the learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system | a prior appropriation of something |
a rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society | the right to purchase something in advance of others |
a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature | the right of a government to seize or appropriate something (as property) |
the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do | the judicial principle asserting the supremacy of federal over state legislation on the same subject |
legal document setting forth rules governing a particular kind of activity | |
the collection of rules imposed by authority | |
the force of policemen and officers | |