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a. With defining word, indicating some one of the branches into which law, as an object of study or exposition, may be divided, according to the matter with which it is concerned, as commercial law, ecclesiastical law, etc., the law of banking, law of evidence, etc.; or according to the source from which it is derived, as statute law, customary law, case law (see case n.¹), etc. See also canon law n. at canon n.¹ 1b, civil law n., common law n. and adj., martial law n.