0 a situation in which the laws of a country are being obeyed, especially when the police or army are used to make certain of this:
1 a situation in which laws are obeyed, and people behave in an organized and peaceful way:
Taxing consumption of alcohol is an issue of law and order.
It ranges from 10 (strong law and order tradition) to 1 (weak law and order tradition).
In a lead article, its editor predicted that the new light system would not improve law and order.
They were all reduced to simple law and order conflicts, in which sides were taken according to political persuasion.
Yet it adopted the ' ' new unionism ' ' of bringing law and order into the industry by promoting employerco-operation.
Then the role of religion, education and law and order are discussed as qualities epitomizing respectability.
The political authority, headed by prefect and subprefect, was charged with maintaining law and order and representing the state in the province.
It has primary responsibility for maintenance of law and order.
In other words, although the strict style always carried symbolic associations of law and order, this law had different implications at different times.
