the learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system | (law) the act of condemning (as land forfeited for public use) or judging to be unfit for use (as a food product or an unsafe building) |
a rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society | (criminal law) a final judgment of guilty in a criminal case and the punishment that is imposed |
a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature | an expression of strong disapproval; pronouncing as wrong or morally culpable |
the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do | an appeal to some supernatural power to inflict evil on someone or some group |
legal document setting forth rules governing a particular kind of activity | the condition of being strongly disapproved of |
the collection of rules imposed by authority | |
the force of policemen and officers | |