the learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system | a statement that is emphatic and explicit (spoken or written) |
a rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society | a formal expression by a meeting; agreed to by a vote |
a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature | (law) unsworn statement that can be admitted in evidence in a legal transaction |
the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do | a formal public statement |
legal document setting forth rules governing a particular kind of activity | (contract bridge) the highest bid becomes the contract setting the number of tricks that the bidder must make |
the collection of rules imposed by authority | a statement of taxable goods or of dutiable properties |
the force of policemen and officers | |