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break a law
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   Also found in: Legal 0.04 sec.
break a law and break the law
to fail to obey a law; to act contrary to a law. Lisa broke the law when she drove the wrong way on a one-way street. If you never break the law, you will never get arrested.
See also: break, law


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Whanau is, or ought to be, an immense reservoir of concern and sense of group obligation and the central place for dealing with whanau members who break the law.
If you break the law then you must pay the penalty.
The ADF has in the past shown it has a tendency to stretch the truth, so it's hard to know if its claims of dozens of ministers chomping at the bit to break the law is true.
 
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