the learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system | (law) the determination by a court of competent jurisdiction on matters submitted to it |
a rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society | the act of judging or assessing a person or situation or event |
a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature | the capacity to assess situations or circumstances shrewdly and to draw sound conclusions |
the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do | the cognitive process of reaching a decision or drawing conclusions |
legal document setting forth rules governing a particular kind of activity | the mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations |
the collection of rules imposed by authority | an opinion formed by judging something |
the force of policemen and officers | the legal document stating the reasons for a judicial decision |