It may also refer to a village organized under a particular form of law.

John Milton called for "great actions, above the form of law and custom".

Thus, Hitler could now rule under a form of legal martial law.

Murdered, my father said, by the Council, under the form of law.

A constitution is a particular form of organic law for a sovereign state.

By 2008, all 50 states had a form of safe-haven law.

During the war, these soldiers tried to impose a form of martial law.

They were to give way to a more primitive form of law.

Many people rely on some form of natural law without necessarily knowing it.

Let the proper authorities do that, and in due form of law.