1. Briefly giving the gist of something
   "a short and compendious book"
   - compact, succinct, summary

See also: compendium, concise

• law of equivalent proportions
• law of gravitation
• law of independent assortment
• law of large numbers
• law of mass action
• Law of Moses
• law of motion
• law of multiple proportions
• law of nations
• law of nature
• law of parsimony
• law of partial pressures
• law of proximity
• law of reciprocal proportions
• law of segregation
• law of similarity
• law of the land
• law of thermodynamics
• law of volumes
• law offender
• law officer
• law practice
• law school
• law student
• law-abiding