(law) a legal proceeding in which the appellant resorts to a higher court for the purpose of obtaining a review of a lower court decision and a reversal of the lower court's judgment or the granting of a new trial | the learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system |
attractiveness that interests or pleases or stimulates | a rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society |
earnest or urgent request | a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature |
request for a sum of money | 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 |