in the name of the law

English

Prepositional phrase

in the name of the law

1. By the demand of a legal authority.
   • 1850, George Searle Phillips, The Life, Character and Genius of Ebenezer Elliot the Corn Law Rhymer, page 78:

     The following passage from his autobiography is interesting, as showing the impression which the "barbarous deeds done in the name of the law" made upon his mind, even in boyhood: […]

   • 1991 July, Francis A. Gilligan, Stephen D. Smith, “Criminal Law Division Notes”, in The Army Lawyer, page 52:

     Shouting "stop in the name of the law" is wasteful when a suspect obviously is fleeing the law.

   • 1996, Omer Bartov, Murder in Our Midst, page 69:

     At the same time, once things are done in the name of the law, it no longer matters what they are, for they are legal, and any further scrutiny of their nature is unnecessary—indeed, may be construed as subversive.

   • 2021, Micah Alpaugh, The French Revolution: A History in Documents:

     Those soliciting, expediting, or executing arbitrary orders ought to be punished; but every citizen called or seized in the name of the law ought to obey instantly: one becomes guilty by resisting.

Translations

Translations

• Dutch: in naam der wet
• Finnish: lain nimessä
• French: au nom de la loi
• Hungarian: a törvény nevében
• Italian: in nome della legge
• Polish: w imieniu prawa