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club-law
1. The use of the club to enforce obedience; physical force as contrasted with argument; law or rule of the physically stronger.
[1597–8in Macray Parnassus Pref. 6 He had already been satirized in Club-Law, a play acted at Clare Hall in 1597–8.] 1612T. Taylor Comm. Titus i. 7 (1619) 146 The castle is not wonne by fists or club-law. 1675J. Smith Chr. Relig. Appeal ii. 15 The Herculean Argument of Club-Law [We may because we can]. 1741Warburton Div. Legat. II. 247 The first bringing in of Club-Law into Religion. 1829C. Welch Wesl. Polity 9 Argumenta ad baculum, vulgarly termed club-law. 1876Bancroft Hist. U.S. II. xxiv. 114 Club-law, he argued with the minister, may make hypocrites, it can never make converts.
2. The body of rules by which a club is regulated.
3. Cards. A rule sometimes adopted in the game of loo: see quot.
1863G. F. Pardon Hoyle's Games Mod. 157 Sometimes the rule of club-law is introduced [at three card loo], when all must play when a club happens to be turned up [for trumps]. 1875Cavendish Round Games 4.
club-lawyer, one who applies physical force.
a1670Hacket Abp. Williams ii. (1692) 191 These club-lawyers filled the whole land with blood and burning. |