an official award (as for bravery or service) usually given as formal public statement | the learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system |
a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage | a rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society |
a summons that commands the appearance of a party at a proceeding | a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature |
a passage or expression that is quoted or cited | the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do |
(law) the act of citing (as of spoken words or written passages or legal precedents etc.) | legal document setting forth rules governing a particular kind of activity |
| the collection of rules imposed by authority |
| the force of policemen and officers |