(law) a tactic for delaying or obstructing legislation by making long speeches | the learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system |
a legislator who gives long speeches in an effort to delay or obstruct legislation that he (or she) opposes | a rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society |
| a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature |
| 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 |