n.
1.legal document setting forth rules governing a particular kind of activity
2.the collection of rules imposed by authority
3.a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature
4.a rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society
5.the learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system
6.the force of policemen and officers
7.the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do
Idiom of the Day
ramble on about (someone or something)
to talk aimlessly and endlessly about someone or something
My friend spent the evening rambling on about his problems at work.
