adj
Relating to adjudication.
adj
Of or pertaining to an adjudication or to an adjudicator.
adj
Of or pertaining to an adjuration.
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Relating to, or characterised by, advocacy or advocation.
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(Roman Catholicism) A pronouncement by a pope to an assembly of church officials concerning a matter of church policy.
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(religion) Decree; direction; established order or constitution.
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(countable, uncountable) A habit or practice of an author.
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Highly accurate or definitive; treated or worthy of treatment as a scholarly authority
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(US) Those rights which are expressly enumerated in the US Constitution and are considered to be unquestionable, deserved by all people under all circumstances, especially without regard to race, creed, religion, sexual orientation, gender, and disability.
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Alternative form of cuntstitutional [(slang, humorous, derogatory, vulgar, rare) Constitutional (referring to a Constitution).]
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Of or pertaining to decisions.
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The giving out of a decree.
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Alternative form of decree arbitral [(Scotland, law) An award made by an arbiter]
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Pertaining to a decree.
adj
Having the authority of a decree.
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decretory; authoritative
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(rare or obsolete) Pertaining to an authoritative decree or final judgement.
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(uncountable) Orders given in an overbearing manner.
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Of or pertaining to a disquisitor.
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Of, pertaining to, or derived from edicts
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Of, or pertaining to voting or elections; involving a choice between options.
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Serving to enact something, such as a law.
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(dated) Relating to, or appropriate for, courts of law.
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(law, England & Wales, idiomatic) A method of statutory interpretation, whereby a judge will deviate from a literal interpretation of the law to the extent necessary to circumvent obvious absurdities or (sometimes) conclusions repugnant to public policy.
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(international law) The set of basic rights and freedoms that all humans should be guaranteed, including the right to life and liberty, freedom of thought and expression, and equality before the law.
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(historical, Ancient Rome) A prohibition: a legal order issued by a praetor (or, in the provinces, a proconsul) at the request of a claimant and addressed to another person, imposing a requirement either to do something or to abstain from doing something.
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Of or relating to sound judgment; judicious (but see Usage notes).
adj
Pertaining to the methods and infrastructure for enforcing the law.
adj
Creating authoritative legal meaning.
adj
Understanding law; skilled in jurisprudence.
n
(law) The law of nations; international law.
n
Any statement of the relation of acts and conditions to their consequences.
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Operating according to some law or fundamental principle.
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Focusing on the text of written law to the exclusion of the intent of law, elevating strict adherence to law over justice, mercy, grace and common sense.
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Of a person, tending to resort to the law, as one who sues frequently.
adj
(obsolete) Legal; lawyerly; like a lawyer.
n
The test for whether a government action violates the Establishment Clause of the United States' constitution: it does so if it lacks a secular purpose, has its primary effect as promoting or inhibiting religion, or fosters an excessive entanglement of government with religion.
adj
Of or relating to legal judgments made about laws themselves.
adj
Serving to aid; ministering.
n
A situation, by legal privilege or other agreement, in which solely one party (company, cartel etc.) exclusively provides a particular product or service, dominating that market and generally exerting powerful control over it.
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(law) The principle that laws are free to be amended by future legislative majorities.
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Pertaining to a notary or notaries.
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Wishing to gain a certain position, often in politics.
n
(law, US) A judicial test as to whether a US state is bound by the United States Bill of Rights in relation to a specific right claimed by the plaintiff, hinging on whether the due process clauses of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the US Constitution override the immunity which ordinarily applies to states; specifically, the right in question must be "of the very essence of a scheme of ordered liberty" and "deeply rooted in [American] history and tradition" in order to qualify.
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Of or relating to a petition.
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(law) The existence of differing legal systems in a population or area.
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(French politics) A presidential candidate considered to have a good chance of winning an election.
adj
Of or relating to protection.
adj
Relating to (a specific) protocol.
n
a meeting to hear public opinions on any issue; a meeting where members of the public hear the facts about any issue and give their opinions about it.
adj
Having a resemblance to a judicial system or process
n
(law) The process of making something statutory.
n
(historical) A law that attempts to regulate permitted consumption, especially of clothing, food, and luxury expenditures.
adj
Of or pertaining to a testament; testamentary.
n
An appellation given to a person or family to signify either veneration, official position, social rank, the possession of assets or properties, or a professional or academic qualification. See also Category:Titles
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(law) A method of analysis where decisions are based on all available information rather than bright-line rules.
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Something that holds truth according to a particular authority, rather than being independently true. For example under neoliberalism, states use market logic and economic calculus as defining authority for certain decisions.
n
A political right to disapprove of (and thereby stop) the process of a decision, a law etc.
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