the most important or interesting work or activity in a specific area or field | the learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system |
a judicial proceeding brought by one party against another; one party prosecutes another for a wrong done or for protection of a right or for prevention of a wrong | a rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society |
something done (usually as opposed to something said) | a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature |
a military engagement | the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do |
an act by a government body or supranational organization | legal document setting forth rules governing a particular kind of activity |
the operating part that transmits power to a mechanism | the collection of rules imposed by authority |
In firearms terminology, the mechanism that handles the ammunition (loads, locks, fires, and extracts the cartridges). | the force of policemen and officers |
the trait of being active and energetic and forceful | |
the series of events that form a plot | |
a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings) | |
the state of being active | |