the act of accepting with approval; favorable reception | the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do |
the appropriation (of ideas or words etc) from another source | the collection of rules imposed by authority |
a legal proceeding that creates a parent-child relation between persons not related by blood; the adopted child is entitled to all privileges belonging to a natural child of the adoptive parents (including the right to inherit) | |