the act of absolving or remitting; formal redemption as pronounced by a priest in the sacrament of penance | the learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system |
(law) the act of remitting (especially the referral of a law case to another court) | a rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society |
an abatement in intensity or degree (as in the manifestations of a disease) | a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature |
a payment of money sent to a person in another place | 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 |