the learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system | the act of absolving or remitting; formal redemption as pronounced by a priest in the sacrament of penance |
a rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society | (law) the act of remitting (especially the referral of a law case to another court) |
a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature | an abatement in intensity or degree (as in the manifestations of a disease) |
the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do | a payment of money sent to a person in another place |
legal document setting forth rules governing a particular kind of activity | |
the collection of rules imposed by authority | |
the force of policemen and officers | |