the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do | an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of two entities or parts together |
the collection of rules imposed by authority | (usually plural) mutual dealings or connections among persons or groups |
| sexual activity between individuals, especially the insertion of a man's penis into a woman's vagina until orgasm and ejaculation occur |
| (law) the principle that an act done at a later time is deemed by law to have occurred at an earlier time |
| an act of narration |
| a person related by blood or marriage |