the learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system | the rational investigation of questions about existence and knowledge and ethics |
a rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society | a belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school |
a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature | any personal belief about how to live or how to deal with a situation |
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 | |