the learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system | measuring stick consisting of a strip of wood or metal or plastic with a straight edge that is used for drawing straight lines and measuring lengths |
a rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society | a principle or condition that customarily governs behavior |
a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature | something regarded as a normative example |
the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do | a rule or law concerning a natural phenomenon or the function of a complex system |
legal document setting forth rules governing a particular kind of activity | a basic generalization that is accepted as true and that can be used as a basis for reasoning or conduct |
the collection of rules imposed by authority | (mathematics) a standard procedure for solving a class of mathematical problems |
the force of policemen and officers | prescribed guide for conduct or action |
| (linguistics) a rule describing (or prescribing) a linguistic practice |
| directions that define the way a game or sport is to be conducted |
| any one of a systematic body of regulations defining the way of life of members of a religious order |
| dominance or power through legal authority |
| the duration of a monarch's or government's power |