lawkeeping

Noun

lawkeeping (uncountable)

1. The act of preserving the law.
   • “Secundra Bagh” operates as a historical trope in just this still-vital dialectical sense: for a frozen instant that it marks as such (recall the twitch of diachrony registered in the moving horse), this image puts into contact two apparently exclusive narratives—the stories of imperial lawkeeping...2016, Nathan K. Hensley, “[Introduction: Reading Endless War] Unburial Grounds”, in Forms of Empire: The Poetics of Victorian Sovereignty, Oxford, Oxon: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 30
   • Marasi is always talking about things like that, he thought. How the lawkeeping of the future will be about statistics, not shotguns. He tried to imagine a world where murders were prevented by careful civic planning, and found himself unable to see it. People would always kill.2016, Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Bands of Mourning, New York, N.Y.: Tor, →ISBN, page 183