the learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system | the act of conferring legality or sanction or formal warrant |
a rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society | the power or right to give orders or make decisions |
a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature | official permission or approval |
the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do | a document giving an official instruction or command |
legal document setting forth rules governing a particular kind of activity | |
the collection of rules imposed by authority | |
the force of policemen and officers | |