it is used a lot, but with slightly different meaning

送交者: eng 于 2007-02-11, 22:41:43:

回答: I believe "above the law" is an idiom. 由 fuzzify 于 2007-02-11, 22:36:09:

see my above post.

in the example i gave, it says, it could be X, as required by the law, or Y, which is illegal. So "required by the law" is used to mean "legal". there's not much implication here.

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I think you are right in that protected by law = protected, by law. - fuzzify (192 bytes) 2007-02-11, 23:34:18 (125545)

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