Term: law of the land: a phrase used in the Magna Carta to refer to the then established law of the kingdom (as distinct from Roman or civil law); today it refers to fundamental principles of justice commensurate with due process
Candidate hypernym: law: the collection of rules imposed by authority → 1
Candidate hypernym: purgative: a purging medicine; stimulates evacuation of the bowels → 0
Candidate hypernym: barrack: a building or group of buildings used to house military personnel → 0
Candidate hypernym: estrone: a naturally occurring weak estrogenic hormone secreted by the mammalian ovary; synthesized (trade name Estronol) and used to treat estrogen deficiency → 0
Candidate hypernym: bullfighting: the activity at a bullfight → 0
Candidate hypernym: regular tetrahedron: a tetrahedron with four equilateral triangular faces → 0
Candidate hypernym: bronze age: (classical mythology) the third age of the world, marked by war and violence → 0
Candidate hypernym: dilator: a drug that causes dilation → 0
Candidate hypernym: slickness: a slippery smoothness → 0
Candidate hypernym: linguistic relation: a relation between linguistic forms or constituents → 0
Candidate hypernym: order myxobacteria: an order of higher bacteria → 0