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Meaning of "the unwritten law" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF THE UNWRITTEN LAW

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WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE THE UNWRITTEN LAW

the Twins
the twist
the Two Sicilies
the Tynwald
the unco guid
the underground
the undersigned
the Union
the Unknowable
the unseelie
the upper hand
the upper regions
the usual
the vag
the vapours
the varletry
the vast
the veil
the Veneti
the vernacular

WORDS THAT END LIKE THE UNWRITTEN LAW

administrative law
association law
canon law
case law
common law
court of law
criminal law
crown law
employment law
go to law
international law
maritime law
matter of law
question of law
Roman law
rule of law
skeleton law
Stefan-Boltzmann law
the law
unwritten law

Synonyms and antonyms of the unwritten law in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «the unwritten law» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF THE UNWRITTEN LAW

Find out the translation of the unwritten law to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of the unwritten law from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «the unwritten law» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

不成文的定律
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

la ley no escrita
570 millions of speakers

English

the unwritten law
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

अलिखित कानून
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

قانون غير مكتوب
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

неписаный закон
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

a lei não escrita
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অলিখিত আইন
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

la loi non écrite
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Undang yang tidak tertulis
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

das ungeschriebene Gesetz
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

不文法
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

불문율
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Hukum sing ora ditulis
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

luật bất thành văn
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

எழுதப்படாத சட்டம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अलिखित कायदा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Yazılı olmayan kanun
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

la legge non scritta
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

niepisane prawo
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

неписаний закон
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

legea nescrisă
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ο άγραφος νόμος
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Die ongeskrewe wet
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

den oskrivna lagen
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

den uskrevne loven
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of the unwritten law

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «THE UNWRITTEN LAW»

The term «the unwritten law» is quite widely used and occupies the 41.538 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «THE UNWRITTEN LAW» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «the unwritten law» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «the unwritten law» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about the unwritten law

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «THE UNWRITTEN LAW»

Discover the use of the unwritten law in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to the unwritten law and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Unwritten Law : Criminal Justice in Victorian Kent: ...
How can the rights of the accused be reconciled with those of victims--especially children? Can and should the courts interfere with the traditions of family and community?
Birmingham Carolyn A. Conley Assistant Professor of History University of Alabama, 1991
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The Unwritten Law
Danny Cantrell. "But all of the prospective jurors are from your home county of Wayne, sir," Raney said. "I honestly don't think that will have any bearing on the outcome one way or the other," Sandusky answered. "Judge Tartar merely wants to ...
Danny Cantrell, 2013
3
Man and Wife in America: A History
This was the unwritten law. That is, there was a particular practice called "the unwritten law" within the general domain of the criminal law (a practice that survived into the 1970s as a written unwritten law in the statute books of a few American ...
Hendrik Hartog, 2009
4
Murdering Holiness: The Trials of Franz Creffield and George ...
8 Justifiable Homicide and the Unwritten Law SEATTLE DEBATES THE MITCHELL CASE N THE IMMEDIATE AFTERMATH of Creffield's death Seattle was Iwitness to an impassioned debate about whether the homicide was justified. Mitchell ...
Jim Phillips, Rosemary Gartner, 2011
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The Letter to the Romans
THE UNWRITTEN LAW Romans 2:12-16 As many as sinned without the law shall also perish without the law; and as many as sinned in the law shall be judged by the law; for it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous in the sight of God, ...
William Barclay, 1955
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Institutional Economics. Vol. II: Its Place in Political Economy
In general it is precedents that are described as the "unwritten law," while statutes , by-laws, corporation charters are the "written" law. But the written law is only words. The "unwritten" law is written in the decisions of disputes which construe the ...
John Rogers Commons
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First in Violence, Deepest in Dirt: Homicide in Chicago, ...
and abandoned them.81 Twenty-five-year-old Pauline Plotka, for ex- ample, successfully invoked the unwritten law and gained an acquittal in 1918 after she shot and killed a young physician who promised to marry her, dishonored her, and ...
Jeffrey S Adler, 2009
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Vengeance is Mine: The Scandalous Love Triangle that ...
The unwritten law was constructed on, and nourished by, such stereotypes and beliefs. In the presence of juries, defense attorneys carefully avoided speaking the words “the unwritten law,” typically referring to it euphemistically by some code ...
Bill Neal, 2011
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Parley P. Pratt: The Apostle Paul of Mormonism
Hendrik Hartog, “Lawyering, Husbands' Rights, and 'the Unwritten Law' in Nineteenth-Century America,” Journal ofAmerican History 84, 1 (1997): 67–96; Robert M. Ireland, “Insanity and the Unwritten Law,” American Journal ofLegal History ...
Terryl L. Givens, Matthew J. Grow, 2011
10
Outlines of the Philosophy of Right
... but give expression to the unwritten law; and yet they are just as much exempt from its authority, because they are themselves repositories of the unwritten law and so have the right Civil Society 199.
G. W. F. Hegel, 2008

2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «THE UNWRITTEN LAW»

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10 Unwritten Laws of Web Etiquette
It's due time he and the rest of Webville take note of the unwritten laws of web etiquette. Here's a list of a handful of taboos to avoid in order to ensure your ... «TIME, Jul 12»
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You Must Obey: The Unwritten Laws of Technology
Let's start with Nerve Central--the computer. Law 1: For every fix that a Windows Update patches, the update will break two more things on your PC. --Darren ... «PC World, Aug 09»

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