the learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system | the legal system that allows an accused person to be temporarily released from custody (usually on condition that a sum of money guarantees their appearance at trial) |
a rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society | (criminal law) money that must be forfeited by the bondsman if an accused person fails to appear in court for trial |
a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature | |
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 | |