the learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system | an official award (as for bravery or service) usually given as formal public statement |
a rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society | a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage |
a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature | a summons that commands the appearance of a party at a proceeding |
the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do | a passage or expression that is quoted or cited |
legal document setting forth rules governing a particular kind of activity | (law) the act of citing (as of spoken words or written passages or legal precedents etc.) |
the collection of rules imposed by authority | |
the force of policemen and officers | |