law-ways

Noun

law-ways pl (normally plural, singular law-way)

1. (plural, plural-normally) A community's specific set of laws and legal practices.
   • We have aimed at the development of a social science instrument for the recording and interpretation of law-ways among primitive peoples; the Cheyennes and their Way provide the subject material.1941, K. N. Llewellyn, E. Adamson Hoebel, The Cheyenne Way: Conflict and Case Law in Primitive Jurisprudence, University of Oklahoma Press, page 38
   • Indigenous Peoples' law-ways are similar throughout Australia and the world. We share a belief in the creation, a time in which the law itself was created.1997, Irene Watson, “Indigenous Peoples' Law-Ways: Survival Against the Colonial State”, in Australian Feminist Law Journal, volume 8, number 1, →DOI, page 45