"set the law" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is often used when referring to defining and enacting legislation, for example: "The government must set the law to ensure everyone is treated equally."
It's good she set the law aside.
But, in such a matter, it is not for lawyers to set the law rolling.
"You set the law and we will work within it," added Sawers.
You mean to say that suspicions haven't abounded with abandon since the whiskered gentleman seated to my right last night set the law of the playoff lane the way O'Neal does now?
"Our training teaches us how to put up cases, how to find evidence, how to set the law in motion, but no police academy can prepare you for this," said S. Badarinath, an inspector at the Cubbon Park police station in downtown Bangalore.
Their arguments echo those of Vera Baird, the former solicitor general, who last week told Radio 4's Today programme that the events of the case had set the law back decades when it comes to treatment of rape complainants' sexual history.
"We set the laws that they're supposed to follow.
The Kuna Yala communities — a semi-autonomous region of Panama — are ruled by sahilas, regional chiefs who serve four-year terms and set the laws.
It enshrines the equal right to life of the mother and her unborn child, and enables parliament to set the laws.
It set the laws of Hammurabi". He was referring to the first ruler of Babylon, which was built in what is now modern-day Iraq.
Setting the law in its wider social historical context it traces marriage from its formation through to its breakdown.
