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.
A sudden and unexplained death evidently threatened law and order, but it might also be expected to generate revenue.
The threat to law and order and established custom appeared to have been seen off by a coalition of indigenous office-holders and the colonial state.
Enforcing local copyright was a low priority for a government struggling to maintain basic law and order.
The national government operated according to the juridical paradigm of due process that saw the purge as a matter of law and order.
Consequently, the prescription is education and political mobilisation of ratepayers, combined with the restoration of law and order.
Such industrial action often threatened the entire law and order machineries in the mill towns.
The contents of the average week's law and order news would often have taken the reader in a number of directions.
In other words, although the strict style always carried symbolic associations of law and order, this law had different implications at different times.
