Law and Right

Law

Law noun - A rule of conduct or action laid down by a governing authority and especially a legislature.

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Right and law are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Right" instead a noun "Law".

Nearby Words: lawful, lawless, laws, lawfulness, lawfully

Right noun - Something to which one has a just claim.

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Law and right are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Law" instead a noun "Right".

Nearby Words: righteous, rightful, righted, rightly, righting

human	human law	human right
good	good law	good right
special	special law	special right
single	single law	single right
Other adjectives: divine, simple, real, evil, little, ancient, constitutional, traditional, general, fundamental, basic, last.

The protagonist, Yuri Lowell, believes that if a law prohibits doing what's right, said law should be ignored.

Source: Screw The Rules Im Doing Whats Right / Video Games
This is one of the few law tropes Law & Order gets right every time they invoke it.

Source: Artistic License Law
Also when Ross' new mother-in-law flirts with him right in front of her husband, who name drops this trope, word-for-word.

Source: I'm Standing Right Here

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