the learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system | the proceeding whereby a foreigner is granted citizenship |
a rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society | changing the pronunciation of a borrowed word to agree with the borrowers' phonology |
a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature | the introduction of animals or plants to places where they flourish but are not indigenous |
the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do | the quality of being brought into conformity with nature |
legal document setting forth rules governing a particular kind of activity | |
the collection of rules imposed by authority | |
the force of policemen and officers | |