the learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system | how much there is or how many there are of something that you can quantify |
a rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society | the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule |
a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature | any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal |
the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do | measuring instrument having a sequence of marks at regular intervals; used as a reference in making measurements |
legal document setting forth rules governing a particular kind of activity | a container of some standard capacity that is used to obtain fixed amounts of a substance |
the collection of rules imposed by authority | musical notation for a repeating pattern of musical beats |
the force of policemen and officers | (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse |
| a statute in draft before it becomes law |
| a basis for comparison; a reference point against which other things can be evaluated |