legal precept

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• precept — I noun axiom, canon, charge, code, command, commandment, decree, dictate, direction, doctrine, dogma, edict, fiat, guide, injunction, instruction, law, legal order, mandate, order, ordinance, praeceptum, praescriptum, prescript, principle,… …   Law dictionary

• legal order — index mittimus, precept, search warrant Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

• Precept — A Precept (from the Latin præcipere , to teach) is a commandment, instruction, or order intended as an authoritative rule of action.ReligionIn religion, precepts are usually commands respecting moral conduct.ChristianityThe term is encountered… …   Wikipedia

• Canonical Precept —     Canonical Precept     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Canonical Precept     (Precept: From the Lat. præceptum from præcipere, to command).     Precept, in its common acceptation, is opposed to counsel, inasmuch as the former imposes an obligation,… …   Catholic encyclopedia

• Natural and legal rights — Inalienable redirects here. For the 2008 film, see InAlienable. For the concept of alienation in property law, see Alienation (property law). Rights Theoretical distinctions …   Wikipedia

• written precept of imprisonment — index mittimus Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

• Res judicata — or res iudicata (RJ), also known as claim preclusion, is the Latin term for a matter [already] judged , and may refer to two concepts: in both civil law and common law legal systems, a case in which there has been a final judgment and is no… …   Wikipedia

• Presumption — • A product of pride, and a vice opposed to the theological virtue of hope • A term signifying a reasonable conjecture concerning something doubtful, drawn from arguments and appearances, which by the force of circumstances can be accepted as a… …   Catholic encyclopedia

• rule — I. noun Etymology: Middle English reule, from Anglo French, from Latin regula straightedge, rule, from regere to keep straight, direct more at right Date: 13th century 1. a. a prescribed guide for conduct or action b. the laws or regulations… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• Essentially contested concept — In a paper delivered to the Aristotelian Society on 12 March 1956, [Published immediately as Gallie (1956a); a later, slightly altered version appears in Gallie (1964).] Walter Bryce Gallie (1912 ndash;1998) introduced the term essentially… …   Wikipedia

• Posse comitatus — Pos se com i*ta tus [L. posse to be able, to have power + LL. comitatus a county, from comes, comitis, a count. See {County}, and {Power}.] [1913 Webster] 1. (Law) The power of the county, or the citizens who may be summoned by the sheriff to… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English