the learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system | the act of accepting with approval; favorable reception |
a rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society | the appropriation (of ideas or words etc) from another source |
a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature | a legal proceeding that creates a parent-child relation between persons not related by blood; the adopted child is entitled to all privileges belonging to a natural child of the adoptive parents (including the right to inherit) |
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 | |