the learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system | a nonverbal reaction |
a rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society | the speech act of replying to a question |
a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature | a statement (either spoken or written) that is made to reply to a question or request or criticism or accusation |
the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do | a statement that solves a problem or explains how to solve the problem |
legal document setting forth rules governing a particular kind of activity | the principal pleading by the defendant in response to plaintiff's complaint; in criminal law it consists of the defendant's plea of `guilty' or `not guilty' (or nolo contendere); in civil law it must contain denials of all allegations in the plaintiff's complaint that the defendant hopes to controvert and it can contain affirmative defenses or counterclaims |
the collection of rules imposed by authority | |
the force of policemen and officers | |