any entity that produces an effect or is responsible for events or results | the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do |
a comprehensive term for any proceeding in a court of law whereby an individual seeks a legal remedy | the collection of rules imposed by authority |
a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end | |
a justification for something existing or happening | |
events that provide the generative force that is the origin of something | |