go to law

idiom

British
: to ask a court of law to settle a dispute

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Brandon Belmonte was not the first person to go to law enforcement with the suspicion that Whitehead and Adams were engaged in corruption. Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 14 Jan. 2023 Relocating to different cities while on different academic tracks—me to DC and graduate school, her to Cambridge to go to law school—was not helping. People Staff, Peoplemag, 24 Oct. 2022 Knowing how isolating that can be, older Black women, many of whom were the first in their families to go to law school, described an instinctive urge to mentor younger Black women. New York Times, 29 Jan. 2022 Taylor also has a younger sister, Portia, a 33-year-old mom of two who recently decided to go to law school, so both sisters are pursuing big dreams together. al, 19 Aug. 2021 See All Example Sentences for go to law

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“Go to law.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/go%20to%20law. Accessed 8 Sep. 2025.

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