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 |
an assumption on which rests the validity or effect of something else | a rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society |
(law) an agreement or concession made by parties in a judicial proceeding (or by their attorneys) relating to the business before the court; must be in writing unless they are part of the court record | 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 |