the learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system | a restriction that is insisted upon as a condition for an agreement |
a rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society | a detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work |
a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature | naming explicitly |
the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do | (patent law) a document drawn up by the applicant for a patent of invention that provides an explicit and detailed description of the nature and use of an invention |
legal document setting forth rules governing a particular kind of activity | |
the collection of rules imposed by authority | |
the force of policemen and officers | |