a defendant's answer or plea denying the truth of the charges against him | the learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system |
renunciation of your own interests in favor of the interests of others | a rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society |
the act of refusing to comply (as with a request) | a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature |
the act of asserting that something alleged is not true | the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do |
(psychiatry) a defense mechanism that denies painful thoughts | legal document setting forth rules governing a particular kind of activity |
| the collection of rules imposed by authority |
| the force of policemen and officers |