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Definition: Unwritten Law |
Unwritten LawNoun1. Law based on customary behavior. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Movie/TV Titles | The Unwritten Law (1932) | |
Song Titles | Seein' Red (performing artist: Unwritten Law) | |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | This unwritten law applies to every industry and will help to facilitate the business challenges. (references) | |
Political Economy | Swaziland | The King rules according to unwritten law and custom, in conjunction with a partially elected parliament and an accompanying structure of published laws and implementing agencies. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
Expression using "unwritten law": the unwritten law. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
unwritten law | 596 |
unwritten law mp3 | 6 |
unwritten law music | 3 |
cailin unwritten law | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "unwritten law"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | обичайно право (common law), неписан закон (consuetude, prescription). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 不成文法 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | ongeschreven recht. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | tapaoikeus (common law, customary law), kirjoittamaton oikeus. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | droit non écrit. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | ungeschriebenes Recht, ungeschriebenes gesetz. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | άγραφο δίκαιο. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | szokásjog (Common law, consuetude, custom, customary law), íratlan törvény. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 不文法 (common law), 不文律 (common law, unwritten rule). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ふぶ"ぽう (common law), ふぶ"ほう (common law), ふぶ"りつ (common law, unwritten rule). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ittenunwray awlay lei baseada nos costumes. (various references) obiceiul pãmântului (common law, the unwritten law). (various references) неписаный закон (prescription). (various references) ley no escrita, derecho no escrito. (various references) oskriven lag (etiquette). (various references) yazısız hukuk, töreler (customs, mores), gelenekler (customs, mores). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-i-l-n-n-r-t-t-u-w-w" | |
-3 letters: unwritten. | |
-4 letters: auntlier, internal, intranet, nutrient, retinula, rutilant, tenurial, trawlnet, unlearnt. | |
-5 letters: alunite, aneurin, annulet, entrain, entrant, intrant, intreat, iterant, lantern, latrine, lauwine, nattier, neutral, nitrate, nuttier, ratline, reliant, retinal, ruinate, taunter, taurine, tawnier, tertial, tertian, tinware, titular, trenail, trunnel, tutelar, unlearn, untwine, uralite, uranite, urinate, written. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)55 6E 77 72 69 74 74 65 6E 4C 61 77 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010101 01101110 01110111 01110010 01101001 01110100 01110100 01100101 01101110 00100000 01001100 01100001 01110111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)U n w r i t t e n   L a w |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0055 006E 0077 0072 0069 0074 0074 0065 006E 004C 0061 0077 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5580898475868671802466789 |
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