Usually means: Firmly establishing and enforcing rules.
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Definitions from Wikipedia (Laying Down the Law)

noun:  Trial by Jury, or Laying Down the Law as it is commonly known, is an oil-on-canvas painting from 1840 by the English painter Sir Edwin Landseer, which satirises the legal profession.


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