the act of conferring legality or sanction or formal warrant | the learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system |
the power or right to give orders or make decisions | a rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society |
official permission or approval | a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature |
a document giving an official instruction or command | 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 |