a duty that you are assigned to perform (especially in the armed forces) | the learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system |
the act of putting a person into a non-elective position | a rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society |
the act of distributing something to designated places or persons | a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature |
an undertaking that you have been assigned to do (as by an instructor) | the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do |
the instrument by which a claim or right or interest or property is transferred from one person to another | legal document setting forth rules governing a particular kind of activity |
(law) a transfer of property by deed of conveyance | the collection of rules imposed by authority |
| the force of policemen and officers |