the learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system | hereditary succession to a title or an office or property |
a rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society | any attribute or immaterial possession that is inherited from ancestors |
a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature | practices that are handed down from the past by tradition |
the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do | that which is inherited; a title or property or estate that passes by law to the heir on the death of the owner |
legal document setting forth rules governing a particular kind of activity | |
the collection of rules imposed by authority | |
the force of policemen and officers | |