a failure to maintain a higher state | the learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system |
turning in the opposite direction | a rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society |
returning to a former state | a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature |
(genetics) a return to a normal phenotype (usually resulting from a second mutation) | the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do |
a reappearance of an earlier characteristic | legal document setting forth rules governing a particular kind of activity |
(law) an interest in an estate that reverts to the grantor (or his heirs) at the end of some period (e.g., the death of the grantee) | the collection of rules imposed by authority |
| the force of policemen and officers |