a writ from a court commanding police to perform specified acts | the learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system |
a written assurance that some product or service will be provided or will meet certain specifications | a rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society |
formal and explicit approval | a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature |
a type of security issued by a corporation (usually together with a bond or preferred stock) that gives the holder the right to purchase a certain amount of common stock at a stated price | 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 |