Possible Clues:

• Make laws
• Enact laws
• Lay down the law
• Member is slow to pass laws
• My foot's gone to sleep - maybe it's dead - just to make it lawful
• Stage after which I propose to make laws
• Make a ruling that the member is dead
• That'll make the limb legally behind time
• An in-law may make it, even with a limb that's dead
• Lay down rules where supporter is delayed