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 | an assumption on which rests the validity or effect of something else |
a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature | (law) an agreement or concession made by parties in a judicial proceeding (or by their attorneys) relating to the business before the court; must be in writing unless they are part of the court record |
the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do | |
legal document setting forth rules governing a particular kind of activity | |
the collection of rules imposed by authority | |
the force of policemen and officers | |