"devise a law" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It means to create or come up with a law. Example: The government has tasked a commission to devise a law that will protect the rights of workers in the country.
As a third-party candidate, Wallace was destined to win the Deep South in the fall, but the Nixon team devised a "law and order" theme ― a vow to restore order in the cities of the North ― that would appeal to the same voters and bring them into the Republican camp.
State Senator Mark Leno, a Democrat from San Francisco, is now working with Attorney General Harris to devise a state law that would establish more uniform and stringent rules for medical marijuana.
Last week, administration officials said there was a growing recognition in the administration that some form of Kurdish autonomy was inevitable, if only because it was impractical to devise a new law to change the status quo in the next two months, the deadline for writing a new interim constitution for Iraq.
By comparison, in Illinois, which has worked to devise a more effective law after a series of rampage shootings, 3,699 people who applied for a gun card -- the first step in buying a handgun there -- were turned down from 1996 to 1998 when records showed they were either voluntarily or involuntarily committed to a mental hospital in the previous five years, an Illinois police official said.
It might be said that we first ought to find out whether the boundary conditions are lawlike, and then devise a theory of law appropriate to the answer.
King Abdullah recently urged parliamentarians to devise a political parties' law and amend a controversial election bill, which Islamist and other opposition claim has provided pro-monarchy landslide victories and produced weak parliaments.
Advocates of the law devised a plan to sell legislators' office furniture to raise money, notably the love seat of Speaker Thomas M. Finneran, a staunch opponent of the law, as well as desks, sofas and other furnishings of Salvatore F. DiMasi, the House majority leader, and Mr. Wagner, who was the House elections laws chairman until this year.
The House of Representatives voted tonight to provide $1.3 billion in economic and military aid to Afghanistan after demanding that President Bush devise a strategy to establish law and order there.
Once he had that under his belt, he could devise a strategy which targeted law enforcement on the core of robbers, helped the homeless people through social services, alerted the whole community through a publicity campaign, and finally cut subway crime by 80%.
