the arithmetic operation of summing; calculating the sum of two or more numbers | the learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system |
a concluding summary (as in presenting a case before a law court) | a rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society |
the final aggregate | a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature |
(physiology) the process whereby multiple stimuli can produce a response (in a muscle or nerve or other part) that one stimulus alone does not produce | 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 |