(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 learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system |
(criminal law) a final judgment of guilty in a criminal case and the punishment that is imposed | a rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society |
an expression of strong disapproval; pronouncing as wrong or morally culpable | a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature |
an appeal to some supernatural power to inflict evil on someone or some group | the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do |
the condition of being strongly disapproved of | legal document setting forth rules governing a particular kind of activity |
| the collection of rules imposed by authority |
| the force of policemen and officers |