legal system: alternatives and connections

A system of rules serving to facilitate the performance of certain actions; a system of principles and rules for attaining a desired e…

To ascertain or determine by mathematical processes, usually by the ordinary rules of arithmetic; to reckon up; to estimate; to comput…

The science or doctrine of dealing with cases of conscience, of resolving questions of right or wrong in conduct, or determining the l…

Any system of rules or regulations relating to one subject; as, the medical code, a system of rules for the regulation of the professi…

act in accordance with someone's rules, commands, or wishes; "He complied with my instructions"; "You must comply or else!"; "Follow t…

Operating with force; compelling; forcing; constraining; resulting from, or enforced by, compulsion.

The fundamental, organic law or principles of government of men, embodied in written documents, or implied in the institutions and usa…

Disobedience of the rules, orders, or process of a court of justice, or of rules or orders of a legislative body; disorderly, contempt…

(biology) the field of science concerned with processes of communication and control (especially the comparison of these processes in…

Any exercise, physical or mental, enforced with regularity and by constant repetition; as, a severe drill in Latin grammar.

Capable of being enforced.

That may be enforced.

To extract or take out from the records of a court, and send up to the court of exchequer to be enforced; -- said of a forfeited recog…

The science of human duty; the body of rules of duty drawn from this science; a particular system of principles and rules concerting d…

An instance serving for illustration of a rule or precept, especially a problem to be solved, or a case to be determined, as an exerci…

Capable of being exercised, employed, or enforced; as, the authority of a magistrate is exercisible within his jurisdiction.

Capable of being explained or made plain to the understanding; capable of being interpreted.

act in accordance with someone's rules, commands, or wishes; "He complied with my instructions"; "You must comply or else!"; "Follow t…