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Of or pertaining to the system of rules which a particular country or community recognizes as regulating the actions of its members and which it may enforce by the imposition of penalties.

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issue

Law; Legal

To formally send out or make known.

civil action

Law; Legal

Any lawsuit relating to civil matters and not criminal prosecution.

pro bono

Law; Legal

Done without compensation for the public good: a lawyer's pro bono work. [Latin pr bon (public), for the (public) good : pr, for + bon, ablative of bonum, the good.]

sedition

Law; Legal

In law, sedition is overt conduct, such as speech and organization, that is deemed by the legal authority to tend toward insurrection against the established order. Sedition often ...

testament

Law; Legal

A testament is a legal declaration by which a person, the testator, names one or more persons to manage his/her estate and provides for the transfer of his/her property at death.