the learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system | the act of reprieving; postponing or remitting punishment |
a rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society | a warrant granting postponement (usually to postpone the execution of the death sentence) |
a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature | an interruption in the intensity or amount of something |
the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do | a (temporary) relief from harm or discomfort |
legal document setting forth rules governing a particular kind of activity | |
the collection of rules imposed by authority | |
the force of policemen and officers | |