the social act of separating or parting company | the learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system |
the act of dividing or disconnecting | a rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society |
(law) the cessation of cohabitation of man and wife (either by mutual agreement or under a court order) | a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature |
sorting one thing from others | the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do |
the distance between things | legal document setting forth rules governing a particular kind of activity |
coming apart | the collection of rules imposed by authority |
the termination of employment (by resignation or dismissal) | the force of policemen and officers |
the space where a division or parting occurs | |
the state of lacking unity | |