the learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system | (law) the disqualification of a judge or jury by reason of prejudice or conflict of interest; a judge can be recused by objections of either party or judges can disqualify themselves |
a rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society | (law) an objection grounded on the judge's relationship to one of the parties |
a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature | |
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 | |