Laws take bent essentially in stir (6)
I believe the answer is:
awaken
'stir' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'laws take bent essentially in' is the wordplay.
'laws take' becomes 'wake' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should believe this answer much more).
'bent' becomes 'hang' (synonyms).
'essentially' means to look at the middle letters.
'in' is an insertion indicator.
The middle letters of 'hang' are 'an'.
'wake' going into 'an' is 'AWAKEN'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for awaken that I've seen before include "Rouse (a feeling)" , "Call forth" , "Cause to remember" , "Arouse" , "Emerge from sleep" .)