law-way

English

Etymology

law +‎ -way; compare foodway.

Noun

law-way (plural law-ways)

1. A community's specific set of laws and legal practices.
   • 1941, K. N. Llewellyn, E. Adamson Hoebel, The Cheyenne Way: Conflict and Case Law in Primitive Jurisprudence‎^[1], University of Oklahoma Press, page 38:

     Finally, and in respect of the juristic level of the net law-way of a culture, the work of the police courts is as vital to a people as the “constitutional decisions” of the Highest Nine—not more vital, but as vital—in Cheyenne as in the United States.