the learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system | a defendant's answer or plea denying the truth of the charges against him |
a rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society | renunciation of your own interests in favor of the interests of others |
a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature | the act of refusing to comply (as with a request) |
the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do | the act of asserting that something alleged is not true |
legal document setting forth rules governing a particular kind of activity | (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that denies painful thoughts |
the collection of rules imposed by authority | |
the force of policemen and officers | |