the learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system | a regulator (as a sliding plate) for regulating the flow of air into a furnace or other heating device |
a rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society | an air passage (usually in the floor or a wall of a room) for admitting or excluding heated air from the room |
a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature | a cashbox with an adding machine to register transactions; used in shops to add up the bill |
the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do | (computer science) memory device that is the part of computer memory that has a specific address and that is used to hold information of a specific kind |
legal document setting forth rules governing a particular kind of activity | (music) the timbre that is characteristic of a certain range and manner of production of the human voice or of different pipe organ stops or of different musical instruments |
the collection of rules imposed by authority | an official written record of names or events or transactions |
the force of policemen and officers | a book in which names and transactions are listed |