the learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system | the institution and conduct of legal proceedings against a defendant for criminal behavior |
a rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society | the continuance of something begun with a view to its completion |
a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature | the lawyers acting for the state to put the case against the defendant |
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 | |