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at law
[at law]
adverb
(of legal proceedings or remedies) under the law, sometimes according to the common law or codified law, rather than to what is fair in a particular case; by law.
The will, now lost, would have benefited the whole community, but at law the next of kin is the sole heir.
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of at law1
Example Sentences
As hundreds have protested peacefully for days, some have taken the opportunity to burglarize businesses or hurl things at law enforcement while hidden within the crowd.
“These attacks were aimed not just at law enforcement, but at American culture and society itself,” she said.
One Paramount man who allegedly threw rocks at law enforcement vehicles and injured an officer is now on the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Most Wanted list.
The protests unravelled into looting, self-driving cars being torched, rocks thrown at law enforcement and a major freeway blocked by demonstrators.
Demonstrators blocked the 101 Freeway, set self-driving cars ablaze and hurled incendiary devices — and, in some cases, chunks of concrete — at law enforcement officers.
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