how much there is or how many there are of something that you can quantify | the learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system |
the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule | a rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society |
any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal | a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature |
measuring instrument having a sequence of marks at regular intervals; used as a reference in making measurements | the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do |
a container of some standard capacity that is used to obtain fixed amounts of a substance | legal document setting forth rules governing a particular kind of activity |
musical notation for a repeating pattern of musical beats | the collection of rules imposed by authority |
(prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse | the force of policemen and officers |
a statute in draft before it becomes law | |
a basis for comparison; a reference point against which other things can be evaluated | |