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Legal system   /lˈigəl sˈɪstəm/   Listen
Legal system

noun
1.
A system for interpreting and enforcing the laws.





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"Legal system" Quotes from Famous Books



... on the basis of its disfavored content, as such exclusions distort the marketplace of ideas that the state has created in establishing the forum. Cf. Velazquez, 531 U.S. at 544 ("Restricting LSC attorneys in advising their clients and in presenting arguments and analyses to the courts distorts the legal system by altering the traditional role of the attorneys in much the same way broadcast systems or student publication networks were changed in the limited forum cases . . . ."). Thus, we believe that where the state designates a forum for expressive activity and ...
— Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA) Ruling • United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
... of metaphysics and eschatology, as the Brahmins built up the spiritualistic monism of the Vedanta beside the monstrous idolatry of Hinduism, or, to confine our comparisons to the Latin world, as the jurists drew from the traditional customs of primitive tribes the abstract principles of a legal system that governs the most cultivated societies. This religion was no longer like that of ancient Rome, a mere collection of propitiatory and expiatory rites performed by the citizen for the good of the state; it now pretended to offer to all men a world-conception which gave rise ...
— The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism • Franz Cumont


Words linked to "Legal system" :   law, jurisprudence, voting system, tax system, electoral system, bail, system, jury system, patent system


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