Usually means: Establish and enforce strict rules.
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  1. lay down_the_law: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. lay down_the_law: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. lay down_the_law: Collins English Dictionary
  4. lay down_the_law: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. lay down_the_law: Wiktionary
  6. lay down_the_law: Dictionary.com
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  1. lay down_the_law: Legal dictionary

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  1. lay down_the_law: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (lay down the law)

verb:  To promulgate law.
verb:  (law, dated) To present the law that applies to a given case.
verb:  (idiomatic) To authoritatively or dogmatically assert what is permitted or not permitted.

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