At any rate, it gives the law in my house.

Public usage gives the law in these things.

You grant that there are such cases, in which the patient gives the law to the physician.

God gives the law.

The mass is nothing; the individual everything; and it is the individual, always, that rules the mass and gives the law.

Although he gives the Law Society credit for taking action, he warns that "swaths of the country have no trust in solicitors as a result".