the act of accepting with approval; favorable reception | the learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system |
the appropriation (of ideas or words etc) from another source | a rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society |
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) | 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 |