the learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system | an ecclesiastical censure by the Roman Catholic Church withdrawing certain sacraments and Christian burial from a person or all persons in a particular district |
a rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society | a court order prohibiting a party from doing a certain activity |
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 | |