(law) the determination by a court of competent jurisdiction on matters submitted to it | the learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system |
the act of judging or assessing a person or situation or event | a rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society |
the capacity to assess situations or circumstances shrewdly and to draw sound conclusions | a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature |
the cognitive process of reaching a decision or drawing conclusions | the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do |
the mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations | legal document setting forth rules governing a particular kind of activity |
an opinion formed by judging something | the collection of rules imposed by authority |
the legal document stating the reasons for a judicial decision | the force of policemen and officers |