putting a condemned person to death | the learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system |
unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human being | a rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society |
the act of performing; of doing something successfully; using knowledge as distinguished from merely possessing it | a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature |
the act of accomplishing some aim or executing some order | the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do |
a routine court order that attempts to enforce the judgment that has been granted to a plaintiff by authorizing a sheriff to carry it out | legal document setting forth rules governing a particular kind of activity |
(law) the completion of a legal instrument (such as a contract or deed) by signing it (and perhaps sealing and delivering it) so that it becomes legally binding and enforceable | the collection of rules imposed by authority |
(computer science) the process of carrying out an instruction by a computer | the force of policemen and officers |