| 单词 | to call unto the law |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto call (a person) unto the law a. The action of the courts of law, as a means of procuring redress of grievances or enforcing claims; judicial remedy. Frequent in phrases to go to (†the) law, to have or take the law of or on (a person), †to call (a person) unto the law, †to draw into laws. Hence occasionally used = recourse to the courts, litigation. †the day of law: the day of trial. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > [noun] jurisdictiona1300 justicec1325 justificationa1419 justicinga1460 law?a1513 judicature1530 judicatorya1583 justice business1649 justicement1685 the Hall1738 justice system1837 society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > action of courts in claims or grievances > [noun] law?a1513 society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > action of courts in claims or grievances > go to law or litigate [verb (intransitive)] pursue1389 suea1422 pleada1425 proceed1425 pleac1450 to wage one's (or the) law1455 to go to (the) law?a1513 to put at ——1534 to prosecute the law against (also upon)1535 law?a1550 to follow a suit1571 prosecute1611 to go to suit1690 litigate1726 society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > action of courts in claims or grievances > carry on or institute (an action) [verb (transitive)] > sue or institute action against pleada1325 implead1387 follow1389 pursue1454 process1493 to put in suit1495 to call (a person) unto the law?a1513 sue1526 suit1560 prosecute1579 to fetch a person over the hips1587 trounce1638 law1647 prosecute1656 action1734 to fetch law of1832 court1847 chicane1865 actionize1871 run1891 society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > trying or hearing of cause > [noun] > day of trial the day of law?a1513 a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 39 Sum bydand the law layis land in wed. 1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. xii. 11 That she and her sonne shulde take ryght and lawe on them, accordyng to theyr desertis. a1525 (c1448) R. Holland Bk. Howlat l. 224 in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1925) II. 101 The crovss capone..Was officiale..yat ye law leidis In caussis consistoriale. 1526 Bible (Tyndale) 1 Cor. vi. 1 Howe dare one of you..goo to lawe vnder the wicked? 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Prov. xxv. B Be not haistie to go to the lawe. 1560 J. Heywood Fourth Hundred Epygrams lxxxviii. sig. Bviii You beyng a pleader at lawe..Pray hir to let fall thaction at lawe now. 1565 T. Randolph in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1824) 1st Ser. II. 198 The Daye of Lawe agaynste the iiii Bourgois men of thys towne is lyke to holde. ?1573 L. Lloyd Pilgrimage of Princes f. 156 Beyng striken and spurned by the same man, Socrates was counsailed to call the same vnto the Lawe before the Judges. a1599 E. Spenser View State Ireland 23 in J. Ware Two Hist. Ireland (1633) So as it was not..possible to draw him into Law..it [is] hard for every trifling debt..to be driven to Law. a1640 T. Risdon Chorogr. Surv. Devon (1811) (modernized text) §47 54 There was a long suit in law. 1677 A. Yarranton England's Improvem. 24 For ten years there will be more Law than ever to clear up Titles. 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 122. ¶4 A Fellow famous for taking the Law of every Body. 1780 Newgate Cal. V. 27 Surely no man in his senses would deliberately embark in law. 1782 H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Painting (ed. 3) V. 234 Dubosc, with whom he broke and went to law. 1796 T. Paine Writ. (1895) III. 239 A sharper..may find a way..to cheat some other party, without that party being able, as the phrase is, to take the law of him. 1800 M. Edgeworth Castle Rackrent Gloss. p. xxxiv ‘I'll have the law of you, so I will!’—is the saying of an Englishman who expects justice. 1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas I. i. v. 55 The hangers-on of the law. 1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) vi. 52 There's a hackney-coachman down stairs..vowing he'll have the law of you. 1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) vii. 61 ‘She was as bad as he,’ said Tinker. ‘She took the law of every one of her tradesmen.’ 1891 E. Kinglake Austral. at Home 35 The very name of ‘Law’ is a bogie that frightens a man out of his wits. < as lemmas |
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