the learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system | an unethical agreement between an attorney and client that the attorney would sue and pay the costs of the client's suit in return for a portion of the damages awarded |
a rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society | |
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 | |