any entity that produces an effect or is responsible for events or results | the learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system |
a comprehensive term for any proceeding in a court of law whereby an individual seeks a legal remedy | a rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society |
a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end | a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature |
a justification for something existing or happening | the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do |
events that provide the generative force that is the origin of something | legal document setting forth rules governing a particular kind of activity |
| the collection of rules imposed by authority |
| the force of policemen and officers |