an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of two entities or parts together | the learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system |
(usually plural) mutual dealings or connections among persons or groups | a rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society |
sexual activity between individuals, especially the insertion of a man's penis into a woman's vagina until orgasm and ejaculation occur | a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature |
(law) the principle that an act done at a later time is deemed by law to have occurred at an earlier time | the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do |
an act of narration | legal document setting forth rules governing a particular kind of activity |
a person related by blood or marriage | the collection of rules imposed by authority |
| the force of policemen and officers |