To abide by the law means to follow and obey the law.
Assuming you meant the question to read as you wrote it. Doctors are not punished for abiding laws. If you meant breaking rather than abiding then, I believe that is determined in detail on a case by case manner in a court of law.
When the dude said "The Dude abides.", he meant that he (Himself) will wait patiently.
Earth Abides was created in 1949.
"God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him" (1 Jn 4:16).
Earth Abides has 373 pages.
Contemporary law means the present and prevailing law
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There is, was and will always be only one dude. And he abides.
abides by the vowels taken at ordination
When "The Dude" in The Big Lebowski says the famous line "the dude abides" he just means that he will endure, he lives on almost as if it was a state of being.
The cast of In the Eye Abides the Heart - 2006 includes: Lemuel Sola as Kid Alejandra Yazky as Woman
A conservative Jew describes a person of Jewish faith who abides by some requirements of Mosaic law but adapts others for modern circumstances. They're flexible in some sense.