people who are highly experienced or who have inside information | the learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system |
money bet or invested by experienced gamblers or investors (especially if they have inside information) | a rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society |
(law) compensation in excess of actual damages (a form of punishment awarded in cases of malicious or willful misconduct) | 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 |