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Against your better judgment
If you do something against your better judgment, you do it even though you do not think you should. You can also do something against someone else's better judgment.
Ambulance chaser
Barrack-room lawyer
Before the ink is dry
Bring someone to book
If somebody is brought to book, they are punished or made to account for something they have done wrong.
Case by case
If things are done case by case, each situation or issue is handled separately on its own merits and demerits.
Exception that proves the rule
Eye for an eye
Jersey justice
(UK) Jersey justice is very severe justice.
Judge, jury and executioner
Jury's out
Justice is blind
Justice is blind means that justice is impartial and objective.
Law of unintended consequences
Events and/or actions that result from the implementation of a law or rule that the makers of the law did not expect.
Law unto yourself
Lay down the law
Letter of the law
Moot point
If something's a moot point, there's some disagreement about it: a debatable point. In the U.S., this expression usually means that there is no point in debating something, because it just doesn't matter. An example: If you are arguing over whether to go the beach or to the park, but you find out the car won't start and you can't go anywhere, then the destination is said to be a moot point.
Read someone the riot act
Signed, sealed and delivered
If something's signed, sealed and delivered, it has been done correctly, following all the necessary procedures.
Sod's law
Spirit of the law
Word of the law
The word of the law means that the law is interpreted in an absolutely literal way which goes against the ideas that the lawmakers had wished to implement.

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