the learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system | the act of submitting; usually surrendering power to another |
a rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society | something (manuscripts or architectural plans and models or estimates or works of art of all genres etc.) submitted for the judgment of others (as in a competition) |
a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature | an agreement between parties in a dispute to abide by the decision of an arbiter |
the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do | a legal document summarizing an agreement between parties in a dispute to abide by the decision of an arbiter |
legal document setting forth rules governing a particular kind of activity | (law) a contention presented by a lawyer to a judge or jury as part of the case he is arguing |
the collection of rules imposed by authority | the feeling of patient, submissive humbleness |
the force of policemen and officers | the condition of having submitted to control by someone or something else |