an ecclesiastical censure by the Roman Catholic Church withdrawing certain sacraments and Christian burial from a person or all persons in a particular district | the learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system |
a court order prohibiting a party from doing a certain activity | 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 |