a statement that is emphatic and explicit (spoken or written) | the learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system |
a formal expression by a meeting; agreed to by a vote | a rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society |
(law) unsworn statement that can be admitted in evidence in a legal transaction | a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature |
a formal public statement | the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do |
(contract bridge) the highest bid becomes the contract setting the number of tricks that the bidder must make | legal document setting forth rules governing a particular kind of activity |
a statement of taxable goods or of dutiable properties | the collection of rules imposed by authority |
| the force of policemen and officers |