the rational investigation of questions about existence and knowledge and ethics | the learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system |
a belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school | a rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society |
any personal belief about how to live or how to deal with a situation | a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature |
| 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 |