the learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system | something that has been in a family for generations |
a rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society | (law) any property that is considered by law or custom as inseparable from an inheritance is inherited with that inheritance |
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 | |