the act of proving that an instrument purporting to be a will was signed and executed in accord with legal requirements | the learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system |
a judicial certificate saying that a will is genuine and conferring on the executors the power to administer the estate | a rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society |
| 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 |