an act of limiting or restricting (as by regulation) | the learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system |
the quality of being limited or restricted | a rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society |
a principle that limits the extent of something | a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature |
the greatest amount of something that is possible or allowed | the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do |
(law) a time period after which suits cannot be brought | legal document setting forth rules governing a particular kind of activity |
| the collection of rules imposed by authority |
| the force of policemen and officers |