in the name of the law en · ADP
Meanings
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By the demand of a legal authority.
Shouting "stop in the name of the law" is wasteful when a suspect obviously is fleeing the law.
1991 July, Francis A. Gilligan, Stephen D. Smith, “Criminal Law Division Notes”, in The Army Lawyer, page 52:Those soliciting, expediting, or executing arbitrary orders ought to be punished; but every citizen called or seized in the name of the law ought to obey instantly: one becomes guilty by resisting.
2021, Micah Alpaugh, The French Revolution: A History in Documents:The following passage from his autobiography is interesting, as showing the impression which the "barbarous deeds done in the name of the law" made upon his mind, even in boyhood: […]
1850, George Searle Phillips, The Life, Character and Genius of Ebenezer Elliot the Corn Law Rhymer, page 78:At the same time, once things are done in the name of the law, it no longer matters what they are, for they are legal, and any further scrutiny of their nature is unnecessary—indeed, may be construed as subversive.
1996, Omer Bartov, Murder in Our Midst, page 69:
Translations (7)
fi lain nimessä (Translations) · ro în numele legii (Translations) · nl in naam der wet (Translations) · pl w imieniu prawa (Translations) · it in nome della legge (Translations) · hu a törvény nevében (Translations) · fr au nom de la loi (Translations)