the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do | the social act of separating or parting company |
the collection of rules imposed by authority | the act of dividing or disconnecting |
| (law) the cessation of cohabitation of man and wife (either by mutual agreement or under a court order) |
| sorting one thing from others |
| the distance between things |
| coming apart |
| the termination of employment (by resignation or dismissal) |
| the space where a division or parting occurs |
| the state of lacking unity |