the means whereby some act is accomplished | the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do |
a device that requires skill for proper use | the collection of rules imposed by authority |
any of various devices or contrivances that can be used to produce musical tones or sounds | |
(law) a document that states some contractual relationship or grants some right | |
the semantic role of the entity (usually inanimate) that the agent uses to perform an action or start a process | |
a person used by another to gain an end | |