: Cyprian, Cypriot. [WordNet 1.5] Cypriote (gcide) Cypriot \Cyp"ri*ot\, Cypriote \Cyp"ri*ote\(s?p"r?-?t), n. [F. Cypriot, Chypriot.] A native or inhabitant of Cyprus. Syn: Cypriot, Cyprian. [1913 Webster] CypriotCypriot \Cyp"ri*ot\, Cypriote \Cyp"ri*ote\adj. of or relating to Cyprus or its people or culture; as, Cypriote monasteries. Syn: Cyprian, Cypriot. [WordNet 1.5] Egriot (gcide) Egriot \E"gri*ot\, n. [F. aigrette, griotte, formerly agriote; cf. aigre sour.] A kind of sour cherry. --Bacon. [1913 Webster] Heriot (gcide) Heriot \Her"i*ot\, n. [AS. heregeatu military equipment, heriot; here army + geatwe, pl., arms, equipments.] (Eng. Law) Formerly, a payment or tribute of arms or military accouterments, or the best beast, or chattel, due to the lord on the death of a tenant; in modern use, a customary tribute of goods or chattels to the lord of the fee, paid on the decease of a tenant. --Blackstone. Bouvier. [1913 Webster] Heriot custom, a heriot depending on usage. Heriot service (Law), a heriot due by reservation in a grant or lease of lands. --Spelman. Blackstone. [1913 Webster] Heriot custom (gcide) Heriot \Her"i*ot\, n. [AS. heregeatu military equipment, heriot; here army + geatwe, pl., arms, equipments.] (Eng. Law) Formerly, a payment or tribute of arms or military accouterments, or the best beast, or chattel, due to the lord on the death of a tenant; in modern use, a customary tribute of goods or chattels to the lord of the fee, paid on the decease of a tenant. --Blackstone. Bouvier. [1913 Webster] Heriot custom, a heriot depending on usage. Heriot service (Law), a heriot due by reservation in a grant or lease of lands. --Spelman. Blackstone. [1913 Webster] Heriot service (gcide) Heriot \Her"i*ot\, n. [AS. heregeatu military equipment, heriot; here army + geatwe, pl., arms, equipments.] (Eng. Law) Formerly, a payment or tribute of arms or military accouterments, or the best beast, or chattel, due to the lord on the death of a tenant; in modern use, a customary tribute of goods or chattels to the lord of the fee, paid on the decease of a tenant. --Blackstone. Bouvier. [1913 Webster] Heriot custom, a heriot depending on usage. Heriot service (Law), a heriot due by reservation in a grant or lease of lands. --Spelman. Blackstone. [1913 Webster] Heriotable (gcide) Heriotable \Her"i*ot*a*ble\, a. Subject to the payment of a heriot. --Burn. [1913 Webster] law of Boyle and Mariotte (gcide) Law \Law\ (l[add]), n. [OE. lawe, laghe, AS. lagu, from the root of E. lie: akin to OS. lag, Icel. l["o]g, Sw. lag, Dan. lov; cf. L. lex, E. legal. A law is that which is laid, set, or fixed; like statute, fr. L. statuere to make to stand. See Lie to be prostrate.] 1. In general, a rule of being or of conduct, established by an authority able to enforce its will; a controlling regulation; the mode or order according to which an agent or a power acts. [1913 Webster] Note: A law may be universal or particular, written or unwritten, published or secret. From the nature of the highest laws a degree of permanency or stability is always implied; but the power which makes a law, or a superior power, may annul or change it. [1913 Webster] These are the statutes and judgments and laws, which the Lord made. --Lev. xxvi. 46. [1913 Webster] The law of thy God, and the law of the King. --Ezra vii. 26. [1913 Webster] As if they would confine the Interminable . . . Who made our laws to bind us, not himself. --Milton. [1913 Webster] His mind his kingdom, and his will his law. --Cowper. [1913 Webster] 2. In morals: The will of God as the rule for the disposition and conduct of all responsible beings toward him and toward each other; a rule of living, conformable to righteousness; the rule of action as obligatory on the conscience or moral nature. [1913 Webster] 3. The Jewish or Mosaic code, and that part of Scripture where it is written, in distinction from the gospel; hence, also, the Old Testament. Specifically: the first five books of the bible, called also Torah, Pentatech, or Law of Moses. [1913 Webster +PJC] What things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law . . . But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets. --Rom. iii. 19, 21. [1913 Webster] 4. In human government: (a) An organic rule, as a constitution or charter, establishing and defining the conditions of the existence of a state or other organized community. (b) Any edict, decree, order, ordinance, statute, resolution, judicial, decision, usage, etc., or recognized, and enforced, by the controlling authority. [1913 Webster] 5. In philosophy and physics: A rule of being, operation, or change, so certain and constant that it is conceived of as imposed by the will of God or by some controlling authority; as, the law of gravitation; the laws of motion; the law heredity; the laws of thought; the laws of cause and effect; law of self-preservation. [1913 Webster] 6. In mathematics: The rule according to which anything, as the change of value of a variable, or the value of the terms of a series, proceeds; mode or order of sequence. [1913 Webster] 7. In arts, works, games, etc.: The rules of construction, or of procedure, conforming to the conditions of success; a principle, maxim; or usage; as, the laws of poetry, of architecture, of courtesy, or of whist. [1913 Webster] 8. Collectively, the whole body of rules relating to one subject, or emanating from one source; -- including usually the writings pertaining to them, and judicial proceedings under them; as, divine law; English law; Roman law; the law of real property; insurance law. [1913 Webster] 9. Legal science; jurisprudence; the principles of equity; applied justice. [1913 Webster] Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason. --Coke. [1913 Webster] Law is beneficence acting by rule. --Burke. [1913 Webster] And sovereign Law, that state's collected will O'er thrones and globes elate, Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill. --Sir W. Jones. [1913 Webster] 10. Trial by the laws of the land; judicial remedy; litigation; as, to go law. [1913 Webster] When every case in law is right. --Shak. [1913 Webster] He found law dear and left it cheap. --Brougham. [1913 Webster] 11. An oath, as in the presence of a court. [Obs.] See {Wager of law}, under Wager. [1913 Webster] Avogadro's law (Chem.), a fundamental conception, according to which, under similar conditions of temperature and pressure, all gases and vapors contain in the same volume the same number of ultimate molecules; -- so named after Avogadro, an Italian scientist. Sometimes called Amp[`e]re's law. Bode's law (Astron.), an approximative empirical expression of the distances of the planets from the sun, as follows: -- Mer. Ven. Earth. Mars. Aste. Jup. Sat. Uran. Nep. 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 0 3 6 12 24 48 96 192 384 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --- --- 4 7 10 16 28 52 100 196 388 5.9 7.3 10 15.2 27.4 52 95.4 192 300 where each distance (line third) is the sum of 4 and a multiple of 3 by the series 0, 1, 2, 4, 8, etc., the true distances being given in the lower line. Boyle's law (Physics), an expression of the fact, that when an elastic fluid is subjected to compression, and kept at a constant temperature, the product of the pressure and volume is a constant quantity, i. e., the volume is inversely proportioned to the pressure; -- known also as Mariotte's law, and the law of Boyle and Mariotte. Brehon laws. See under Brehon. Canon law, the body of ecclesiastical law adopted in the Christian Church, certain portions of which (for example, the law of marriage as existing before the Council of Tent) were brought to America by the English colonists as part of the common law of the land. --Wharton. Civil law, a term used by writers to designate Roman law, with modifications thereof which have been made in the different countries into which that law has been introduced. The civil law, instead of the common law, prevails in the State of Louisiana. --Wharton. Commercial law. See Law merchant (below). Common law. See under Common. Criminal law, that branch of jurisprudence which relates to crimes. Ecclesiastical law. See under Ecclesiastical. Grimm's law (Philol.), a statement (propounded by the German philologist Jacob Grimm) of certain regular changes which the primitive Indo-European mute consonants, so-called (most plainly seen in Sanskrit and, with some changes, in Greek and Latin), have undergone in the Teutonic languages. Examples: Skr. bh[=a]t[.r], L. frater, E. brother, G. bruder; L. tres, E. three, G. drei, Skr. go, E. cow, G. kuh; Skr. dh[=a] to put, Gr. ti-qe`-nai, E. do, OHG, tuon, G. thun. See also lautverschiebung. Kepler's laws (Astron.), three important laws or expressions of the order of the planetary motions, discovered by John Kepler. They are these: (1) The orbit of a planet with respect to the sun is an ellipse, the sun being in one of the foci. (2) The areas swept over by a vector drawn from the sun to a planet are proportioned to the times of describing them. (3) The squares of the times of revolution of two planets are in the ratio of the cubes of their mean distances. Law binding, a plain style of leather binding, used for law books; -- called also law calf. Law book, a book containing, or treating of, laws. Law calf. See Law binding (above). Law day. (a) Formerly, a day of holding court, esp. a court-leet. (b) The day named in a mortgage for the payment of the money to secure which it was given. [U. S.] Law French, the dialect of Norman, which was used in judicial proceedings and law books in England from the days of William the Conqueror to the thirty-sixth year of Edward III. Law language, the language used in legal writings and forms. Law Latin. See under Latin. Law lords, peers in the British Parliament who have held high judicial office, or have been noted in the legal profession. Law merchant, or Commercial law, a system of rules by which trade and commerce are regulated; -- deduced from the custom of merchants, and regulated by judicial decisions, as also by enactments of legislatures. Law of Charles (Physics), the law that the volume of a given mass of gas increases or decreases, by a definite fraction of its value for a given rise or fall of temperature; -- sometimes less correctly styled {Gay Lussac's law}, or Dalton's law. Law of nations. See International law, under International. Law of nature. (a) A broad generalization expressive of the constant action, or effect, of natural conditions; as, death is a law of nature; self-defense is a law of nature. See Law, 4. (b) A term denoting the standard, or system, of morality deducible from a study of the nature and natural relations of human beings independent of supernatural revelation or of municipal and social usages. Law of the land, due process of law; the general law of the land. Laws of honor. See under Honor. Laws of motion (Physics), three laws defined by Sir Isaac Newton: (1) Every body perseveres in its state of rest or of moving uniformly in a straight line, except so far as it is made to change that state by external force. (2) Change of motion is proportional to the impressed force, and takes place in the direction in which the force is impressed. (3) Reaction is always equal and opposite to action, that is to say, the actions of two bodies upon each other are always equal and in opposite directions. Marine law, or Maritime law, the law of the sea; a branch of the law merchant relating to the affairs of the sea, such as seamen, ships, shipping, navigation, and the like. --Bouvier. Mariotte's law. See Boyle's law (above). Martial law.See under Martial. Military law, a branch of the general municipal law, consisting of rules ordained for the government of the military force of a state in peace and war, and administered in courts martial. --Kent. --Warren's Blackstone. Moral law, the law of duty as regards what is right and wrong in the sight of God; specifically, the ten commandments given by Moses. See Law, 2. Mosaic law, or Ceremonial law. (Script.) See Law, 3. Municipal law, or Positive law, a rule prescribed by the supreme power of a state, declaring some right, enforcing some duty, or prohibiting some act; -- distinguished from international law and constitutional law. See Law, 1. Periodic law. (Chem.) See under Periodic. Roman law, the system of principles and laws found in the codes and treatises of the lawmakers and jurists of ancient Rome, and incorporated more or less into the laws of the several European countries and colonies founded by them. See Civil law (above). Statute law, the law as stated in statutes or positive enactments of the legislative body. Sumptuary law. See under Sumptuary. To go to law, to seek a settlement of any matter by bringing it before the courts of law; to sue or prosecute some one. To take the law of, or To have the law of, to bring the law to bear upon; as, to take the law of one's neighbor. --Addison. Wager of law. See under Wager. Syn: Justice; equity. Usage: Law, Statute, Common law, Regulation, Edict, Decree. Law is generic, and, when used with reference to, or in connection with, the other words here considered, denotes whatever is commanded by one who has a right to require obedience. A statute is a particular law drawn out in form, and distinctly enacted and proclaimed. Common law is a rule of action founded on long usage and the decisions of courts of justice. A regulation is a limited and often, temporary law, intended to secure some particular end or object. An edict is a command or law issued by a sovereign, and is peculiar to a despotic government. A decree is a permanent order either of a court or of the executive government. See Justice. [1913 Webster] Loriot (gcide) Loriot \Lo"ri*ot\, n. [F., fr. OF. loriou, for l'oriol, oriol, l' being the article. The same word as oriole. See Oriole.] (Zool.) The golden oriole of Europe. See Oriole. [1913 Webster]