hereditary succession to a title or an office or property | the learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system |
any attribute or immaterial possession that is inherited from ancestors | a rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society |
practices that are handed down from the past by tradition | a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature |
that which is inherited; a title or property or estate that passes by law to the heir on the death of the owner | 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 |