the learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system | the act of making or becoming a single unit |
a rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society | the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes |
a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature | a device on a national flag emblematic of the union of two or more sovereignties (typically in the upper inner corner) |
the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do | the occurrence of a uniting of separate parts |
legal document setting forth rules governing a particular kind of activity | an organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer |
the collection of rules imposed by authority | a political unit formed from previously independent people or organizations |
the force of policemen and officers | a set containing all and only the members of two or more given sets |
| healing process involving the growing together of the edges of a wound or the growing together of broken bones |
| the state of being joined or united or linked |
| the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce) |