the learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system | a sustained phenomenon or one marked by gradual changes through a series of states |
a rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society | a particular course of action intended to achieve a result |
a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature | a natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant |
the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do | (psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents |
legal document setting forth rules governing a particular kind of activity | a mental process that you are not directly aware of |
the collection of rules imposed by authority | a writ issued by authority of law; usually compels the defendant's attendance in a civil suit; failure to appear results in a default judgment against the defendant |
the force of policemen and officers | |