The phrase "administering a law" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where one is discussing the enforcement or implementation of legal statutes or regulations.
Example: "The government is responsible for administering a law that protects the environment."
Alternatives: "enforcing a law" or "implementing a law".
Their courts, set up by the merchants themselves at trade fairs or in cities, administered a law that was uniform throughout Europe, regardless of differences in national laws and languages.
A real democracy, says Mr Zakaria, also needs the habit of free speech, impartial judges who administer a law accepted by all, independent political parties, an assumption that elections will take place at regular intervals, and strict obedience to the rules between elections.
Both the appeals court and the court whose opinion it overturned today were created solely to administer a 1978 law allowing the government to conduct intelligence wiretaps inside the United States.
Representative Martin Frost, a Democrat, did not violate Texas campaign finance laws in administering a political action committee he created to aid state Democratic candidates, a state prosecutor said.
He proposed that the courts be staffed with Egyptian and foreign judges, who would administer a body of law based on French law and compiled by an international commission.
Five years later it ruled that Congress could not require state officials to help administer a federal gun control law by performing background checks of prospective gun buyers.
Reginald Dyer, a British officer administering martial law, ordered 50 soldiers to open fire on a crowd of about 10,000 unarmed Indians protesting a postwar extension of World War I detention laws.
Generally speaking, a trustee administers a trust, which Black's Law Dictionary defines as a property interest held by the trustee at another's request (the settlor) for a third party's benefit (beneficiary) according to the trust's terms or those of any relevant will if the trust is created in that document.
A supreme court administering English law began to exercise original jurisdiction over the city as far as the Maratha Ditch (now Acharya Prafulla Chandra and Jagadish Chandra Bose roads).
The British High Commissioner in Salisbury, J B Johnston, had few doubts about how Beadle would react to a such an act, writing that he was "quite certain that no personal considerations would deflect him for a moment from administering the law with absolute integrity".
