Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
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case law | Yes | No | No | No |
law | Yes | No | No | No |
case law (noun) | law (noun) |
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(civil law) a law established by following earlier judicial decisions | the learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system |
a system of jurisprudence based on judicial precedents rather than statutory laws | a rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society |
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 |