legal precept
1precept — 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,… …
2legal order — index mittimus, precept, search warrant Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …
3Precept — 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… …
4Canonical 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,… …
5Natural 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 …
6written precept of imprisonment — index mittimus Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …
7Res 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… …
8Presumption — • 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… …
9rule — 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… …
10Essentially 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… …
