(law) the act of condemning (as land forfeited for public use) or judging to be unfit for use (as a food product or an unsafe building) | the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do |
(criminal law) a final judgment of guilty in a criminal case and the punishment that is imposed | the collection of rules imposed by authority |
an expression of strong disapproval; pronouncing as wrong or morally culpable | |
an appeal to some supernatural power to inflict evil on someone or some group | |
the condition of being strongly disapproved of | |