a strong wooden or metal post with a point at one end so it can be driven into the ground | the learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system |
instrument of execution consisting of a vertical post that a victim is tied to for burning | a rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society |
a pole or stake set up to mark something (as the start or end of a race track) | a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature |
the money risked on a gamble | the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do |
(law) a right or legal share of something; a financial involvement with something | legal document setting forth rules governing a particular kind of activity |
| the collection of rules imposed by authority |
| the force of policemen and officers |