law vs criminal maintenance

law and criminal maintenance both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
law	Yes	No	No	No
criminal maintenance	Yes	No	No	No

law (noun)	criminal maintenance (noun)
the learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system	the unauthorized interference in a legal action by a person having no interest in it (as by helping one party with money or otherwise to continue the action) so as to obstruct justice or promote unnecessary litigation or unsettle the peace of the community
a rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society
a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature
the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do
legal document setting forth rules governing a particular kind of activity
the collection of rules imposed by authority
the force of policemen and officers