单词 | rule of law |
释义 | rule of lawn. 1. The authority and influence of law in society, esp. when viewed as a constraint on individual and institutional behaviour; (hence) the principle whereby all members of a society (including those in government) are considered equally subject to publicly disclosed legal codes and processes. Also as a count noun. ΘΚΠ society > law > jurisprudence > [noun] > theories or doctrines of the law rule of law?c1500 epiky1508 equity1528 renvoi1675 legal positivism1870 positivism1927 realism1930 legalitarianism1962 critical race theory1989 ?c1500 J. Blount tr. N. Upton Essent. Portions De Studio Militari (1931) 33 Lawes And constitutcions be ordeyned be cause the noysome Appetit of man maye be kepte vnder the Rewle of lawe [L. Juris regula] by the wiche mankinde ys dewly enformed to lyue honestly [etc.]. 1559 W. Bavand tr. J. Ferrarius Common Weale ii. ii. f. 24 A Magistrate should..kepe rekenyng of all mennes behauiours, and to be carefull, least thei despisyng the rule of lawe [L. legem amussi contempta], growe to a wilfulnes. a1628 F. Greville Alaham iv. iii, in Certaine Wks. (1633) 76 Beyond the rule of Law, but not of Loue, This child was borne. 1723 Weekly Jrnl. 20 July 2606/1 He consider'd how inexorable the Rule of Law was in the case of Blood. 1770 J. Hanway Advice from Farmer to his Daughter III. 438 Liberty, under the rule of law, is good. 1840 Mirror of Parl. (3rd Sess., 14th Parl.) 1 278/2 The question now at issue is nothing more nor less than whether the people of this country are to be under the rule of law, as established by statute and by the courts of justice. 1883 J. E. C. Welldon tr. Aristotle Politics iii. xvi. 154 The rule of law then [Gk. τὸν ἄρα νόμον ἄρχειν]..is preferable to the rule of an individual citizen. 1933 W. I. Jennings Law & Constit. 256 The ‘rule of law’ in this sense means that public authorities ought not to have large powers. 1959 Polit. Stud. 7 114 He [sc. Dicey] would not have admitted for one moment that a Rule of Law followed from the mere fact that the conduct of government had a legal basis. 1971 Engineering Apr. 54/1 Industry-wide negotiations, ending in a kind of rule-of-law. 1996 Counsel Mar. 22/2 This may prove a nice earner for the Treasury, but the rule of law is intended to protect citizens from the state, not just to punish criminals. 2. A valid legal proposition; a law. ΘΚΠ society > law > jurisprudence > [noun] > theories or doctrines of the law > specific concept in English law good consciencec1384 rule of lawa1538 society > law > rule of law > [noun] > validity or legal force > valid legal proposition rule of lawa1538 a1538 A. Abell Roit or Quheill of Tyme f. 83, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Reule I man keip the bundis of it eftir the tenour of my writ for it is ane rewll of law. 1591 J. N. Path-way to Penitence 12 The rule of law saith, the thing is not forgiuen excepte the thing wrongfully taken be restored. a1634 E. Coke 3rd Pt. Inst. Lawes Eng. (1644) vii. 53 In case of life the rule of law ought to be certain. a1670 J. Hacket Scrinia Reserata (1693) i. 82 In every Society of Men, there will be some Bashawes, who presume that there are many Rules of Law, from which they should be exempted. 1756 Gilbert's Law Evid. (new ed.) 16 The Rule of Law that requires the greatest Evidence that the Nature of the Thing is capable of. 1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. III. xxiii. 383 If a whole county is interested in the question to be tried, the trial by the rule of law must be in some adjoining county. 1818 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. (ed. 2) II. 268 It is a rule of law..that a remainder must vest, either during the continuance of the preceding estate, or at the very instant of its determination. 1861 H. S. Maine Anc. Law ii. 26 I..employ the expression ‘Legal Fiction’ to signify any assumption which conceals, or affects to conceal, the fact that a rule of law has undergone alteration. 1916 Northeastern Reporter 109 178/1 The repledge of the collateral for more than the plaintiff's indebtedness was a wrong both by force of general rules of law, and..by force of the express restrictions. 1969 Columbia Law Rev. 69 1168 It is clear that those rules of precedent which are binding as ‘rules of practice’ are also rules of law. 2003 New Statesman 7 Apr. (Suppl.) p. iv In terms of foreign policy we all have an enormous choice to make, and that is whether we move in the direction of international rules of law or simply follow the assertions of nation-state might. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.?c1500 |
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