a restriction that is insisted upon as a condition for an agreement | the learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system |
a detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work | a rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society |
naming explicitly | a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature |
(patent law) a document drawn up by the applicant for a patent of invention that provides an explicit and detailed description of the nature and use of an invention | 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 |