counterlaw

English

Etymology

From counter- +‎ law.

Noun

counterlaw (plural counterlaws)

1. A law that counteracts or opposes another law.
   • 1997, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Novel Gazing: Queer Readings in Fiction, page 79:

     Though one of the great laws of the Proustian universe is the incompatibility of knowledge and desire, one of its less well-known, yet not less powerful, counterlaws, is the interdependency of knowledge and desire, best illustrated, as we shall see, by the case of snobbery.