/teɪk ðə lɔ ˈɪntu jʊr oʊn hændz/ – Phrase
Definition: Tự xử lý vấn đề mà không tuân theo luật pháp.
A more thorough explanation: to punish someone for something according to your own ideas of justice rather than leaving the matter to the police or other authority, especially when done in an illegal or violent way
Example: The judge told the defendant: “You must not take the law into your own hands.”
Related words:
- (to) testify in one’s own behalf
- (to) testify in one’s own right
- (to) serve as one’s own counsel
- (to) claim under one’s own right
- (to) answer for one’s own action
- (to) stand one’s own trial
- (to) take the stand in one’s own defence
- amendment on court’s own motion
- (to) conduct one’s own defence
- release in one’s own custody