continuing or remaining in a place or state | the learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system |
(nautical) brace consisting of a heavy rope or wire cable used as a support for a mast or spar | a rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society |
a thin strip of metal or bone that is used to stiffen a garment (e.g. a corset) | a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature |
a judicial order forbidding some action until an event occurs or the order is lifted | the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do |
the state of inactivity following an interruption | legal document setting forth rules governing a particular kind of activity |
| the collection of rules imposed by authority |
| the force of policemen and officers |