a willful disobedience to or disrespect for the authority of a court or legislative body | the learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system |
a manner that is generally disrespectful and contemptuous | a rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society |
open disrespect for a person or thing | a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature |
lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike | the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do |
| legal document setting forth rules governing a particular kind of activity |
| the collection of rules imposed by authority |
| the force of policemen and officers |