All jurisprudence synonyms

noun jurisprudence

• society — an organized group of persons associated together for religious, benevolent, cultural, scientific, political, patriotic, or other purposes.
• act — When you act, you do something for a particular purpose.
• case — A particular case is a particular situation or incident, especially one that you are using as an individual example or instance of something.
• charge — If you charge someone an amount of money, you ask them to pay that amount for something that you have sold to them or done for them.
• charter — A charter is a formal document describing the rights, aims, or principles of an organization or group of people.
• code — A code is a set of rules about how people should behave or about how something must be done.
• constitution — The constitution of a country or organization is the system of laws which formally states people's rights and duties.
• decision — When you make a decision, you choose what should be done or which is the best of various possible actions.
• decree — A decree is an official order or decision, especially one made by the ruler of a country.
• legislation — the act of making or enacting laws.
• mandate — a command or authorization to act in a particular way on a public issue given by the electorate to its representative: The president had a clear mandate to end the war.
• measure — a unit or standard of measurement: weights and measures.
• order — an authoritative direction or instruction; command; mandate.
• precedent — Law. a legal decision or form of proceeding serving as an authoritative rule or pattern in future similar or analogous cases.
• regulation — a law, rule, or other order prescribed by authority, especially to regulate conduct.
• requirement — that which is required; a thing demanded or obligatory: One of the requirements of the job is accuracy.
• ruling — a principle or regulation governing conduct, action, procedure, arrangement, etc.: the rules of chess.
• statute — Law. an enactment made by a legislature and expressed in a formal document. the document in which such an enactment is expressed.
• assize — a sitting of a legislative assembly or administrative body
• behest — an authoritative order or earnest request
• bidding — an order; command (often in the phrases do or follow the bidding of, at someone's bidding)
• bylaw — A bylaw is a law which is made by a local authority and which applies only in their area.
• canon — A canon is a member of the clergy who is on the staff of a cathedral.
• caveat — A caveat is a warning of a specific limitation of something such as information or an agreement.
• command — If someone in authority commands you to do something, they tell you that you must do it.
• commandment — The Ten Commandments are the ten rules of behaviour which, according to the Old Testament of the Bible, people should obey.
• covenant — A covenant is a formal written agreement between two or more people or groups of people which is recognized in law.
• demand — If one thing demands another, the first needs the second in order to happen or be dealt with successfully.
• dictate — If you dictate something, you say or read it aloud for someone else to write down.
• divestiture — the act of divesting.
• edict — a decree issued by a sovereign or other authority. Synonyms: dictum, pronouncement.
• enactment — The process of passing legislation.
• equity — The quality of being fair and impartial.
• garnishment — Law. a warning, served on a third party to hold, subject to the court's direction, money or property belonging to a debtor who is being sued by a creditor. a summons to a third party to appear in litigation pending between a creditor and debtor.
• injunction — Law. a judicial process or order requiring the person or persons to whom it is directed to do a particular act or to refrain from doing a particular act.
• institute — to set up; establish; organize: to institute a government.
• instruction — machine instruction
• notice — an announcement or intimation of something impending; warning: a day's notice.
• ordinance — an authoritative rule or law; a decree or command.
• precept — a commandment or direction given as a rule of action or conduct.
• prescript — prescribed.
• prescription — Medicine/Medical. a direction, usually written, by the physician to the pharmacist for the preparation and use of a medicine or remedy. the medicine prescribed: Take this prescription three times a day.
• subpoena — the usual writ for the summoning of witnesses or the submission of evidence, as records or documents, before a court or other deliberative body.
• summons — an authoritative command, message, or signal by which one is summoned.
• warrant — authorization, sanction, or justification.
• writ — Law. a formal order under seal, issued in the name of a sovereign, government, court, or other competent authority, enjoining the officer or other person to whom it is issued or addressed to do or refrain from some specified act. (in early English law) any formal document in letter form, under seal, and in the sovereign's name.
• decretum — the name given to various collections of canon law, esp that made by the monk Gratian in the 12th century, which forms the first part of the Corpus Juris Canonici
• reg — a male given name, form of Reginald.