the learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system | (law) an increase in a beneficiary's share in an estate (as when a co-beneficiary dies or fails to meet some condition or rejects the inheritance) |
a rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society | an increase by natural growth or addition |
a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature | (geology) an increase in land resulting from alluvial deposits or waterborne sediment |
the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do | (biology) growth by addition as by the adhesion of parts or particles |
legal document setting forth rules governing a particular kind of activity | (astronomy) the formation of a celestial object by the effect of gravity pulling together surrounding objects and gases |
the collection of rules imposed by authority | something contributing to growth or increase |
the force of policemen and officers | |